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Fat cells 'remember' being bigger–and act like it
- _zagj 2y agoLink to the paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08165-7 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08165-7
- bdangubic 2y agomy fat cells never forgot so there is nothing to remember :)
- wumeow 2y ago> When a person gains weight, the number of fat-storing cells in their body doesn’t change; instead, each one expands to store more fat within it by changing the way it responds to and stores nutrients. Is this true? I thought the number of fat cells increase when you gain weight but don't decrease when you lose it. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29991030/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29991030/ > A decrease in body weight only changes fat cell size (becoming smaller), whereas an increase in body weight causes elevation of both fat cell size and number in adults.
- _zagj 2y agoSupposedly adipocyte hyperplasia is even more common during childhood weight gain.