Feline FBM · 8.3

8 Skin, Coat, and Sebum System · 8.3 Greasy Coat

8.3 Greasy Coat

Feline Fat-Based Metabolism (Fat-Based Metabolism)

Definition

Greasy coat is an observable skin-sebum output, not a root cause. Coat oiliness, clumping, flatness, and surface texture are output signals.

They do not prove that dietary fat is directly being excreted through skin. Backtrace through Sebum Processing Rate, Local Skin Environment, Fat Freshness Boundary, Ingredient State, and energy regulation to upstream food structure.

Control Variables
1. Sebum processing rate

Synthesis, release, and surface expression pacing.

2. Local skin environment

Friction, grooming, and follicle-adjacent conditions.

3. Primary energy substrate

Long-term scheduling and tissue substrate context.

4. Fat freshness and ingredient state

Upstream food-structure inputs.

Causal Chain

upstream food structure

energy regulation and digestive fat handling

sebum processing rate and local skin environment

greasy coat (observable output / backtrace entry)

Observable Outputs

Greasy coat is the output layer signal. Related indices and coat condition outputs share the same backtrace rules.

Boundary
Clinical boundary layer

severe itching, wounds, exudate, odor, or rapid spread → Clinical Boundary Layer

Invalid readings

greasy coat = dietary fat excretion

greasy coat = allergy by default

Page duty

This page defines greasy coat as output only. Not a clinical diagnosis system, not a treatment protocol, not an effect-guarantee system.