Apple cider vinegar for weight management

Re:Apple cider vinegar for weight management by alexjplant on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @12:05AM (#39688006)

I drink a mixture of water, raw apple cider vinegar, lemon juice, and Stevia extract occasionally because I like the taste of tart apple juice but don't want the sugar that comes with such. I haven't noticed an appreciable loss of fat - I'd live to know what the hypothetical mechanism of action for this is.

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Re:Apple cider vinegar for weight management by red-iron-pine on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @09:52AM (#39691220)

marketing. that's the mechanism of action.

maybe, long shot maybe, it has something to do with vinegar bacteria getting into the gut, but in that case a probiotic style pill should do the same thing.

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Re:Apple cider vinegar for weight management by voisin on Thursday March 14, 2024 @09:35AM (#39703803)

You’re suggesting that “Big Apple Cider Vinegar” put this study out as marketing?

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Re:Apple cider vinegar for weight management by vfvthunter on Sunday March 17, 2024 @05:52PM (#39738375)

The effect here seems to have little to do with gut microbiota: acetic acid itself induces the liver to stop making fats (lipogenesis) and start liberating fats into the blood (lipolysis). AcOH also by itself seems to decrease insulin resistance/increase insulin sensitivity, as well as downregulate gluconeogenesis. Several of the other studies in the bibliography confirmed this, and a couple even did tissue biopsies pre during and post to assess for changes in genetic expression of things like AMPK.

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