As you know, in the fight against excess weight, women are ready to go to great lengths. The “range” of ways to lose weight is not limited to diets and sports. A variety of medications are used, not necessarily intended for weight loss. Many, for example, believe that you can successfully lose weight with the help of activated carbon.
Activated carbon is produced from organic carbon-containing raw materials (such as charcoal) by activation. At this stage, the pores that are in the closed state in the feedstock are opened. The consequence of this is the porous structure of the finished activated carbon, as well as the fact that it is an effective sorbent, that is, when ingested, harmful substances are bound and removed from the body. This property of coal is used to combat various poisoning.
Sometimes women, instead of using activated charcoal to fight poisoning, use it to lose weight. There are two schemes of weight loss with the help of activated carbon.
According to the first scheme, for weight loss, you should drink 10 tablets of activated charcoal a day, on an empty stomach, breaking the tablets into three doses.
According to the second scheme, you need to take one tablet of coal per 10 kilograms of weight before eating (7 tablets at a time, maximum). It is recommended to start with three tablets, increasing the dose gradually, so that the body gets used to the new drug. The weight loss course lasts for 10 days, after which it is necessary to take a break of the same duration. Then you can repeat the course.
We told you what there are schemes for losing weight with the help of activated carbon. Let’s see if you can really use it to lose weight.
How does coal affect body weight? No way. All it can do is clear your intestines and remove toxins from your body. Where, then, does the weight loss effect come from? The answer is simple. Usually, women who lose weight with the help of active charcoal, drink a lot of water, drinking pills, and, as a result, begin to eat less. So if you reduce the amount of food consumed and drink two liters of water a day for 10 days, you can lose weight without any coal.
But excessive fascination with this drug can lead to unpleasant consequences. After all, activated carbon is all the same as absorbing it. Remember that with prolonged use, charcoal, along with toxins, begins to remove nutrients, as well as vitamins and trace elements from the body. This is fraught with beriberi for a healthy person, and if you have health problems, then the problems can be more serious. Thus, activated charcoal easily removes calcium and potassium from the body, and for heart patients, a violation of the potassium-calcium balance in the body can be fatal.
In addition, when taking activated charcoal for a long time, the normal functioning of the intestine is disrupted. Activated carbon (as well as other artificial sorbents) do not stimulate its peristalsis. And in the event that you abuse activated carbon, your intestines will stop contracting normally, and this will most likely lead to dyspepsia, constipation or diarrhea.
Do not forget also that activated charcoal is a medicinal product, and it, like any other medicinal product, has side effects and contraindications. Among the contraindications-gastric bleeding, ulcerative lesions of the gastrointestinal tract and others. The side effects are described above.
So do not rely on the magical properties of this drug. After all, it is unlikely to lose weight with the help of activated charcoal without harm to the body. The only thing for which you can use it without hesitation is to clean the body, here it is an indispensable assistant. Although do not forget about other ways to clean the body, more gentle. For example, a natural sorbent is fiber, it is found in vegetables, fruits, grain bread, cereals. It not only absorbs harmful substances, but also is a source of nutrients and vitamins for the body, stimulates the work of the intestines. Foods rich in fiber are included in the diet of all kinds of diets (for example, the Kim Protasov Diet or the Dukan Diet). So a balanced diet that is rich in fiber, together with exercise for weight loss, is much more effective than activated charcoal.