How does lowering blood sugar actually effect fat metabolism as on a diet?

Question

If you're about to tell me that insulin stores glucose in fat and muscle, anything about the Glycemic Index, etc then you're wasting time. I know that already.

I want an INTENSELY CHEMISTRY AND BIOLOGY based answer to how specifically lowered blood sugar levels will motivate the body chemically to favor adipose tissue metabolism. Specifically, the question comes from cinnamon - I'd always assumed that since it was an insulin 'substitute' that it would somehow be recognized by the receptors in the GI tract and tell the pancreas to lay off with insulin production, thus less glucose would be stored on a meal without cinnamon, but thinking of it that's really just called insulin insensitivity so that was a retarded idea arising from lack of thought on the matter.

So if you still have all the insulin the meal would normally give, and you've stored more glucose in muscles and liver and fat, um... how's that help you lose weight? **** I'm outta room, read extra below....

Fat weight, of course (not muscle mass!)

Only thing I can figure is that it makes you store stuff, which burns more calories than you ate after it's broken down again. Like, ok, insulin tells -> store! And the cells are like, ok; and active transports use energy to do the storage and atoms are bound and stuff happens so that while you ate and had in you 100 calories here, you really only end up storing a net of 85 in the end. Then your body says crap, low blood sugar - has to break down with glucogen taking more energy and tadah, you've burned more.

But usually since insulin is there it acts antagonistically with burning fat so lean muscle would be catabolized a lot then. SO that sounds bad for anyone who wants to be muscle large - this would only be good for women wanting to be stick thin.

Plus, while we're at it, we get tired when blood sugar's low yes? Why SPECIFICALLY? Are there receptors say in our pinkey toes that say to conserve energy, sugar's low? DETAILS!?

Thanks!

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All our body cells use glucose (sugar) for energy.
Everything we digest goes through the stomach and the
intestines and from the intestines, it goes to the liver for
processing...this includes carbohydrates, fats, sugars,
and proteins. The body will use the sugar first ...normally
known as glucose. When the glucose goes lower in the
body, usually between meals, it turns to the reserves it
has of glycogen, fats and proteins and starts to break them down and change them into glucose forms. This is known
as glycogenolysis.
http://biology.about.com/library/organs/bldigestliver5.htm

How is the fats broken down in the intestines to be absorbed
into the body? The liver makes biles, this bile flows through
tube like structures...known as ducts...to the gallbladder to
be concentrated and then released into the intestines when
we eat fats. (It acts like a detergent that breaks up the
grease in dishes we wash.) It breaks down the fats.
http://arbl.cvmbs.colostate.edu/hbooks/pathphys/digestion/liver/bile.html

Here is a metabolic pathway site that will describe to you
alot more: http://www.gwu.edu/~mpb/

There are two types of fats in our body:
Cholesterol which is used when our cells die. It is used
to make new cell membrances. Triglycerides are used
for energy and will be stored. When we go low on
glucose, the liver naturally will change this to glucose form
to be used by the cells for energy, no matter what cells
they are, muscle, organs, brain, etc.

I hope this gives you the information you needed. This
is the best I could do.

To know more about how glucose is broken down to form
energy...you might want to look into the Kreb cycle and
the Cori cycle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kreb's_cycle
http://www.johnkyrk.com/krebs.html

As the body exercises and even as we function during the
day, the body is constantly using glucose as its form of
energy. Insulin is what opens the door to the cells to let
the glucose enter so the cells can use them for energy.
Without insulin, the glucose would stay in our blood and
the blood levels of this would keep rising. It is a well
known fact that as we exercise, we use alot of the
sugar in the blood up and therefore need less insulin.
If the levels in the blood go too low from not eatting or
over exercising without replacing the glucose, it can be
just as dangerous... as we would feel faint, start shaking,
and could easily die cause the cells are starving without
this energy source. Eatting a diet low in sugar and low
in carbohydrates, helps the person who has diabetes
control their weight...however, they cannot eliminate it
completely as the body needs some of these food for
certain vitamins and minerals. There are also a
certain amount of fats that we need also...it is better to
use good fats like olive oil than to use saturated fats that
tend to just build up in our vessels.

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