Should I do morning exercise first or eat breakfast first?

Many friends are accustomed to doing morning exercises immediately after waking up in the morning. Moderate physical exercise every day can effectively enhance the body's immune ability, and it will also have a certain preventive and therapeutic effect on many cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. However, you should also try to be scientific when exercising. The following editor will introduce whether it is better to eat breakfast before or after exercise every morning.

Breakfast is a must, but when to eat it is important

In this regard, Professor Zhou Jie, director of the Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery at the Nanfang Hospital of Southern Medical University, said that first of all, it should be made clear that breakfast must be eaten regardless of whether you do morning exercises or not, but the time to eat it is important. Zhou Jie said that when a person is on an empty stomach in the morning, the bile in the gallbladder has been stored for about 12 hours overnight, making the gallbladder full, with high pressure and a high saturation of cholesterol in the bile. When you eat breakfast normally, the gallbladder contracts, causing cholesterol to be excreted along with the bile. At the same time, food stimulates bile secretion, causing the cholesterol saturation in the remaining bile in the gallbladder to decrease, making it difficult for stones to form.

If you skip breakfast, your gallbladder will be full for a long time due to fasting, which can easily induce chronic cholecystitis. The bile in the gallbladder will be stored for too long, causing oversaturation of cholesterol in the bile, which in turn causes cholesterol deposition and gradually forms stones.

In addition, after a night's sleep, the human body loses a lot of water. When people sleep, their skin and respiratory tract lose about 20 to 35 grams of water per hour. Combined with the excretion of urine, the body will be in a relatively dehydrated state. If you don't have the habit of drinking water in the morning, your blood will become thicker and flow more slowly, making it easy to form blood clots. This will lead to a significant decrease in blood volume, discomfort such as chest tightness, palpitations, dizziness, and may even cause myocardial infarction.

For the sake of health, Zhou Jie recommends that friends drink a large glass of warm water as soon as possible after getting up. At this time, the intestinal mucosa can quickly absorb water into the blood circulation, effectively increasing blood volume, diluting blood, reducing blood viscosity, and promoting blood circulation, thereby preventing angina pectoris, myocardial infarction, cerebral hemorrhage, cerebral thrombosis, etc.

After getting up early and drinking water, you should wait for a while before exercising. This will help clear metabolic products from the digestive tract, accelerate the excretion of toxins in the body, and relieve constipation, a common problem among the elderly.

Exercising immediately after breakfast is likely to cause stomach pain, stomach cramps and other problems. Therefore, it is best to drink a glass of warm water after getting up, then eat a proper breakfast, and rest for about half an hour before exercising. At this time, moderate exercise can effectively enhance metabolism, which is very beneficial for both weight loss and fitness.