Day 112 - What is Your Personal Fat Threshold & Why it Matters

Описание: Many people think that elevated insulin is the cause of obesity. But, I’m coming to realize that most of the time it’s actually the other way around. It is actually obesity (or at least being overfat relative to our Personal Fat Threshold) that causes hyperinsulinemia.

To be clear, it’s not being obese that causes diabetes. Instead, it’s a matter of being overfat relative to your Personal Fat Threshold. Some people are “blessed” to be able to store a lot more energy in their fat stores before they become insulin resistant and diabetic, while others find that can only store a little bit of energy in their adipose stores before it overflows and ends up being stored in their vital organs and bloodstream.

You must understand hyperplasia vs hypertrophic fat cells. People who are skinny fat, meaning they have a high amount of visceral & organ fat but low to no visible subcutaneous fat genetically have hypertrophic fat cell tendencies. Meaning their fat cells don’t like to multiply, they just grow to their max size and then start dumping the excess fat anywhere else they can find.

The people you see on my 600lb life have fat cells that have hyperplastic tendencies, meaning their fat cells love to multiply and seemingly have no limit to how many times they will divide.

Diabetes is fundamentally a disease of energy toxicity. You have consumed too much energy over a long period of time and your body’s subcutaneous fat cells can no longer contain it, so its starts storing fat viscerally, once there’s no room there, it starts storing fat in your organs like pancreas, liver, ect. And eventually its spills over into your blood in the form of high blood sugar and high triglycerides.

Fat raises insulin too, it just takes longer
Most of the time we focus on carbs (and to a lesser extent protein) as being the culprit when it comes to raising insulin levels. But does this hold true when we look at the big picture?

The insulin index data suggests that higher fat foods have a lower insulin response. But is this simply because the insulin index testing only measured the insulin response over three hours?

Insulin rises more slowly for a high-fat meal compared to glucose or a mixed meal.[18] However, it still rises and looks like it will keep on going for a while after the 120-minute measurement.

If we were able to test the insulin response over 24 hours, I think we would see that insulin response is actually more closely related to the available energy in our food rather than a specific nutrient.

Is our long-term insulin response simply related to the amount of energy in our food and hence the amount of energy needs to be held back in storage by the liver?

Is it only because carbs and protein have a higher oxidative priority than fat that we see a greater short-term spike in insulin (i.e. does the body needs to act more quickly with a sharper insulin response to hold back energy from carbs in storage compared to fat or protein)?

From Dr. Ted Naiman’s book P:E Diet - https://tednaiman.com/

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