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Chris, you say in this podcast that leanness creates low energy status, thus stimulating PFK and PDH, etc. Why does leanness or fasting create low energy status? It seems that the body is always fighting to maintain an appropriate cellular energy status, [ATP]. With that in mind, so leanness should not have an impact on this necessarily. Fasting should not have an impact on this necessarily because the body will turn to whatever fuel it needs to for maintaining ATP, protein and fat. It seems that what affects this dynamic more is exercise/physical activity that helps lower energy status … but only during or immediately post-exercise/physical activity. But, in the resting state, energy status should always(?) be high because of the nature of the carbohydrate metabolism regulation??!! I am stuck on this thought within your podcast and cannot seem to create the rationale for this problem. Your thoughts?
Kent, you are right, but part of what it does to get ATP levels back is suck up energy into, for example, skeletal muscle instead of fat, or get them down by rejecting energy from skeletal muscle and letting it accumulate in fat.
And that’s cellular energy status. Then there is organismal energy status, which I addressed here: https://chrismasterjohnphd.com/2016/10/08/when-fat-people-cant-get-fat-enough-and-lean-people-get-fat-in-all-the-wrong-places/