Re:Scientist busts myths about how humans burn calories
by bsder on Friday February 18, 2022 @02:29AM
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It's been a while. IIRC, it was from an article discussing the fact that radioactive fallout allows critical measurements of cellular lifetimes and that in about 25 years the fallout levels will be too low to do the experiments. I'll see if I can cough it up.
> The carbon-14 fat-cell study also revealed that fat cells don’t last forever. Fat or thin, your body replaces roughly 10% of your fat cells every year. If you have more fat cells to begin with, you’ll have more fat cells to replace.
I can't seem to find the study talking about how fat cells remember the chemical environment when they are created.
Sorry, medium link: https://prosetech.medium.com/what-nuclear-bombs-tell-us-abou...
> The carbon-14 fat-cell study also revealed that fat cells don’t last forever. Fat or thin, your body replaces roughly 10% of your fat cells every year. If you have more fat cells to begin with, you’ll have more fat cells to replace.
I can't seem to find the study talking about how fat cells remember the chemical environment when they are created.