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Old 05-23-2009, 05:54 AM   #22 (permalink)
cycomiko
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Can you give some examples of where he is incorrect? I've heard more about him than the article, btw. I saw a google.videos vid of him talking about this. It was pretty interesting, but some of it was a bit weird. HE talked about a substance that was needed to put fatty acids and glycerol together in fat tissue that could ONLY be made from dietary carbs, so if you didn't eat carbs, that substance wouldn't be in your body and you wouldn't accumilate fat. That sounds kinda weird to me. He called it alpha-something, I can't remember.
alpha-glycerol phosphate, or glycerol-3 phosphate

glucose can be used to create glycerol 3 phosphate, but so can glycerol...

anotehr strange thing, is that the body can produce something called glucose from a number of different sources for metabolic requirements

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