Over-Dieting: A Dangerous Diet

Dieting commonly reaches the optimal fat burning. One of the most important element in optimal diet processes is the effect on hormone level. Hormone is the most important chemical substance produced by physical substance. High-low hormone levels influence building or damaging muscles.

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Our body naturally produce various hormones which are meaningful for recovering muscles, growth, and recovery. Dieting to reduce fat in the physical substance, if it’s not observed carefully, will decrease growing hormone level and affect less muscle density.

The big problems resulted from over-dieting are weak tyroid function, less testosteron hormone level, weak physical immune system, and decreasing leptin level in physical substance.

Therefore, it’s required the best way for diet. In order to avoid the negative conditions and maintain muscle mass while burning fat.

1. Problems Emerged From Over-dieting

a. Weak tyroid function

Tyroid hormone specifically helps to manage how much calorie burnt by the body every day. This hormone also affects muscle growth by accelerating or reducing protein synthesis. Strict over-dieting causes negative effect because it will reduce drastically tyroid hormone. In effect, body will burn less calorie. Although you eat in a small portion, low tyroid body cannot effectively burn fat. Reducing tyroid level causes the reducing metabolism level and negatively reduces physical ability for burning fat.

b. Less testosteron hormone

Reducing calorie drastically and greatly correlated with reducing testosteron hormone production (hormone that helps the process of muscle growht) causes muscle mass difficult to maintain. Healthy testosteron hormone level is valuable to help fat burning process through two mechanisms:

Healthy testosteron hormone increases the amount of beta receptor in physical substance (this receptor is provided in fat cells and helps to destroy stored fat).

Testosteron also blocks lipoprotein lipase activity (an enzim absorbing fat from blood circulation and store it) around fat cells.The most unwanted effect of over-dieting is to reduce testosteron hormone levels.

c. Weak physical immune system

Physical immune system plays role as security system to protect your body from illness, bacteria, virus, and anything that damage physical substance. Over-dieting caused by strong over-calorie reducing in long-term will result a negative effect in physical immune system.

Weak physical immune system gives directly negative effect to physical ability in maintaining muscles. The weak immune function also results cortisol increasing in which it’s resulted from stress or illness. This hormone will damage muscles.