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Re:Muscle memory discovery ends 'use it or lose it' dogma by tomp on Monday February 18, 2019 @06:50AM (#19190067)
Just be aware that (allegedly) your "fat gains" are also preserved - fat cells are only created, never destroyed, and those that exist, even if you starve them and they become smaller (i.e. lose fat/reduce body fat percentage), they'd still get "fat" much easier than growing new fat cells.

Or this might all just be bro-science, you never know ...

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Re:Muscle memory discovery ends 'use it or lose it' dogma by maxmcorp on Monday February 18, 2019 @07:03AM (#19190111)
There is some debate about this. Cells live for about 7 years, so after that the fat cells should also dissapear.

Autophagy might also recycle empty fat cells.

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