Lipids are Waxy and Oily
- Lubrication
- Metabolic Fuel
- Energy Storage, Body Fat
Petroleum, a Lipid minus Oxygen
- Oil will not mix with water in the body
- Therefore it is no good in body fluids
- Petroleum burns with hot flames,
- Cannot work in the body
Fatty Acid (FA)
- petroleum + oxygen attached (O2)
- petroleum is against life
- fatty acids are for life (O2)
- stores energy
- releases energy
- Stores water
- fatty membranes hold water
- eye bluid
- brain fluid
- bladder fluids
- blood plasma
- fatty membranes hold water
- most fatty acid carbon chain are in pairs
- examples:
- Short chain
- butyric acid (4C butter)
- medium chain
- long chain, 16-20 carbons
- palmitic acid (16C palm oil)
- very long chain
- Short chain
Fat cells
- adipose tissue
- cells that store oil
- belly fat
- viceral fat around organs
- white adipose tissue
- semi-permanent fat
- fructose / ketone sugar dominant
- muscle fat
- brown adipose tissue
- temporary fat
- glucose sugar dominant
- cells that store oil
- fat cells are part of the hormone system
- hormones including
- estrogen (16C, tetra cyclic)
- lectin
- all stored body fat in high in estrogen
- hormones including
Triglyceride
- glycerin + 3 fatty acids
- Butter cannot be in a triglyceride
- triglycerides only contain 16-20 carbon FA's
- butter is 4 carbon chain Fatty Acid (FA)
- a cluster or glob of fatty acids
- triglycerides do not release energy
- neutralized by glycerol
- glycerol -- a 3 carbon sugar
- 3 Fatty Acids each with 16 - 20 carbon chains
- triglycerides store energy,
- few should be in blood
- a glob of oil that does not relaease energy
16 carbon chain fatty acids
- palmitic acid (palm oil)
18 carbon chain fatty acids
- pa
20 carbon chain fatty acids
- pa
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to develop a page: steroids
Plant steroids
- phyto-estrogen
- alkaloids (putrification from plants)
- coca
- cocaine
- night shades
Animal steroids
- estrogen
- testosterone
Fungal steroids
- ergosterol