Tying up your knowledge in a pretty little bow

(Katie the Quiche Scoffing Stick Ninja ) #1

I feel like I have researched Keto for months now, and although I have learnt a lot, I still feel I am missing some basics, I feel like I have half of the equation, but I don’t have the complete answer. I know I could research this, and probably find what I am looking for, but I’m also looking for lamens terms, and what better to ask the people of this forum, who have a clear understanding and can explain it in a way that’s easily understood.

What I’m looking for is some type of diagram, or map, or explanation regarding the human body, what happens when we eat carbs, protein and fat, how our body breaks each macronutrient down, including insulin and hormone responses.

I’m trying to explain this the best I can, so what I mean is basically like this…

“When you eat a carbohydrate, it is absorbed into the blood stream, which makes the sugar levels in the blood go up. As the sugar level rises, the pancreas releases the hormone insulin into the blood… ’ then finish the sentence, what happens when the hormone insulin is released into the blood? This then stores fat, etc.”

I’m just interested in a detailed easy to understand breakdown of what the next process is, what happens to the fat cells, what happens when we eat protein…

Please help me out here LOL.

#2

Ted Naiman’s site is very good for breaking things down http://burnfatnotsugar.com/index.html

(Katie the Quiche Scoffing Stick Ninja ) #3

Thank you! :slight_smile:

(Katie the Quiche Scoffing Stick Ninja ) #4

I think I figured it out, I am just going to ask Google a shitload of questions until I get the answers I’m looking for so I can understand the complete picture.

This is what I’ve done, and the angle I was going for ;

What is blood sugar? The concentration of glucose in the blood
What is insulin? A hormone produced in the pancreas which regulates the amount of glucose in the blood. Lack of insulin forms Diabetes.
What is protein?
What is a carbohydrate? Any large group of organic compounds occuring in foods and living tissues including starch, suggars and cellulose. They are broken down to release energy into the body.
What happens when you eat a carbohydrate? The body turns carbs into glucose, which is absorbed into the blood stream and makes the blood sugar levels go up. As the sugar level rises, the pancreas releases the hormone insulin into the blood.
What is Type 1 Diabetes The body’s own immune system destroys the insulin-producing cells in the pancreas, resulting in low insulin levels which leads to high blood sugar. Insulin levels are low to begin with.
What is Type 2 Diabetes Insulin levels are not low, but high. Blood sugar is elevated not because the body can’t make insulin but because it’s become resistant to insulin, it doesn’t let insulin do it’s job.
What causes insulin resistance? Insulin causes Insulin resistance, the body responds to excessively high levels of any substance by developing resistance to it. We call this tolerance.
(Katie the Quiche Scoffing Stick Ninja ) #5

I was just going to continue down the line until I reached a complete explanation of the human body

when you eat a carbohydrate it is broken down into glucose AND THEN… etc etc etc until we reach fat adaption, lol.

#6

Protein is a large chain of amino acids linked together by a specific type of chemical bond called a peptide bond.

Amino acids are a type of chemical used by the body that contain both a amine group (which is alkaline) and an acid group on the same molecule. When the alkaline amine group of one amino acid binds to the acid group of another, this is a peptide bond.

I guess that’s more than a chemical answer than a biological one, but I hope that helps.

#7

Amy Berger at http://www.tuitnutrition.com/ goes into quite some detail. Her posts can be quite long but are always worth reading.