TikTok can sometimes seem like a bottomless pit. popularized as short video social networkas soon as dogs, celebrities and thongs can appear as nutritional advice.
In the first three examples, someone is rarely harmed, but when nutritional advice appears that talks about losing weight, losing weight or keeping an eye on extra kilos, it is convenient to listen a little and see if it is a ghost, a lie, a hoax or a a little filthy certainty.
This is what happens with one of the latest fashions that has gone viral through this social network of Chinese origin: consuming apple cider vinegar to stop the glucose spike. Explained by the tiktokera Putamen_t, also a scientific disseminator specialized in Biology, Neuroscience and Health and author of the scientific-themed work This book will make you live longer (or at least better) is partly right.
For it talk about acetic acid of apple cider vinegar, of which there are certain tiktokeras tendencies that aim to consume a shot of this vinegar, slightly diluted in water, to be able to stop the glycemic peak that would mean ingesting complex carbohydrates such as cereals, pasta or potatoes.
The ‘trick’ is that acetic acid inhibits the production of alpha amylasewhich is the enzyme that is responsible for breaking down complex carbohydrate chains —the polysaccharides of those ingredients— into simple carbohydrates such as glucose.
This allows the glycemic peak when ingesting this type of product to be lower and therefore pass less glucose into the blood. The point is that this does not mean that we are going to gain less weight or that it is a trick to lose weight, since the potential of apple cider vinegar for this to happen is very low.
yes there can be one some weight loss, but it is very limited, as several studies have shown. In any case, it is a certainty that in prediabetic patients or with a certain resistance to insulin, the consumption of vinegars —any acetic acid will suffice— will limit postprandial glycemia, that is, the blood glucose level after the meal.
As is evident and as the tiktoktera explains, we don’t need to drink shots of vinegar to obtain these benefits, but we can resort to it when making a vinaigrette or seasoning our food, without having to go through the bad —and pernicious— drink of drinking vinegar.
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Why pernicious? Well, because in people who suffer gastritis, esophageal reflux, heartburn and various gastrointestinal discomforts could mean worsening these conditions due to its acidic nature, something that also happens with products such as tomato or orange juice.
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