Turning over our fat stores: the key to metabolic health Blaxter Award Lecture 2018

• Published in: Proceedings of the Nutrition Society Vol. 78; no. 3; pp. 398 - 406
• Main Author: Frayn, Keith N.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01.08.2019
• Subjects: Abnormalities; Adipocytes; Adipose tissue; Adipose Tissue - metabolism; Adipose Tissue - physiology; Amino acids; biomedical research; Blaxter Award Lecture; Blood Glucose - analysis; Body fat; Body Fat Distribution; body mass index; Buffers; Conference on ‘Getting energy balance right’; Councils; Deposition; Diabetes; dietary fat; Enzymes; Fat metabolism; Fatty acids; Female; Fluxes; free fatty acids; glucose; Glucose metabolism; Hospitals; Human subjects; Humans; Insulin resistance; lipid metabolism; Lipid Metabolism - physiology; Lipodystrophy - metabolism; Lipodystrophy - physiopathology; liver; Male; Medical research; Metabolism; Metabolites; Nutrition; Nutrition research; Nutrition Society Summer Meeting 2018; nutritional status; Nutritionists; Obesity; Obesity - metabolism; Obesity - physiopathology; Parenteral nutrition; Patients; Physiology; Trauma; Veins & arteries; Obesity; Adipose tissue; Fat deposition; Fat mobilisation; LPL lipoprotein lipase

The present paper results from my receiving the Nutrition Society's first Blaxter Award, and describes briefly my academic history. My interest in human fat metabolism began in the Medical Research Council's Trauma Unit, studying metabolic changes in critically ill patients and their respo...