Fat cells have a “memory”
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Epigenetics are crazy fascinating! Like your ancestors went through a famine and now your body is programmed to receive/keep food nutrients differently or your ancestors ate a lot of a certain food so
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thanks! I'm so glad more studies are being done. Such a multifaceted Dis-Ease!
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An interesting article about “Fat Memory”
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03614-9
Key points:
•Fat cells have a ‘memory’ of obesity hinting at why it’s hard to keep weight off.
•Long-lasting changes to the cells’ epigenome are linked to a decline in their function.
•For fat cells, the shift in gene activity seems to render them incapable of their normal function.
•Even weight-loss surgery did not budge that pattern.
•The research is ongoing as “It’s not yet a causal link, It’s correlation. … We’re working on this.”