Beta Oxidation vs. Lipolysis

Lipolysis: Is the breakdown of a triglyceride (Splitting the glycerol backbone from the fatty acid chains)

Beta Oxidation: The Breakdown of Free Fatty Acid Chains into Acetyl CoA

These processes work together to breakdown fat from adipose or from food.

Bonus fun facts:

Lipase is an enzyme produced in the pancreas that speeds up lipolysis

The 3 carbon glycerol from lipolysis can go through a process called gluconeogenesis (making new glucose)

Acetyl CoA (2 carbon molecule) can go to the mitochondria and enter the Krebs Cycle to produce ATP

00:14 Triglyceride molecule
00:38 Lipolysis
01:00 Beta Oxidation and Acetyl CoA
01:44 Glycerol

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