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Your body responds to the intake of carbohydrates by creating insulin which regulates the storage of carbohydrates as “body fat” (see: glycogen). Overall, your
by adamgluck 7y ago
Your body responds to the intake of carbohydrates by creating insulin which regulates the storage of carbohydrates as “body fat” (see: glycogen). Overall, your body is 70% fat (cell membranes, for example). In other words, dietary fat != body fat and there is no reason that your body would store it as such (in adipose tissue), it actually, mechanistically, as far as I know, cannot.
- superpermutat0r 7y agoBut glycogen is not fat in the adipose tissue. Glycogen goes into muscles and is a ready fuel, fuel ready for fast metabolic burn. The metabolism to turn carbohydrates and protein into fat is insanely inefficient compared to just storing fat as fat. And fat is the first thing to get stored when there's an insulin spike, not to mention the carbs+fat combination is the thing that creates insulin resistance exactly because of the fat messing everything up. So I'm thinking, and please correct me if I'm wrong, that you are just repeating some keto "truth" that does not really make sense. Because when I googled that, the only sources were pretty much some keto promoting pages.
- masonic 7y agoIs that a typo? Glycogen is not a lipid. Do you mean glycerol?
- piva00 7y agoAs other commenters have pointed out, the pathway of converting dietary fat to body fat is extremely efficient compared to the ones for carbs and proteins. The body has ways to store or convert most of the macro nutrients to fat when needed, insulin spikes help with that but aren't the only mechanism to trigger fat storage.