Fat Metabolism Summary

A diagram of a liver and adipose tissue with a legend indicating that green arrows show dietary fat, blue arrows show burning fat, and orange arrows show storing fat. Within the liver, glycogen and glycerol both have blue arrows pointing to glucose and orange arrows pointing back from glucose, which has a blue arrow pointing to blood glucose and an orange arrow pointing back. Blood glucose then has an orange arrow pointing to glucose in adipose tissue, which has an orange arrow pointing to glycerol. Glucose within the liver also has an orange arrow pointing to fatty acid, which has an orange arrow pointing to triglyceride. Glycerol also has an orange arrow pointing to triglyceride, which has an orange arrow pointing to V-L-D-L, which has an orange arrow pointing to fatty acid within adipose tissue, which has an orange arrow pointing to L-D-L. Fatty acid within the liver also has a blue arrow pointing to ketone bodies. 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 chylomicron outside the adipose tissue has a green arrow pointing to fatty acid within the adipose tissue, which has a green arrow pointing to a chylomicron remnant outside the adipose tissue, which has a green arrow pointing to triglyceride within 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.
Dietary fat, burning fat, and storing fat: the processes of the liver and adipose tissue