53: Why You're Probably Nutrient Deficient | Chris Masterjohn, PhD
The Genius Life
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Is Insulin Fat Storage Hormone?
The reason that insulin promotes fat storage, in my view, is that you get more insulin when you have more calories. And so if you can store fat easily and you can't store carbohydrate easily, you're going to burn the carbohydrate for energy. Some people would look at this and they would say, well, carbohydrate is toxic and you want to get rid of the carbohydrate. That's not a logical way of making that system work. So I think yes, biochemically, but practically no.
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