"Dr. Ray Peat Fact Check 2: The Half-Life of Human Fat Tissue is 600 Days?"
http://www.andrewkimblog.com/2013/02/dr-ray-peat-fact-check-2-half-life-of.html
from Kim's conclusion:
http://www.andrewkimblog.com/2013/02/dr-ray-peat-fact-check-2-half-life-of.html
from Kim's conclusion:
In summary, the speed with which we burn through fat stores is determined predominantly by the body’s demand for fatty acids, and its ability to oxidize them for energy. A case in point is endurance training, an activity where fatty acids in the adipose tissue, blood, and muscles are mobilized & burned at an incredibly fast rate, to where body fat can be reduced to the lowest level possible in just a matter of time. Also, for the most part, equal amounts of fatty acids—unsaturated & saturated—are released into the bloodstream when fats are mobilized, providing a mixture of fatty acids for tissues elsewhere. And finally, ingested fats are distributed throughout the body and, following the flow of blood, are stored & show up in various adipose tissue depots pronto. (Why in the corn oil study the percentage of linoleate in the subjects' adipose tissue remained unchanged for months, despite the massive quantities of corn oil employed, I don’t know, but we can speculate.)
So how much time does it actually take to fully renew our fat tissue? I can’t say for sure because there are too many variables involved in the complex machine that is the human body. But for most people, it should take significantly less than 4 years—assuming a perfect zero order decay process, as Dr. Peat has done—from the time when oil was ingested.--Andrew Kim