Water in the Morning Increases Metabolism?

Nutrition
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My gym has a daily tip board where they put up tips for beginners. Usually it’s fairly decent stuff; pro-squatting/dl’ing, etc. Yesterday’s gave me pause: “Drinking 16 oz. of water when you first wake up increases the efficiency of your metabolism by 23-25%”.

WTF? Anyone know what the hell this means?

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Random percentages for the win.

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[quote]AccipiterQ wrote:
My gym has a daily tip board where they put up tips for beginners. Usually it’s fairly decent stuff; pro-squatting/dl’ing, etc. Yesterday’s gave me pause: “Drinking 16 oz. of water when you first wake up increases the efficiency of your metabolism by 23-25%”.

WTF? Anyone know what the hell this means? [/quote]
I think efficiency is the key word here. It won’t raise your metabolism by 23-25% I can tell you that. But yes, It may very well make it more efficient. You do expend a few calories digesting water so maybe it has to do with giving your system a kick start after a 6-8hr fast. Just a guess!

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[quote]AccipiterQ wrote:
My gym has a daily tip board where they put up tips for beginners. Usually it’s fairly decent stuff; pro-squatting/dl’ing, etc. Yesterday’s gave me pause: “Drinking 16 oz. of water when you first wake up increases the efficiency of your metabolism by 23-25%”.

WTF? Anyone know what the hell this means? [/quote]

This is straight out of a Men’s Health Magazine, I remember reading it about 2 years ago when I actually wasted my money on those.

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I read an estimate that drinking a gallon of COLD water a day might burn an extra 100 calories.

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That would seem to make sense, after all Winter is when the body burns more calories trying to keep warm.

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So I guess it’s like a Zinc supplementation issue; not so much enhanced performance past where it is, but restoring it to where it should be.

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…or a foam rolling issue, prehab issue, stretching issue, or a fish oil issue, or a higher protein diet issue, or a lower transfat diet issue, etc. etc. :stuck_out_tongue: Amazing how the body responds when you give it what IT wants.

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lol a better question is what is an efficient metabolism?

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[quote]Airtruth wrote:
lol a better question is what is an efficient metabolism?[/quote]
When you metabolize food/energy…efficiently?
What kind of answer are you looking for here?

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i have heard that also, mine went something like this
“drinking a glass of water upon waking up, flushes out your system”

any thoughts on that?