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The short answer: Under certain conditions, yes. ✅
Our favorite drug, coffee, contains two interesting ingredients that can help with personal weight management: caffeine and bitter substances, especially bitter polyphenols.
1. Caffeine increases basal metabolic rate in the short term, meaning the body burns 3-11% more calories, at least for a few hours. 🔥 It also promotes lipolysis, i.e. the breakdown of body fat into individual fatty acids, which the cells can then use as energy when we need this released energy. ⚡️ Caffeine also has a performance-enhancing effect, which can help us do more intensive training sessions and thus promote muscle building. 🏋️♀️ Anyone who has more muscle mass has the advantage of burning more calories both when moving and at rest than someone with the same body weight but less muscle mass. Muscles help to stay slim and coffee can also help when we do sports.💪
2. Bitter polyphenols in coffee in turn support the growth of beneficial intestinal bacteria, which interestingly also play a role in regulating our metabolism and our body weight. 🦠 In addition, polyphenols can help reduce chronic inflammation, which is often associated with obesity. 🛡️
However, polyphenols are also able to stimulate the so-called brown fatty tissue in our body and partially transform white fatty tissue into brownish/beige fatty tissue. Brown and beige fatty tissue has the special property that it radiates abundant energy in the form of heat and in this way we consume additional calories 🌡️
Important: More coffee is not necessarily associated with greater effects! 🚨 This means you shouldn't have more than 4 cups a day (max. 400 mg of caffeine) and the best time for coffee is proven to be in the morning. 🕗 Drinking too much or too late in the day leads to increased levels of stress hormones and affects our quality of sleep 💤 – both are unfavorable because stress and poor sleep then have exactly the opposite effect, i.e. they promote weight gain (for more information, see the next article about cortisol and weight gain).
