Guest guest Posted August 18, 2003 Report Share Posted August 18, 2003 Would anyone be able to explain what causes high triglyceride readings there are many possible causes of high TG readings, I explain one that I think is important : the way to transport fat within the body from the storage fat cells (like those fat cells under the skin) to muscle cells (that use fat as fuel) is in the blood, if muscle cells do not have sugar as a fuel they are forced to burn fat, they have no other abundant fuel, so if you are e.g. fasting more triglycerides are released from fat cells and travel in the blood to your muscle cells to be used and TG readings go up as in many people muscle cells are not used to burn fat very effectively clearing blood from fat fast enough. If your diet contains lots of carbohydrates (like sugar or starches) your cells have lost the ability to burn fats effectively. This is the same effect as with your muscles becoming weak if you never do sports but become strong after training .So even dietary restriction will increase blood levels of TG until the surplus of fat and stored nutrients is burned down. If you avoid carbohydrates in you diet your cells you may train your cells to burn fat and finally TG may go down. A good way to train cells to burn fat is long distance running. After 1-3 hours of running the carbohydrate stores are used up and if you cant burn triglycerides you cant go on, so if you go on for some more hours you force cells to finally rebuild the biochemical structures to burn fat from ineffectively to effectively. regards, Juergen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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