Can sweat-inducing soup help you lose weight? Helps increase basal metabolic rate

The weather has been getting colder recently, and it’s the season for eating hot pot and taking a hot spring bath. You will unknowingly accumulate fat on your body, but it is very difficult to exercise and lose weight in the lazy winter. Therefore, hot spring baths have become popular in Japan. There are "sweat-inducing hot springs" that claim to make the body sweat profusely and burn fat, and the effect is equivalent to exercise. But in fact, most of them are not very effective in burning fat, but they help to improve the body's basal metabolism, indirectly increasing the chances of successful weight loss.

Spicy ingredients stimulate perspiration

The "sweat-inducing soup" sold in drugstores and online claims that soaking in it for 20 minutes is equivalent to 2 hours of exercise and can burn 220 to 300 calories. The ingredients in it include ginger, sansho, and chili peppers. After the soup powder is soaked in hot water, your skin may feel a slight tingling or burning sensation when it first comes into contact with the hot water. Then after 10 minutes, you will start to sweat and feel hot all over, thus achieving the purpose of sweating.

Taking a hot bath can help improve your basal metabolism

Excessive sweating will cause the body to lose water quickly, so when you weigh yourself after taking a bath, you can immediately find that you have lost weight; but in fact, what is lost is water, so whether it is a normal bath or adding this "sweat-boosting soup" bath toner, it will not be very effective in burning fat.

However, taking a bath does have a positive effect on weight loss, because the blood circulation is good and the body's basal metabolic rate will also increase; the basal metabolic rate is the amount of calories the body will consume on its own when a person is completely inactive, so increasing the basal metabolic rate can increase the calories a person consumes in a day, which naturally helps to achieve weight loss goals.

Homemade ginger baths have a similar effect

A small packet of hot spring bath additives that have become popular in Taiwan from Japan is very expensive, and in fact they only have the effect of accelerating metabolism and promoting perspiration. Therefore, you can also try to DIY 30cc of ginger juice stewed with old ginger, pour it into a bathtub with hot water at about 40 degrees Celsius, and soak for about 15 to 20 minutes. This can also achieve the benefits of accelerating blood circulation and activating peripheral blood vessels.

Do not try sweat-inducing soup if you have sensitive skin

In the past, there have been cases where the use of sweat-inducing bath additives containing tangerine peel caused stinging and hot sensations on the skin, just like the feeling of eating spicy hot pot, and even caused itching, redness and swelling of the skin. Therefore, before using the sweat-inducing soup, it is best to try it locally on your hands or feet first. After making sure your skin can accept it, you can soak your whole body to avoid damaging your skin while failing to lose weight.

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