Energy Balance
Energy Balance
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10.1201/9781315380728-18
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2018
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Nasreen Begum
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Nasreen Begum
The body maintains energy balance throughout the daily feed-fast cycles, across periods where energy demands increase due to physical exertion, and when energy supplies are depleted due to nutrient deprivation. During a typical day, several meals are consumed leading to periods of time several hours long after the meals, the fed state, where there is a net energy gain. This situation changes during sleep and during gaps in meal intake where the net energy balance, that is calories in minus calories out, becomes negative. These are the fast states that lead to refeeding. The ability of the body to maintain energy balance is centered about a set of peripheral organs and tissues that digest, convert, ship, and store nutrients and energy, namely, Pancreas Liver Adipose tissue Muscle Gastrointestinal tract In the fed state, nutrients – carbohydrates, fat, and amino acids – are taken in, converted, and stored. In response to the increase in circulating glucose, the pancreas secretes insulin that serves as a fed-state start signal to the other peripheral tissues. The liver takes up and stores the glucose as glycogen. Triglycerides are packaged into large, transportable particles; these are synthesized and stored in adipose (fat) tissue, and muscle rebuilds its supply of protein. In the fast state, nutrients are no longer taken in but instead energy sources residing in peripheral tissues are mobilized and released to maintain energy homeostasis. This state is signaled by glucagon release from the pancreas. The liver now breaks down and releases the stored glucose/glycogen, initiates gluconeogenesis, initiates fatty acid oxidation, and generates ketone bodies as an alternative/supplement to the dwindling glucose supply. Adipose tissue degrades their triglycerides thereby supplying fatty acids and glycerol to other peripheral tissues, muscle utilizes fatty acid oxidation, and ketone bodies are shipped to the brain.