Tag: Non essential lipids

The human body can endogenously produce many lipids, meaning they are not required from the diet for survival. This critical physiological process involves the synthesis of certain fat molecules, which answers the question: which type of lipid is considered non-essential?

The human body can synthesize most of its required lipids from simpler precursors, a process known as 'de novo' synthesis. This means that while many lipids are vital for cellular function and energy storage, certain lipids are not essential to the diet because the body can produce them internally.