Fat, fatty liver, diabetes, trigylycerides, carnitine  
 
​Unutilized fat and carbs from micronutrient deficiencies

Fats are often blamed when fats are not utilized and their unutilized forms deposted in the body appear correlated with symptoms.
Fats are not the cause of the symptoms.
Fat are part of the solution that may not have fully worked because other nutrient cofactors of the solution are missing.
Micronutrients--minerals, vitamins, and other compounds--are necessary to utilize fats and carbs that can turn into fats.
When nutrients are taken out of context, problems are attributed to the nutrients themselves, rather than the relationships: missing partners, imbalances, and toxins creating problems.
 
The absolute principle for understanding this nutritional approach is an understanding of root causes based on the definition of what a root cause is: it has to be something outside the body because body parts don’t cause their own problems.
From outside the body means:  

• Missing: nutrients, movement
• Invading: toxins, infections.

​Body parts and processes are where symptoms show up, like: inflammation, hormones, cancer, fatigue, and fatty liver, which I will focus on here.
This is not just theory before we “get to the point.”
This is the point that you must get to understand everything else, otherwise you will never focus on what is important--many people think they already know abut they don’t.  
Scientific articles go in circles elaborating “risk factors” that are just correlations that may confuse causation and correlation, or not even attempting causal explanation because they are lost in the details of chemical reactions and don’t have criteria for what a root cause is in the first place.
 
The practical problem is to identify all the nutrients needed for the body to heal itself, including to detoxify and improve immunity.  
 
Triglyceride fats are good because they are used for energy but high levels are bad.
High levels mean that triglyceride fats are not being utilized for energy due to missing cofactor nutrients, so can be associated with various symptoms.
 
It’s well known that high triglycerides are associated with high levels of carbohydrate consumption.
Often carbohydrates cannot be utilized due to nutritional deficiencies of minerals and vitamins.  
Carb levels are very often too high for the level of exercise.
So these carbs turned into sugars must be cleared from the blood and turned into fat, triglycerides which are a source of energy that can be stored as body fat.
 
Then there must be nutrients to utilize fat for energy so it does not accumulate as deposits like in fatty liver. Carnitine is a nutrient that utilizes fat by taking long chain fatty acids into the cell mitochondria for energy.  Studies show that carnitine can help with fatty liver. Anecdotal testimonies are that carnitine helps with energy levels and weight loss through helping burn fat for energy.
 
Carnitine deficiency can be caused by deficiencies of its component parts that synthesize it: lysine, methionine, iron, C, and B3.
And each of these has nutrient cofactors for their utilization, making virtually all nutrients indirect cofactor nutrients for any nutrient. This means your whole system is so interdependent that any deficiency can affect the others and lead to additional deficiencies for a snow ball effect.
 
The nutrients that work with carnitine as its cofactors could be another issue.
Other nutrients are needed for the mitochondria, so just taking carnitine as a supplement only works to the extent that it is the weakest link, and then progress depends on leveling up all mitochondria nutrients that are deficient or will become deficiency relative to the others as they increase. .
B3, niacin, and its metabolites—NMN, NAD, NADH, etc.--are central to mitochondrial energy. So if you are deficient in carnitine because you are deficient in B3, then you would not expect to get very far just taking carnitine without increasing B3.
In fact, you could get worse as you are taking something you can’t utilize and then have to spend energy excreting it.
This is why supplements often don’t work and people get worse: they are not leveling up all weak links evenly, in addition to many problems with supplement quality and impurities.
 
The problem of vitamin C deficiency illustrates a whole other set of issues.
As an antioxidant C works to neutralize toxins that are free radical electron stealers by donating an electron to neutralize the toxin.
Antioxidants should be understood as a whole in the body for their ability to raise electron levels and combat total toxic body burden.
C is recycled and multiplied by flavonoids from fruits, fruit seeds and herbs.
The major antioxidants all work together recycling each other by donating electrons to help each continue its specialized function when each is needed: glutathione, C, E, CoQ10, and alpha lipoic acid. Any deficiencies of these may demand more of the others to recycle them by donating back an electron.
 
The higher the toxic load the more nutrients are needed to detoxify.  
Toxicity thus creates nutritional deficiencies by burning nutrients and stealing electrons from electron donating antioxidants.
So liver or hepatic cells need more energy but they can’t utilize fat for energy so they are getting weaker when they need to be stronger. This is the vicious circle of nutrient deficiencies and toxicity.
 
Everyone with chronic health problems has nutrient deficiencies and toxic load that requires nutrients to detoxify.
Fatty liver is one common sign of nutrient deficiencies and an estimated one third of industrialized country populations have fatty liver.
Fatty liver is highly correlated with diabetes and prediabetes, the problem of utilizing carbs. When carbs cannot be utilized insulin helps clear the body of high blood sugar and store them as fat like in the form of triglycerides deposited all over the body and liver.  
The problem of not utilizing carbs has been called “insulin resistance” which includes nutrients missing that are needed for insulin to deliver sugar into the cell.
Resistance can also encompass too many carbs to ever be used at that level of exercise.
Weight gain is not just from insulin resistance to carbs but also calorie levels from any source.
I got fat in a keto state so that’s not the magic answer to weight loss.  
 
A moderate amount of carbs with high utilization can be attained by replacing grains with fruits that have many more vitamins and minerals for a better nutrient to calories ratio.
The minerals in fruit like potassium and magnesium are alkaline and that balances a diet better with meat that has acid minerals like phosphorous and sulfur.
 
Meat is the highest source of carnitine. Lamb is the highest, closely followed by beef.
Beef seems to have the highest amounts of mito nutrients like carnitne, carnosine, creatine and ubiquinol/ CoQ10.
The carnitine in beef may be just enough to utilize the fat in beef, as cofactors in food are generally balanced. Additional carnitine supplements may be needed to utilize the excess fat on the body like in the liver.

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Move to circulate, align, & relax.

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