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I encourage everyone to read the "physiology" chapter at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adipose_tissue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adipose_tissue TLDR: Blood
by DenisM 11y ago
I encourage everyone to read the "physiology" chapter at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adipose_tissue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adipose_tissue
TLDR: Blood sugar spikes above certain level are toxic, so the body responds with an emergency action of stashing the sugar wherever possible, including muscle, liver, and fat tissue. The former two are rather limited in their capacity, while the latter is unlimited. Ongoing elevated levels of sugars in the bloodstream is an ongoing cleanup job for the fat cells, and they never get aground to release the accumulated energy back into circulation.
At the "hardware" level, that's all there is to obesity - overabundance of quick carbs (sugars, flour, starch).
- gypsy_boots 11y agoWhich is similarly why a diet high in carbohydrates can lead to your body storing more fat. It's easier for your body to turn the carbohydrates into energy than it is to turn the fat into energy. So when it gets both, it stores the fat for leaner times (less energy abundance) and turns the carbs into glucose for energy. It seems like the more we learn about high fat low carb diets, the more it seems that our body was built to use fat as its main energy source.
- great_kraken 11y agoIndeed. A basic understanding of the science is all you need. However, the main narrative is that the body is a simply a black box that obeys solely the laws of thermodynamics.