when our body’s have too much fat why does it store it in the liver instead of expelling from the body?

Question

when our body’s have too much fat why does it store it in the liver instead of expelling from the body?

In: Biology

Answer 1

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