Definitely not an expert either, just well read
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Originally Posted by Aspengc8
It's also easier for the body to shuttle fatty acids back into fat cells, than to convert excess glucose to fat (de-novo lipogenesis I believe its called).
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That's part of what doesn't make sense about keto. Your body preferentially stores fat but converting glucose to fat (like you said - DNL) is a metabolically expensive process and very rarely happens in humans outside of weird eating like overfeeding at 90% carbs.
Another part that doesn't make sense is that fat is almost completely devoid of nutrients. Put butter, coconut oil, beef fat, pork fat, etc in a nutrition tracker and you'll see there is basically nothing in it but energy (butter has some vitamin A and K but that's pretty much it). So making the biggest chunk of your calories nutritionally void energy doesn't really make sense for extended weight loss and health.