Endogenous Fat: Summary

A diagram of a liver and adipose tissue with a legend indicating that blue arrows show burning fat and orange arrows show storing fat. Within the liver, glycogen and glycerol both have blue arrows leading to glucose and orange arrows leading back from glucose, which has a blue arrow leading to blood glucose and an orange arrow leading back. Blood glucose then has an orange arrow leading to glucose in adipose tissue, which has an orange arrow pointing to glycerol. Glucose within the liver also has an orange arrow leading to fatty acid, which has an orange arrow leading to triglyceride. Glycerol also has an orange arrow leading to triglyceride, which has an orange arrow leading to V-L-D-L, which has an orange arrow leading to fatty acid within adipose tissue, which has an orange arrow pointing to L-D-L. Within adipose tissue, triglyceride has a blue arrow pointing to fatty acid, which has an orange arrow pointing back to triglyceride. Triglyceride also has a blue arrow pointing to glycerol, which has an orange arrow pointing back to triglyceride. Glycerol then enters the liver. A blue arrow points from fatty acid in adipose tissue to circulating fatty acid outside the tissue and to the fatty acid in the liver.
Burning fat and storing fat: the processes of the liver and adipose tissue