The liver converts excess energy into fat and exports it via VLDL as a short-term protective measure when carbohydrate tolerance is exceeded.

“everything we're talking about here is the body's aim to protect itself from an abundance of nutrition and so that's how i read this is the body is doing and specifically the liver which is arguably the most important organ in this situation the liver is really trying to protect us and it's saying i'm making so much extra fat right now because you as my individual are so far above your carbohydrate consumption tolerance your tolerance for carbohydrate consumption and this is the most efficient thing i can do which is turn that into fat send it out via the vldl get that into the adipose site”