The real question is: "Does your body make new fat cells when you gain weight?" If it does then every time you lose then gain back a significant amount of weight you have more fat cells and your body becomes more and more effecient at storing fat, making losing weight harder the next time.
After the adipocytes are depleted, it takes about two years for the excess adipocytes to be broken down. The adipocytes that the body needs will not go away, but the excess cells will.
@@piecesofme8531 No. Since weight loss is a long process especially if you're heavier, you can probably start that timer from the start or a few months after the start of said weight loss journey. The cells you've already depleted by then will break down 2 years from that mark. Only if you don't put it back on tho.
The thing I'd heard but never bothered to confirm is that adipose cells will divide as they grow, because of optimal cell-size issues, but then when they shrink they don't die out, and that supposedly this is part of the reason why it is harder to keep weight off once gained. I wish this video explored this concept.
There were some videos a while back that explained what happens to the weight that you lose, and it was sort of surprising: you breathe out most of it. The fat itself leaves as the carbon in CO2.
Hey random internet people, if you have trouble losing weight, trying eating ≤ 10% of your calories from carbs, ~70% from fat, and ~20% protein. Fat doesn't make you fat; saturated fat nor cholesterol clog arteries; carbs cause immense oxidative stress (look into glycation) and will lead to excess fat storage. The power of independent research! Scientific/nutritional norms take decades to change, but you can change your health whenever you want.
To say low carb diets are a fad, is to ignore the fact that human beings, genetically identical to ourselves, ate incredibly low carb/high fat diets for *literally* millions of years. Carb sources were in-season fruit (infrequent), and honey (which is guarded by bees and also an infrequent carb source). Wild berries, veggies, roots also contain carbohydrates. Why would you assume I'm not an academic? I'm just not subscribed to the mainstream nutritional dogmas. My views have changed because of quality science. Here's a study outlining carbohydrate oxidative stress. drperlmutter.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/2-AGE-BRAIN.pdf It's much easier to lose weight via caloric deficits and exercise, when you're on a low carb diet, therefore in fat burning mode. See ketosis: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23801097 (This also outlines other benefits of a low carb diet). It's unknown if humans evolved in a state of ketosis, but it's known to be part of healthy metabolism. I'm going to assume you're an academic, and I'll ignore your random accusation that I haven't studied this. Err on the side of caution when accusing someone of not doing research. I know this is RUclips, but it's also SciShow. Here's a fun case study just to get you thinking about alternate approaches to health. drperlmutter.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/15-schizo-gluten-ketogenic-case.pdf Do you own research. My views are constantly shifting in an ever-evolving field.
Look at what else just appeared on my Timeline. Special type of low carb (which necessitates high dietary fat intake) is putting people into IBD remission. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/12/161228171130.htm Carbs contribute to inflammation in the gut (and fermentation/dysbiosis issues in the intestines).
The unintended consequence of liposuction is that your fat elsewhere inflates faster when you put on weight. So if you hypothetically removed all the fat from your belly, but didn't make any changes to your energy intake/expenditure, then you would find your back, arms, face, legs and rump putting on weight even quicker than before.
Same speed, basically each adipose cell is like a member of a pirate crew, each getting a cut of the spoils. The fewer pirates there are in the crew, the bigger cut each remaining pirate gets. If you eat enough to put on 1lb of fat then you put on 1lb of fat all other things being equal. The choice is putting it on evenly across your whole body, or evenly across everywhere except your belly.
Emma Worthington Exactly. Also, your body might still consider your previous weight to be your default weight. If it does , your body will try to readjust things until you're back at that weight.
TurboCMinusMinus Don't forget doctors (usually rhose who don't specialize in nutrition) who like to judge patients, rather than educating themselves. The response one of my roommates gets always makes me feel sick. "Obviously your knee pain is entirely from your weight. It has nothing to with the untreated injury from a car accident you had as a teenager, and I'm not going to bother looking into it suddenly being worse, because you're overweight. I mean, so what if your weight has remained the same but the pain is suddenly much worse. Obviously you just need to exercise."
Something that wasn't really touched on in the video is how we can increase not only the size but also the number of fat cells. If you consume excessive energy your fats cells will get bigger, but they can only do this to a point. After which, your body need to create more cells. If you lose weight (fat) the fat cells will shrink in size, but they will (generally) not reduce in number. So now they have even more cells 'wanting' to gain fat.
Well it's true that your body wouldn't need to expend anymore energy creating new fat cells. Also, if you've recently lost weight, you may have leptin resistance which would temporarily slightly lower your metabolism.
