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There are multiple issues with this article: 1) Fat cells are strongly conserved. Your body "knows" how many fat cells it has and will replace them if you try
by bsder 3y ago
There are multiple issues with this article:
1) Fat cells are strongly conserved.
Your body "knows" how many fat cells it has and will replace them if you try to get rid of them.
This has the effect that liposuction doesn't work for weight loss. Your body simply puts the removed fat cells back somewhere else. There are studies about this.
My suspicion is that they are strongly conserved over the short term but over the long term can be adjusted. The body almost never supports an excess in something it doesn't need if it can get rid of it. However, there are no medical studies about this and they would be fairly difficult to carry out.
2) Fat cells absolutely get replaced. They have a half-life of somewhere between 2-3 years.
3) Fat cells "remember" the local chemical environment when created.
This means that fat cells "remember" your weight. This is one of the many mechanisms which fight you when you lose weight. It's why you have to maintain lower weight to get your setpoint moved down.
- paulpauper 3y agoThis is one of the many mechanisms which fight you when you lose weight. It's why you have to maintain lower weight to get your setpoint moved down. hmm by that logic people should not become obese to begin with if people are born not obese
- bsder 3y agoNote I said "one of many" mechanisms. For most people, what you said is true. As they gain weight their baseline appetite does decrease. The issue is that humans have lots of mechanisms to encourage eating more (for example: eating is generally pleasant--most people like a nice dessert even if they are full) and not a lot of mechanisms to encourage eating less.
- solumunus 3y agoWell, obviously.. People also shouldn’t become addicted to heroin in the first place when they aren’t born addicted to heroin! These are completely obvious and inane things to say.