Health and Fitness Masterclass With Dr. Layne Norton
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The Inproducts of Metabolism Are CO2 and Water
What determines that is your energy balance, whether or not you're consuming less calories than you're expending. So what happens to that fat? Well, it undergoes a process called lipolysis where the stored triglycerides are liberated into free fatty acids. And those free fatty acids can then be oxidized through a process called beta oxidation. But since carbohydrate doesn't get stored as fat, really, like less than 2% of the carbons that wind up in adipose originated as carbohydrate.
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