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**What Happens To The Fat Cells

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When diet or calories burning do not cover daily energy spending, the body releases catabolic hormones which activate the enzyme called lipase, located within fat cells (lipids = fats). Lipase breaks down triglycerides into glycerol and fatty acids. These components get out of the fat cells into the bloodstream, where they are accessible to tissues throughout the body.

The liver preferentially absorbs the glycerol and some of the fatty acids, the remainder of which is taken in by the muscles. The brain can not use fats for its energetic needs, just glucose!

Once inside the liver or muscle cells, the fatty ingredients are further disassembled and modified, eventually resulting in large quantities of a compound called acetyl-CoA. Within the cells' mitochondria, where all the burnings in the organism take place, the acetyl-CoA combines with oxaloacetate to form citric acid. This synthesis kicks off the citric acid cycle (or Krebs cycle), a set of chemical reactions that creates usable energy from any organic substance (fat, protein and carbohydrates).

The result of the Krebs cycle (burning) is carbon dioxide, water and heat, as well as adenosine triphosphate (ATP), an energy-carrying molecule that fuels cellular activities.
The carbon dioxide is then expelled from the lungs during exhalation. The water exits the body as urine and perspiration.


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