Peter Attia· MD
another fundamental aspect to understand is that the brain is not efficient in utilizing fat as a source of atp one thing that you notice after you dissect a brain is that you don't find you don't find fat depots that you find in your adipose tissue yes it's a fatty organ but there aren't really storage sites of fat it does not store fat to a large extent there are lipid droplets in the brain but they are more dynamic than the adipose tissue that we have outside and it prefers not to use fat as a source of atp it prefers to use fat to integrate into the myelin sheath or the synoptosome to regulate membrane fluidity to help with depolarization