Affiliation:
1. Division of Nephrology, Rocky Mountain VA Medical Center Aurora Colorado USA
2. Department of Medicine University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Aurora Colorado USA
3. Laboratory of Renal Physiopathology, Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia Ignacio Chavez Mexico City Mexico
Abstract
AbstractThe pathogenesis of obesity remains contested. Although genetics is important, the rapid rise in obesity with Western culture and diet suggests an environmental component. Today, some of the major hypotheses for obesity include the energy balance hypothesis, the carbohydrate‐insulin model, the protein‐leverage hypothesis, and the seed oil hypothesis. Each hypothesis has its own support, creating controversy over their respective roles in driving obesity. Here we propose that all hypotheses are largely correct and can be unified by another dietary hypothesis, the fructose survival hypothesis. Fructose is unique in resetting ATP levels to a lower level in the cell as a consequence of suppressing mitochondrial function, while blocking the replacement of ATP from fat. The low intracellular ATP levels result in carbohydrate‐dependent hunger, impaired satiety (leptin resistance), and metabolic effects that result in the increased intake of energy‐dense fats. This hypothesis emphasizes the unique role of carbohydrates in stimulating intake while fat provides the main source of energy. Thus, obesity is a disorder of energy metabolism, in which there is low usable energy (ATP) in the setting of elevated total energy. This leads to metabolic effects independent of excess energy while the excess energy drives weight gain.
Funder
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Subject
Nutrition and Dietetics,Endocrinology,Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism,Medicine (miscellaneous)
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