Is Insulin a Fat Storage Hormone?

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In the big picture, I would characterize insulin as a metric of energy availability and versatility. So to some extent, any energy input, even fat is going to have some ability to make you make more insulin. But it's also true that there are some things that you can do with carbohydrate that you can't do with fat. If you don't need anything, then if you eat 50% higher than your caloric needs of fat and nothing else,. That's when your body decides, I got enough. Right?

Chris Masterjohn earned his PhD in Nutritional Sciences from the University of Connecticut in 2012. He served as a postdoctoral research associate in the Comparative Biosciences department of the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. From August 2014 to December 2016, he served as Assistant Professor of Health and Nutrition Sciences at Brooklyn College, part of the City University of New York.

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