Stored fat

Insulin appears to activate a process that helps glucose molecules enter the cells of striated muscle and adipose tissue Figure 49-1 depicts normal glucose metabolism. Insulin also stimulates die synthesis of glycogen by die liver. In addition, insulin promotes protein syntiiesis and helps the body store fat by preventing its breakdown for energy. 

Just like mammals, birds have a delayed reaction to lipotropHc pesticides such as OCPs and their metabolites. These toxic substances dissolve and accumulate in the fatty tissues of well-fed birds, and are comparably harmless in this form. However, once the bird starts using the stored fat (at the end of a long flight or when laying eggs), the substances are carried through the bloodstream to the brain, liver, or yolk of the egg, and poison all the systems [1]. In particular, well-fed raptors have lower DDE concentrations in their liver (0.5 mg/kg) than less well-fed (3.5 mg/kg) and emaciated birds (7.3 mg/kg) [6]. 

Bacteria are capable of storing fat in the form of globules. Fat globules may be demonstrated in 24-hr. cultures and usually reach a maximum in about 48 hr. 

Figure 2.2 Fat, or adipose, cells store extra energy from food. Adipose cells help insulate the body to keep it warm, cushion and protect the internal organs, and store extra energy for later use. When people consume more energy from food, the extra energy is stored as fat in adipose cells. Years ago, this stored energy could be used to avoid starvation in times of famine. Today, people never use this stored fat because famine does not exist in developed countries. These fat cells continue to accumulate and lead to weight gain and eventually to obesity.

Overweight and obesity are caused by a combination of genetic and environmental factors. Some people have a genetic predisposition to gain weight and store fat. For others, the factors that lead to obesity can be found in the world they inhabit and the behaviors they choose. 

Feeding Store fat, glucose, protein High insulin, low glucagon... 

Feeding Stores fat Fasting Releases stored fat Starving Releases stored fat Diabetes Releases stored fat Excitement Releases stored fat... 

Waxes are found in animal and insect secretions and the cell walls of some bacteria. The stored fat of marine animals has a high wax component which forms an energy reserve. Waxes are extracted and used commercially in the preparation of creams, cosmetics, polishes, lubricants and protective coatings for surfaces. 

The resynthesized triglycerides invariably contain saturated and unsaturated fatty acids in an approximate 2 1 ratio. Typically, nearly all of the fatty acid content of adipose tissue can be accounted for by just six different types of molecule with palmitate (06 0) and oleate (08 1) together contributing over 75% of the total. Turnover studies suggest that for most people, much of the fat is metabolically relatively inert acting as depot with a long half-life, and only a smaller component of the stored fat being readily accessible. 

A recent method that s still under development is to take vitamin lecithin. This vitamin breaks down your stored fat and disperses it into your blood stream, to help clean out drugs that store themselves in lipid tissue, such as THC. NORML recommends taking Lecithin right up to the day of the test. To me it sounds as though this would work against you because by putting THC back in your blood stream, you are increasing metabolites in the urine. 

Dr. Talbott links daily stress to hormone that stores FAT (Cortislim). World Wide Web, 2004. http //www.cortisol.com (accessed 4—10-2004). 

The metabolic water formed by oxidation of foods and stored fats is actually enough to allow some animals in very dry habitats (gerbils, kangaroo rats, camels) to survive for extended periods without drinking water. 

M. Mobilization of Stored Fats and Oxidation of Fatty Acids... 

IV. MOBILIZATION OF STORED FATS AND OXIDATION OF FATTY ACIDS... 

The mobilization of stored fat requires the hydrolytic release of fatty adds and glycerol from their TAG form. This process is initiated by hormone-sensitive lipase, which removes a fatty acid from carbon 1 and/or carbon 3 of the TAG. Additional lipases specific for diacylglyc-erol or monoacylglycerol remove the remaining fatty acids. 

Although the adipocyte s primary role is to store fat, it also function as an endocrine cell that releases numerous regulatory molecifes such as leptin, adiponectin, and resistin. 

The solution to this problem is to drink plenty of water. This means routinely quenching your thirst plus drinking extra when exercising or in hot weather. This allows your kidneys to do their job of ridding the body of wastes and your liver to do its job of metabolizing stored fat. 

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