Health Claims

When your body is in a weird energy state—like being super tired or eating too much sugar—it can make you react more strongly to stress, and if this goes on too long, stress starts messing up your metabolism too, creating a bad cycle.

Mechanistic

When your body is under long-term stress, it releases a hormone called cortisol that breaks down muscle and ramps up blood sugar in a way that together makes your metabolism worse over time.

Mechanistic

When you're stressed for a long time, your body keeps pumping out a stress hormone called cortisol, which messes with how your body uses sugar and protein—making it harder for insulin to work properly and raising your risk for metabolic problems like type 2 diabetes.

Mechanistic

Drinking green tea extract can help your body burn more fat over a full day—even if you remove the caffeine from it.

Causal

When you're constantly stressed but not exercising, your body releases stress and sugar-regulating hormones that together make you store more fat around your belly.

Mechanistic

Short bursts of super-hard exercise, like sprinting or HIIT, burn more belly fat than jogging at the same pace the whole time—because your body goes into overdrive, releases more fat-burning hormones, and keeps burning calories even after you stop.

Mechanistic

After you fast, when your body releases both insulin and cortisol at the same time, it tells your body to store more fat and stop burning it—like hitting the pause button on fat loss.

Mechanistic

When your body is low on energy and can't switch easily to burning fat, it starts breaking down muscle instead — even though it would be better off burning fat.

Mechanistic

When you eat vinegar, your body turns it into a substance called acetate, which tricks your cells into thinking they're low on energy—so they start burning fat for fuel instead.

Mechanistic

When you fast and drink green tea high in EGCG, your body burns fat better because it keeps a fat-burning hormone (epinephrine) active longer and lowers insulin, which normally blocks fat burning.

Mechanistic

When there's a lot of insulin in your blood, it shuts down the body’s ability to break down fat even when epinephrine (the 'fight or flight' hormone) tries to tell it to.

Mechanistic

The green tea compound EGCG slows down a body enzyme that normally breaks down adrenaline, so your adrenaline sticks around longer and might keep you feeling more alert.

Mechanistic

The fat around your organs has four times more receptors that respond to stress hormones than the fat under your skin — which might explain why belly fat is harder to lose when you're stressed.

Quantitative

When you drink green tea, the caffeine and natural plant compounds work together to help your body burn more calories and fat—something neither one can do by itself.

Mechanistic

Drinking green tea extract doesn’t make your body break down more muscle or protein, because your pee doesn’t show more nitrogen waste — so it’s not hurting your muscles.

Mechanistic

Drinking green tea extract might turn on your body’s ‘fight or flight’ system a bit more, causing you to burn more calories and fat — and this is shown by a 40% rise in a stress-related chemical in your urine.

Mechanistic

Drinking green tea might help you burn more calories and fat, but it’s not because of the caffeine—it’s something else in the tea, since just taking the same amount of caffeine by itself doesn’t do anything noticeable.

Mechanistic

Drinking one cup of green tea extract with a bit of caffeine and a special compound called EGCG can help your body burn slightly more calories and more fat throughout the day—without changing how it handles protein.

Causal

Eating lots of full-fat dairy like cheese, butter, or cream seems to be linked to a higher chance of dying early, no matter which kind you choose—so it’s probably not the dairy itself, but something common in all of them, like saturated fat or hormones, that’s causing the problem.

Correlational

Eating dairy doesn’t seem to make breast cancer come back or kill more women from breast cancer, but it might make people more likely to die from other causes — and that’s probably because of the fat in dairy, not dairy itself.

Correlational

For women who’ve had breast cancer, eating a lot of full-fat dairy like whole milk, cheese, or butter might raise their risk of dying from other health problems like heart disease or diabetes—not from the cancer coming back.

Correlational

If you’ve had early-stage breast cancer, switching from full-fat dairy like whole milk or cheese to low-fat versions won’t make your cancer come back or shorten your life — so you don’t need to stress about this change.

Correlational

If you've had early-stage breast cancer and eat a lot of full-fat dairy like whole milk or cheese every day, you might be more likely to die from breast cancer or other causes later on compared to people who eat very little of it.

Correlational

Drinking a lot of whole milk might raise your risk of dying from cancer, and the more you drink, the higher the risk — especially if you drink a lot.

Correlational