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Something you should know. Fascinating intel. The world's top experts. And practical advice you can use in your life today. Something you should know. With Mike Karothers.

Hello. We start today with a question I'm almost certain you wondered about. And that is, when you lose weight, where does the fat go?

It's a good question. And in fact, in a survey of 150 health professionals, including doctors, dieticians and personal trainers, they almost all got it wrong.

The most common misconception by far was that the fat is converted to energy. The problem with that theory is that it violates the law of conservation of matter, which all chemical reactions must obey.

Some respondents thought the fat turned into muscle, which is impossible. And others assumed it escaped via the colon. Only three out of the 150 health professionals gave the right answer, which means 98% of the health professionals in the survey could not explain how weight loss works.

So if the fat is not converted to energy or muscle or comes out as human waste, where does the fat go? Well, the correct answer is that fat is converted to carbon dioxide and water.

You exhale the carbon dioxide and the water mixes into your circulation until it's lost as urine or sweat.

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