'According toAsiaOne, a recent study has found thatcrying, especially the ones with all the feels and heavy emotions, can help you lose weight.This is because the hormones from emotional crying helps heighten the cortisol level, and this happens when you have bottled-up emotions.Yes, all those feels that you usually suppress and keep inside!
There, there. Make sure you let it all out, k?
In fact, stress-induced tears were discovered to have the ability ofgetting rid of several types of toxic substances from the body,which is why biochemist William Frey has come to a conclusion that crying helps remove those toxic substances that tend to build up when humans are emotionally stressed.
Moreover, it’s not like our bodies can continue storing more fat when we’re shedding those tears, because all the stressful hormones that were suppressed would’ve already been released through this excretory process.
That said, the study pointed out that you can only reap these benefits if you cry tears that are triggered by real emotions. FYI, there are 3 types of tears, namely;
- Basal tears – aka “basic functional tears” that keep our peepers moist
- Reflex tears – aka “irritation tears” that we involuntarily shed due to environmental stressors like smoke and wind
- Psychic tears – aka tears linked to our true feelings and human emotions
Hence, only Psychic tears that stream down our faces are said to have the “losing weight” effect. Meanwhile, it looks like there is even a specific time frame to maximise this effect because scientists have apparentlyadvised crying anytime from 7pm to 10pm, citing that this is the best timeto sob over your favourite rom-coms or films with sad endings.' - via NEWSLY