Do high triglycerides make storing fat easier?
GaleHawkins
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" Most of your body's fat is stored as triglycerides."
"Food is one source of triglycerides. Your liver also makes them. When you eat extra calories — especially carbohydrates — your liver increases the production of triglycerides."
I will link to the infomercial that lead me down this rabbit hole below. While I do not have time to develop this right I was wondering if this subject is in another thread here. I am wondering if with very low levels of triglycerides does it make it harder to gain/store body fat even when eating higher calories but non carb foods. Thanks
https://instantknockout.com/ik/signs-of-fat-burning-in-urine/
" Most of your body's fat is stored as triglycerides."
"Food is one source of triglycerides. Your liver also makes them. When you eat extra calories — especially carbohydrates — your liver increases the production of triglycerides."
I will link to the infomercial that lead me down this rabbit hole below. While I do not have time to develop this right I was wondering if this subject is in another thread here. I am wondering if with very low levels of triglycerides does it make it harder to gain/store body fat even when eating higher calories but non carb foods. Thanks
https://instantknockout.com/ik/signs-of-fat-burning-in-urine/
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High fasting TG means that you have a high *circulating* level. Literally circulating as in going round and round because they have no place to land.
You have high TG on a high-carb diet because of multiple factors. The high glucose availability means your tissues need to soak up that glucose and ignore the fat, except for adipocytes, of course. Excess glucose also gets converted to more fat via DNL.
At some point, you can reach a point where even your adipocytes are full, and that's when you start getting in metabolic trouble. Side effects include fatty liver, insulin resistance, etc.
But if your circulating TG's are low on a high-fat diet, that just means 1) that your tissues are pulling more out of circulation because of use, and 2) you probably have plenty of room in adipocytes for any excess to be stored.
Excess TG will still happily end up as body fat as long as there's room.3
