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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oldvatr" data-source="post: 1523604" data-attributes="member: 196898">You are right to point out that the body burns the excess fat when glucose in blood is depleted.  But with a high intake of carbs, then the glucose is not depleted, and this switches off the ketosis mode, and the body happily munches glucose in preference to fat, so the liver does not empty.  This is why ketosis is so important in shifting fatty liver deposits, as well as emptying the muscles of their stores as well, otherwise the body has a near constant supply of blood glucose to burn.  WFPB is a high carb diet.If glucose levels are high then going very low fat intake will mean that the body has anple glucose, but low levels of lipids from the stomach.  In this instance it reacts, not by a liver dump,, but by creating lipids from carbs instead.  So it seems the liver is held back.   The liver only steps in with a liver dump when bgl is low such as an approaching hypo and this is an emergency response when all else fails,  It happens mainly in the morning because one of the signals of impending starvation is that no food has come into the stomach for several hours, the stomach has emptied, and sugar is low.  This is why we only really notice a liver dump when doing a low carb diet or prolonged fasting.  I cannot see a viable proceess by which WFPB can trigger the liver to 'lose weight'.  So I must be wrong in thinking IR is due to fatty liver.On a personal note, I have been LCHF for 2 years this Sept, and my body weight has been static at 10,.5 stone since the inital loss   I am at a good weight for my frame but even on higher fat intake I do not gain, so for me LCHF is working well,    But I am not claiming to have reversed my T2D.  I have just gained control over it for a while,</blockquote>

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