You Breathe Out Most Fat

The lungs perform the vast majority of our body’s excretion, so most of the weight we lose each day actually leaves through our breath, not our butts. Exhaled carbon dioxide accounts for the primary route by which fat mass exits the body as it is metabolized. As triglycerides are broken down, the carbon in the fat combines with oxygen to form CO₂, which we then breathe out.

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