Staying in the mountains helps with weight loss

Leptin reduces the desire for food, and it encourages lower concentration of oxygen at altitude and you will therefore staying in the mountains lose some decagram

 The high altitude helps fat people to lose weight more easily, the study physicians in Germany. Medical team Dr Floriana Lipla, the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich, studied the effect of a seven-day stayon the mountain 2.650 meters high, with an overly obese person, on average, about 50 years old.

In addition to climate change, respondents were not subjected to any special regime in relation to diet, habits and physical activity.

However, after only seven days it was established that all persons have lost a little weight on, as well as reduced food intake and decreased blood pressure. The positive effects lasted for another month after the person returned home.

As a reason for it, experts said a lower concentration of oxygen at high altitudes, which stimulates the secretion of the hormone leptin, which reduces the desire for food.

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