Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Where do triglycerides come from? Part II

Part I

Low carb dogma would have us believe that the triglycerides pumped out by our livers are not from the fats in our diet but the carbohydrates.  And specifically that they are formed from fatty acids derived from de novo lipogensis - DNL - aka excess carbs converted to fat.    As was discussed in Part I, in a whole food carbohydrate diet, DNL is not a major contributor to VLDL-triglycerides. 

So, now, we have additional work from the Hellerstein's research group at Berkley.  More specifically, a 2006 paper:
I'm going to discuss the paper and the results thereof in Part III, but for this installment I wanted to show and discuss a nice graphical overview of VLDL-TG sources from this more recent paper:

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