Contents - thoughts?
This is a constantly revised document as of 17 09 2026
PART I: The fat
1 · White, brown, beige
2 · Chain length: medium-chain fat bypasses the gate
3 · Saturation: oxidise or store
4 · Essential fatty acids at a 30 g floor
5 · EPA and DHA
6 · The glycerol
7 · How fat oxidation is measured
PART II: What sets the rate
8 · The deficit sets how much
9 · There is no daily disposal ceiling
10 · Where the rise is smaller
11 · The cap is a policy
12 · What is left of "throughput"
12b · Three ways to count a fat loss: the summary
PART III: The machinery, station by station
13 · ① Mobilisation
14 · ② Transport
15 · ③ The CPT1 gate
16 · ④ β-oxidation
17 · ⑤ Terminal disposal
PART IV: The liver's export door
18 · The measured plateau
18b · The export figure this reference rejects
19 · What the door caps
20 · Who this matters for
PART V: The closed loop
21 · No leak at the gut
22 · The bile objection
23 · No leak at the store
24 · How fat leaves
25 · Which is used first
PART VI: Eating fat does not train you to oxidise fat
26 · Falsified twice
27 · The isocaloric ketogenic diet, measured
27b · Where the "70–80% fat" figure comes from
28 · Ketones and lipolysis
29 · Adaptation takes days to weeks
PART VII: Same machinery, different buffers
30 · The personal fat threshold
31 · Line A and Line B
31b · Insulin resistance, station by station
31c · Which line a member is on: markers a practitioner can use
32 · Modifiers
32b · Two damage signatures
PART VIII: What raises fat oxidation, and what does not
33 · The rate per minute
34 · Training raises it
35 · Fasted cardio
36 · Cold and heat
37 · Supplements
37b · The road-block map
37b · The road-block map
37c · Subtract before you add
37d · The single most useful step
PART IX: THE 4-HOUR DIET
PART X: The evidence behind the plan's numbers
38 · The floors
39 · The cap and the minimum
39b · The day-cost multiplier: 1.3 and 1.49, both stated
40 · The throttle and the blocks
41 · What the machinery says about the plan
PART XI: The costs, and the stop signals
42 · Lean tissue
42b · Protein: what the range rests on, and where it stops working
43 · Adaptive suppression
44 · Sleep
45 · Appetite
46 · Gallstones
47 · The lean line
48 · Visceral fat
49 · Unloading
50 · Blood markers
50b · The stall decision tree
50c · Red flags: stop and seek care
50d · Before starting
PART XII: Where the drugs sit
50d-2 · Contraindications and cautions, as a grid
50e · Refeeding
50f · Uric acid and gout
50g · Kidney stones
50h · Bone
50i · The risks the plan carries, one row each
51 · Mechanism only
52 · Glucagon
53 · Liver fat
54 · What the 4-Hour Diet adds
PART XIII: What this is, and is not
55 · Limitations
56 · What would falsify this
57 · Open items
57a · Figures
58 · Corrections register
58b · Glossary
59 · The five sentences
PART XIV: The tissue, the person, the day
60 · Depots: not all white fat behaves the same
61 · Muscle's own fat store
62 · Getting fatty acid into the muscle cell
63 · Sex
64 · Age
65 · Menopause
66 · Thyroid
66b · Cortisol
66c · Growth hormone
66d · Oestrogen
66e · Testosterone
66f · Leptin and the appetite hormones
67 · Individual variation in the peak rate
68 · The overnight and the clock
69 · Meal frequency and time-restricted eating
70 · Protein's thermic cost
70b · Protein from isolates and free amino acids: energy, speed, thermic cost
71 · Fat oxidation after the session
72 · Fat-soluble vitamins at 30 g fat
PART XV: Counting a fat loss
73 · What a calorie is
74 · The electron model
75 · The three models compared
76 · Claims tested: counting, calories, mass and the electron model
ANNEX A: Every key study, one row each
ANNEX B: Search log
ANNEX C: Every dose and setting, three ways
References
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