HOW DOES GLUCOSE CONVERT INTO FAT🤔

Fat generally doesn't get converted to fat but glucose does!!!!! 

     Dive in to know how🙃

        Firstly, sugar doesn't get directly an immediately converted into fat. There's a process called Lipogenesis

       Excess sugar adds in calories and increases certain hormones that can lead to overeating and this cause fat storage. 


WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU EAT SUGAR

Whenever you eat sugar and carbs like bread 🍞🥖 or 🍝pasta
                             
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Our body breaks them down into glucose molecules (main type of sugar, in the blood stream) as a part of the digestion process

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In response, insulin gets released by pancreas , enters blood stream and then moves glucose molecules from your blood into your cells where it acts like your body's main source of energy⚡

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Glucose that is not immediately used is stored a glycogen  in your 💪muscles and liver. 
( Think of glycogen as your checking account. Can easily be withdrawn whenever u need energy) 
           But, the twist is, there's a limited amount of storage u can do in these muscles and liver. An avg person's body can house app. upto 600 gms of glycogen at a time. 
           [ Is sufficient to fuel 2 hrs of severe exercise or a full 24hrs without 🍲food!!! ]

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If u eat a lot of sugar, more than your muscles and liver can hold at one time, your body needs another place to put that, excess. Our body converts the extra glucose into fat by a process called LIPOGENESIS

This fat is stored under your skin as subcutaneous fat or stored around your abdominal organs as visceral fat  or in certain other oragans like your liver. This fat, is like your body's savings account!!!!!!! 
It hangs onto this fat only when u use up your glycogen reserves. 

As quoted from the link given below:
In healthy individuals, hepatic lipogenesis is activated after ingestion of high-carbohydrate, low-fat diet to generate fat from dietary carbohydrate. Insulin plays a critical role in this process by activating a well-characterized lipogenic transcription factor, SREBP-1c.



But, SUGAR ISN'T THE ONLY FOOD TO GET CONVERTED AS FAT. EVEN PROTEINS DO!! EXCESS PROTEINS CAN CONVERTED TO GLYCOGEN FIRST AND THEN LATER FAT. 
         But most often you are more likely to store sugar as fat rather than protein.!! 

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