Understanding MCAD Deficiency

This is the disorder where your body forgets how to use its own fuel… at the WORST possible

time. Welcome to MCAD deficiency, a condition where your body tries

to burn fat for energy and your enzymes go, ‘Yeah… we don’t do that here.’ Normally,

when you run out of glucose, your body switches to breaking down fatty acids into

acetyl-CoA — the good stuff that keeps you alive. But with MCAD? That whole system

collapses. So instead of energy, your blood fills up with fatty acyl carnitines,

your glucose plummets, and you get hypoketotic hypoglycemia — which basically means: No sugar + no ketones

= your brain is NOT okay. What does that look like? Vomiting,