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This is no news, really; in fact, we were even taught this part in basic metabolism in biology class in 7th grade. In the morning, the body has depleted its res

This is no news, really; in fact, we were even taught this part in basic metabolism in biology class in 7th grade. In the morning, the body has depleted its reserve of "immediate energy" in the blood stream and tissue - glycogen, mostly, assuming you have a carbohydrate-rich diet - and will instead have to source energy by instantly burning your fat deposits if you call upon the body to do so by increasing your heart rate and breathing etc. (read: exercise - even a 30 minute walk will do the trick). This is called lipolysis, btw., and is a fundamental part of the human metabolical system. Remember: the human body is primarily a FAT-BURNING MACHINE. add.: Someone sitting next to me as I wrote this asked me, "how long ago was 7th grade?", as a reference of how "re-inventive" this study was. 7th grade was 17 years ago.

eru 16y ago
> the human body is primarily a FAT-BURNING MACHINE. How would our metabolism have to be different for you to come to a different conclusion? (I just want to know, how strong your statement is.)
- hackermom 16y ago
  Lipolysis is the inherit, main metabolical function of our liver and muscle cells. We cannot make use of monosaccharids without "switching" our cells into another mode. This is done by the pancreas secreting a hormone, insulin, into our blood stream; the hormone signals to our cells to stop burning fat and just store it instead, in order to focus on processing the sugar in the blood to prevent a sugar coma. Sugar is in essence a poison in the blood stream, and a too high presence of it will end your life at shortest within minutes. Also, we cannot store sugar for any mentionable duration of time - it's not a long-term energy source the way fat is. This is also the case for almost all other animals on the planet, mammals in particular. If the roles of sugar and fat would be reversed - sugar being storable, lipolysis needing to be acquired through switching of cell function - we could come to a different conclusion. Today we have empirical evidence, through years of study of people living on rigorous LCHF diets, that the human body does not require a single gram of sugar a day to function; it can slowly adapt and switch entirely, both brain, core and limbs, into being solely a fat- and protein-consuming machine. We can from this perspective consider sugars as being available as an alternate form of energy that we can process by secondary function, at a cost - the cost of insulin in our blood stream, and all the problems that can come with the production of such (various cardiovascular diseases have been linked to this, as well as the cases of insulin resistance and lack of insulin production from the pancreas from being "burnt out" being the two major problems).
  - eru 16y ago
    Thanks!

eru 16y ago

> the human body is primarily a FAT-BURNING MACHINE. How would our metabolism have to be different for you to come to a different conclusion? (I just want to know, how strong your statement is.)

hackermom 16y ago
Lipolysis is the inherit, main metabolical function of our liver and muscle cells. We cannot make use of monosaccharids without "switching" our cells into another mode. This is done by the pancreas secreting a hormone, insulin, into our blood stream; the hormone signals to our cells to stop burning fat and just store it instead, in order to focus on processing the sugar in the blood to prevent a sugar coma. Sugar is in essence a poison in the blood stream, and a too high presence of it will end your life at shortest within minutes. Also, we cannot store sugar for any mentionable duration of time - it's not a long-term energy source the way fat is. This is also the case for almost all other animals on the planet, mammals in particular. If the roles of sugar and fat would be reversed - sugar being storable, lipolysis needing to be acquired through switching of cell function - we could come to a different conclusion. Today we have empirical evidence, through years of study of people living on rigorous LCHF diets, that the human body does not require a single gram of sugar a day to function; it can slowly adapt and switch entirely, both brain, core and limbs, into being solely a fat- and protein-consuming machine. We can from this perspective consider sugars as being available as an alternate form of energy that we can process by secondary function, at a cost - the cost of insulin in our blood stream, and all the problems that can come with the production of such (various cardiovascular diseases have been linked to this, as well as the cases of insulin resistance and lack of insulin production from the pancreas from being "burnt out" being the two major problems).
- eru 16y ago
  Thanks!