005: What Does Insulin Have to do With Being a Carb Burner vs a Fat Burner

In this episode, Dr. Steve shares the difference between Being a carb burner and being a fat burner in the body and how we need fat in our nutrition plan to help repair cellular damage in our bodies and to help make several hormones. He also shares that keeping our insulin levels low not only helps burn fat but also helps us feel healthy and also have more energy.

[00:01 - 04:22] An Analogy of a Campfire

• Getting ready to build a bonfire by stockpiling logs
• Using kindling instead of logs for the entire campfire
• Like the campfire analogy, our body has 2 forms of energy that it burns

[04:23 -08:38 ] Differentiating Carbs and Fats

• Dietary fats are good fats that travel through the intestines and get absorbed by the bloodstream
• Dietary fats helps the body create new cells
• Carbohydrates travel through the bloodstream and straight to the liver and in return the body generates insulin
• The body converts carbohydrates into fatty acids

[08:39 -15:48] How Fatty Acids Travel Through the Body

• Fatty acids that flow through the body and gets stored in the form of a compound called triglyceride
• The triglyceride cannot cross across the membrane but cleaves the fatty acids so they can cross the membrane and then get turned back into triglycerides to be stored.
• High insulin stimulates the enzyme on the outside of the cell to cleave off the fatty acids to go into the cell, to get converted back into triglycerides and get stored as fat
• Low insulin stimulates the enzyme on the inside, which causes the fat to move from storage, into the bloodstream, to be used as energy

[15:49 - 18:10] Closing Segment

• Teach your body to be a fat burner by avoiding carbohydrates
• Keeping your insulin low helps the body lose fats
• The body is designed to be a fat burner

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"When you keep your insulin high, you get fatter. When you keep your insulin levels low, you actually burn your own fat, so you actually start losing your fat and you start feeling better and clear headed and have more energy." - Dr. Steve Hughlett