TurboCMinusMinus Certain factors affect metabolism. Being tall and a male increases your metabolism. Genetics can affect it too. Aside from that, weight gain happens when you consume more calories than you need to maintain your weight. It doesn't matter much if the calories come from junk food or more nutritious food. Perhaps those people you speak of have high metabolisms, don't actually consume that many calories, or just don't eat like you think they do.
no way, big boned is a thing. I am big boned. it's literally what it says in the name. bigger, denser bones than normal. example: I am 185cm tall and weigh 99Kg. people tell me that I am not fat (I'm not skinny but have a little fat, yes). for me to be OK, I have to weigh around 80Kg and I was told that it was impossible for me because I have dense bones. the lowest I got was 89Kg and I was Very good :)
Okay, fat cells are never destroyed or consumed. However, are they created? If someone gains more and more weight, are new fat cells created? Also, it seems like a pretty strong statement to say they are *never* destroyed or consumed. Is there any situation where the body might disposed of a fat cell, or consume a fat cell?
Once the adipocytes in a fat deposit become large enough(size for this varies depending of the type of fat deposit), preadipocytes multiply and differentiate into fat cells.
Laff700 Okay, does this part mean that fat cells can be created but not destroyed? Or is there a reverse process -- if there's too little fat, nearly empty cells may be destroyed, consumed, transformed. If fat cells can be created by not destroyed, that might make dieting a devil of a job, especially if there's a drive to fill the fat cells.
John Randomness Well, fat cells get created and die all the time. These rates are usually equal though. If you gain more fat cells then the create rate will rise above the die rate for a while and they'll then equalize again. It's hypothetically possible to hinder fat cell creation and decrease the total number of fat cells. I don't think that has been figured out yet though.
Perfect timing - 1)I'm on the 100 days with John 2) My elderly Mum needs to gain weight desperately but is scared of eating anything - esp if she thinks it's "fatty" or "sugary" *sigh
Over long periods of over-eating, you can create new fat cells, and after long periods of time at a lower body weight, you can lose a small percentage of your fat cells.
Thank you for making this video and i learned something interesting because of your efforts, i really appreciate the time you took too produce this video.
Yes. If your current fat cells get full but you continue to take on excess fat, your body produces more fat cells to store it in. That is part of why it is very hard to keep weight off after you lose a lot: The fat cells are still there, and they are very good at their job of taking in fat to store.
Yes. The ones you have will always remain but shrink or grow in size. New ones can also be made but that usually comes after the first step and as you gain more fat.
They left out that fat cells can also increase in number once they're filled to capacity (capacity is pretty high though). That's part of why people who lose a lot of weight often gain it back. Once the number increases, the person then has more fat cells sending signals saying that they're too empty if the person loses significant weight.
Stephen Niewiarowski I guessed that much. I meant it more as a meme. Thanks for confirming my theory. Speaking of diet: I've heard that you can eat in 15min as many calories as you would burn by running 24h straight. Which is a pretty depressing thought. On the other hand, your muscles burn energy, no matter if you need their full potential or not. (I guess the latter is oversimplified). Thus building up muscles allows losing weight faster than doing cardio all the time (which would reduce muscle mass over time). BTW: there are apparently various types of fat cells too. Some seem adapted at keeping us/animals warm in cold climates and others are more for energy storage as needed for hunter-gatherers.
edi Ah. Makes sense :) I think that being able to eat enough in 15 minutes to outweigh 24 hours of running is incorrect, but I could be mistaken. The body typically can absorb only so many calories at a time, and running for that long can burn a huge amount of calories. It might be possible though, especially if those 15 minutes are spread out over a longer time period haha You're right about muscle being very important to weight loss, but the part on cardio might be a bit off. I think you have it right in your head, but it's hard for me to tell for sure from the comment. Cardio is much more effective/quick for losing weight (and builds muscles too), but weightlifting-type exercise often helps more for keeping fat off once it's lost. Like you said, aside from the energy required to repair muscle after a workout and to build new muscle, the body constantly uses a good amount of energy to maintain muscle mass. This adds to resting metabolism which can be extremely important for preventing additional fat gain and for keeping fat off once lost. I personally have had much more weight loss success with building muscle than I did with dieting, but both done well are very useful, and there may be a genetic component that makes either more useful for different people. Unfortunately, it can be hard to convince people to lose weight through exercising (especially weightlifting) since the weight of the additional muscle sometimes prevents the number on the scale from changing much. The fat that helps generate heat is called brown fat. Its color is different because it has more mitochondria than other fat does. While mitochondria are normally rather efficient, the mitochondria in brown fat purposefully operate inefficiently so that more energy is converted to heat instead of things like movement. Thanks for your comment. I enjoyed going into more detail.
