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What Are Pyruvate Supplements?

What Are Pyruvate Supplements? (0:47)

Pyruvate is naturally made in our body when sugar is broken down for energy; it also appears to divert fat in the body during this process, so that fat is burned first. Watch Eva Selhub, MD, describe how pyruvate works in the body.

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Well, pyruvate first of all is naturally made in our body when sugar broken down for energy, and again pyruvate does many different things but it helps us make energy. What it does a fact, is the diverts that into it a sort of the upper part of the chain for fat burning for energy making so usually we use sugar or protein first to make energy, sad it's the last and pyruvate things to divert it so that, so it come up higher on that chain for fat burning and so we burn fat faster.

Also, it seems to increase a rest in metabolism. So you could be sitting around doing nothing and you could be melting fat. Again I don't advocate that, I do recommend moving around but it seems to stand up on its own.