Re:Poor-quality relationships linked to greater distress tha...
by WhompingWindows on Thursday February 28, 2019 @04:14PM
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It's not correct to say sugar is metabolized by insulin, though. Cells in the pancreas detect increased blood sugar levels, which then leads to subsequent insulin release, which tells different kind of cells across the body to intake sugar and store energy in various ways. Those cells then may store sugar into fatty acids or glycogen, though it's been a while since I reviewed the biochemistry.
This difference in metabolism is due to physiology. It is not a myth. The implications of the difference are that energy created through the insulin process is immediately available and the unused remainder of energy after use is stored as fat. Fat in take, on the other hand, stores energy as fat the body thinks it will need and dumps the rest. Fat becomes energy when stored fat is metabolized in the liver resulting in slow but more consistent energy. Understanding that difference is significant to dropping weight.