Weight Loss Surgery Does Not Reduce Number Of Fat Cells
Bariatric surgery, also known as gastric bypass, may reduce the volume of fat in your fat cells, but it doesn’t reduce the number of fat cells in your body.
Even the most drastic reduction in caloric intake won’t change that number.
That’s because the number of fat cells in your body is established during your childhood and teen years. It doesn’t matter whether you’re fat or thin.
According to a new study of 687 adults from DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, weight gain in adulthood comes from an increase in body fat volume only.
So if you lose a lot of weight, you’re just reducing the volume of fat in your cells, but not the number of fat cells in your body.
Which means you continue to have the same capacity to store fat no matter how much weight you lose. That’s probably why it’s so hard to stay thin.
But the scientists are optimistic that this research can help them to develop new drugs to combat obesity, diabetes, and high blood pressure.
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