Are You a Fat Burner or a Sugar Burner? #insulinresistance #healthyliving #ketosis #lowcarb

As a metabolic scientist, I'm interested in how the body uses energy. And metabolically speaking, the body is kind of like a hybrid. It has two fuels. And these two fuels are fats and glucose, or blood sugar. And at any moment, the body is burning a mix of these fuels. It's shifting between them to varying degrees. Sometimes we're fat burning, other times we're sugar burning. What dictates which fuel we're using is the hormone insulin. When insulin is elevated, the body is in sugar burning mode. When insulin is down, the body's in fat burning mode. In fact, sometimes insulin's down for so long that the body's burning so much fat that it starts turning some of that fat into ketones. And that's why a low insulin diet is referred to as a ketogenic diet. But the question really is, which fuel are you burning? Are you a fat burner or are you a sugar burner? And insulin is what's going to dictate that. But if you're trying to lose weight, good luck losing weight if you're a sugar burner.