other fats that help protect your body from too
much PA. So there’s basically no way to get a
lot of PA into your body all by itself.
Unless ...
You eat too much refined carbohydrate.PLAN B
All the way back in Chapter 5, we
mentioned your body’s Plan B for
storing energy when the liver and
muscle glycogen stores are full.
In the case of full glycogen
stores, the liver then turns the
glucose into fat—specifically, a
form of saturated fat called
palmitic acid (!)—which could be
used for energy, but is more
likely (because you’re a sugar-
burner and not fat-adapted) to
promote elevated triglycerides,
leptin resistance and insulin