Fat cells have a “memory”

[GreenTealael 25,383]

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.”

[Chatterboxdea 161]

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 you can tolerate better than most. It's crazy! People have believed that what they did in their life did not affect their kids genetics, but we now know thats untrue.

[Spinoza 1,403]

OMG fascinating article. Thanks GT!!!

[GreenTealael 25,383]

22 hours ago, Spinoza said:

OMG fascinating article. Thanks GT!!!

Anytime! I hope these posts/articles can help someone in someway.

[Mspretty86 311]

thanks! I'm so glad more studies are being done. Such a multifaceted Dis-Ease!