Christopher Ellis explains how excess carbs trigger insulin release, which directs glucose to the liver when muscles are full. This liver fat accumulation leads to high blood pressure. The chain: carbs to insulin to fatty liver to hypertension.
And I've mentioned this on podcasts before, the first shoe to fall is elevated insulin. All right, so let's move on to the topic at hand, insulin and high blood pressure. So, as a reminder, insulin is secreted by the pancreas when you eat carbohydrates or foods that are high in carbohydrates. It's going to elevate your insulin because your body tightly regulates how much sugar is in the bloodstream. So, the pancreas's role is to secrete the insulin to get the sugar out of— some degree of sugar out of the blood. You always want some in there. And it pushes it into the muscle cells in the form of glycogen and into the liver. Once you run out of space in the muscle, it gets stored more in the liver. That's how fatty liver develops.
