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Revision Rhinoplasty & Weight Loss

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"A woman pushes away fatty food in favor of fruit"According to the British Medical Journal, people lose weight just by breathing. And, the nose plays an important role.

But in too many nose job cases – somewhere between five and 25 percent in the United States – a rhinoplasty goes bad, sometimes leaving patients with breathing problems.

Or, a person has an accident and the septum is injured, knocking that thin piece of bone and cartilage between the nostrils into — and blocking — a breathing channel.

Then, either revision rhinoplasty or septoplasty is needed to arrive at healthy breathing.  Septoplasty surgically replaces the septum to its proper position.

          (Read more about revision rhinoplasty and septoplasty.)

But what does all this nose business have to do with weight loss?

According to the British Medical Journal, you lose weight just by healthy breathing.

We come by this knowledge, thanks to a couple of Australian researchers who wanted to answer the eternal question: where does weight go once lost?

Short answer: out your nose.

Australians Ruben Meerman and Andrew Brown at the University of New South Wales declared in the Christmas, 2015 British Medical Journal that every breath you exhale carries a little body fat.

Really! The part your nose and clear breathing – exhaling as well as inhaling — plays in weight loss is pretty important, albeit one of the lesser functions of the nose.

Ruben Meerman, a researcher and Professor Andrew J. Brown studied exhaled breath and found each exhalation carries water weight and carbon atoms taken from fat cells.

The duo’s calculations found that when, say, 22 pounds of fat are lost, 18.5 pounds exit your body as exhaled carbon dioxide and water vapor.

Want to hear something else amazing about weight loss? Just as the nose serves the lungs with filtered air, the researchers write: “Our calculations reveal that the lungs are the primary excretory organ for fat.”

False assumptions about how humans lose weight include the idea that excess pounds are converted to energy or heat.

What really happens: Fat breaks down into carbon, oxygen and hydrogen. The last two, oxygen and hydrogen, combine to make water. And it all exits the nose.

So exercise helps people lose weight by increasing breathing. The more breaths you take, the more carbon you lose. So – take heart serious weight losers – you lose a little weight just hanging out or even sleeping.

But here’s the hard part: we don’t really need a lot of food.

Consider a tasty muffin you might consume between breakfast and lunch: A 3.5 ounce muffin equals about one-fifth of the average person’s daily needs for energy.

So physical activity to lose excess pounds is trumped by small amounts of excess chow.

Bottom line:  losing weight is a process governed by eating less, moving much more and having healthy breathing.

     (Read the British article.)


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