Is Insulin Fat Storage Hormone?

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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.

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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