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I'm not talking about your weight, I'm talking about the fuel source for the brain. The body runs on fat, the brain runs on fat. It can, when available, also use glucose - but the entire metabolic system tries to keep glucose levels low and consistent rather then spiked and high.
If you are talking about storing sugar as fat then you are talking about weight.
Sure, humans are lipvores we store fat we run on fat, stored fat is often seen as weight.
Regardless if a person is skinny, fat, or in between their brain can run on fat.
Can doesn't mean ought.
Ahh! let's talk about ought!
Since humans store fat, one could see mechanistically we are setup to run on the energy we store: fat
When humans go more then 4 hours without eating glucose (skipping a meal, keto, fasting, or sleeping) they are running on fat, including the brain. If you want to prevent your brain from using fat you need to drip feed glucose all day (which some people try really hard to do), but when you sleep some of that fat will finally get to be used by the brain. One could reasonably argue the default energy of the human body is fat, hence why it's used during sleep.
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/molecular-neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnmol.2016.00053/full#h7
The body will use glucose when available, because glucose is so damaging to cells - glycation happens rapidly. As soon as any glucose elevations are seen in the blood stream insulin is immediately released to push glucose into fat cells and get blood glucose levels back to the low normal.
However, I'm open to being wrong: Why 'ought' the brain use glucose instead of fat?
This is a cooking group. While nutrition is an aspect of that this is not a nutrition group.
Post your cooking. Not too much. Mostly tasty.