when our body’s have too much fat why does it store it in the liver instead of expelling from the body?
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Your body is built for survival in the wild. We don’t do that anymore, but your body doesn’t know that. If it has energy, it stores it. Never throws it away, because it doesn’t know your next meal is safely in the fridge.
Fat is the best way to store energy, because it’s the lightest, so in small amounts it still allows you to run and hunt and find more food, so your body can keep keeping that precious fat until the inevitable day when the mammoth wins and you go hungry.
It’ll store that fat wherever it can, and no matter how much it already has stocked away
People who are insulin resistant have chronically high insulin and that makes it hard for them to build fat. They end up with high levels of fat – triglycerides – in their bloodstream. When they eat fructose, the liver converts that to fat. In normal metabolism, it would be released from the liver and burned, but the inability to burn fat means that’s not really possible.
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