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TAGs or FFA sensors

Does the body have any kind of sensor that feels an excess of TAGs or FFA in blood, so to be able to call for storage, like it does for glucose?

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free fatty acids in albumin in blood tests

Are free fatty acids in albumin completely ignored in blood tests? Isn't it important to check the amount of FFAs found in blood, in addition to the amount of TAGs?

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lack of oxygen during exercise

When there is a lack of oxygen during exercise, and the body is forced to turn off pyruvate dehydrogenase and use the anaerobic pathway, does the body shuts down the beta-oxidation?

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Glucose from muscles

When a fasting body decides to use muscles to get glucose, do all amino acids recruited for the task have to become pyruvate first, and then go through gluconeogenesis? Or are there any kind of short cut, where amino acids become glucose without having to be transformed in pyruvate?

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SCAD

What is the latest research re cause, prevention, prognosis, and treatment of SCAD, Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection, which I understand is the major cause of heart attacks and death from heart attacks in women 50 years and under?