Stephen Niewiarowski If I'm not mistaken, a pound of butter contains more energy, than a pound of TNT. However, butter can only burn slowly, unless you boil it and dump a glass of water in it (in that case the explosion is strong enough to severely damage a small house, but still nowhere near a pound of TNT). So I guess eating butter or ice might do the trick. Eating the same amount of sugar will probably kill you. BTW: Humans seem to have evolved to run or wander huge distances to gather food (unlike the beasts that could outrun us with ease and have thus more calories to burn). There was really a guy recorded running 24h straight, but that's something most of us couch-potatoes and pc-heros can only dream about (in our nightmares).
Jake Lakinger not necessarily. You would still have fat cells remaining in your body. Liposuction only removes the ones in the target area. In the event that a person who gets liposuction ends up in a situation where they are clinically starving, they may regret the removal of their fat cells.
Regina Drake-Parguey Well, I had an injury that destroyed a good portion of fat cells, and now I'm prone to pressure wounds, so it can be dangerous in other ways as well.
necrogenesis1981 I would wonder if it would be different with controlled suctioning though. Because in the case of liposuction, a doctor is performing the procedure and following protocols to keep you safe. In the case of an injury, you're losing whatever tissue gets damaged.
Hey Sci-Show, there is this new procedure called "Coolsculpting" that freezes and destroys fat cells. I'd love to see a video addressing the procedure. It is apparently approved by the FDA but still seems sketchy.
That's quite easy. When you're in water, you don't lose heat that quickly. But when you step out, you've got lots of little drops of water on your body which evaporate quickly and take heat away from your body rapidly. Hence you feel cold.
As someone who is very skinny and close to being _under_weight, would eating a lot create new fat cells? Because, even when I did start to eat more, I never noticed any real change in size.
angeldude101 yeah. find a calorie counter and find out how many calories you need to eat daily to maintain your weight, then eat around 200-250 calories more than that until you hit a desired weight/look. eat more to gain faster. when you hit that weight find your new maintainence and eat that. weight loss works the same way. the catch is you have to count absolutely everything you eat and drink in a certain time period (Cal's/day maybe)
Ab workouts are great and everything but make sure to mix it with high intensity cardio to burn calories, otherwise you're just going to end up with stronger abs under the same layer of belly fat.
Nerd moment. "like any other cell in your body, your fat cells have a nucleus" The most common cell in your body, the erythrocyte (Red blood cell) has no nucleus.
I seem to recall fat cells do have a lifespan (about 7 years?). I don't know to what extent new ones are produced under what level of stimuli, but I think it's quite possible that you can effectively grow or shrink the number of actual fat cells over time through long-term diet. I don't know if, in a low-fat circumstance, fat cells might be re-metabolized - it might be possible, given that cells with no utility are just a net drain on the system so recycling might be beneficial. Of course, you could always take various measures to actually physically destroy the cells (surgeries and so forth) if all else fails...
What about alternatives to remove the triglycerides like Zerona 635nM laser , activating the photon receptor on the fat cell , getting it to release the same way the adrenaline does?
as a follow up, does that hold true even when cells die? we're constantly begin "renovated" so does the body replace fat cells that are not being used?
I'mma make mostly everything that tastes good. Bad for their health. And I'mma make most things that are good for them. Taste bad. That makes sense. The humans will like that. I'll make one of the easiest things in the world gaining weight. Even though it's terrible. And I'll make one of the hardest things in the world losing weight. even though most people want/need that. That also makes sense. I'm amazing. Creating AND helping humans. Theyre gonna like me so much. -God
MJD7 Gaming evolution and adaptation says we like "bad" things because in nature there isnt much, and food is an uncertainty, so if its there you need to get it
Early humans needed lots of energy to hunt down animals which they eat afterwards. Thus early humans needed high fat and energy foods, thus early humans developed taste receptors to like high fat food. Today people consume high fat food but don't do enough exercise to balance the energy outcome out not like what early humans did. However, humans soon will develop a taste for nutritional food like salads etc. in future. Why? because evolution Lol it would be fun seeing a future kid asks his parents for brocolli and refusing to eat chocolate.
MJD7 Gaming not exactly. Never in the history of human evolution have we ever had such processed foods to choose from. Processed foods are designed to keep you wanting more, buying more, and be kind of an explosion on taste. You brain gets more pleasure from overly salty/sugary/fatty foods because they're not as prevalent in such high concentrations in nature and they are very important for your body's health in the right amounts. Fruit has natural sugars that can be used for instant energy. Fats, like those in nuts, seeds, and animal products are denser in calories and harder to access, but would keep you satisfied for longer and it was easier to over eat them and store fat, for a time of famine, so your body could tap into those fat stores for energy and not die. As for sodium, it is present amongst other crucial minerals for health in natural foods like leafy greens and sodium is important for electrolyte regulation. The good news is your body is very adapogenic, it gets used to the norm. So once you change your lifestyle and stop eating processed junk food or out at restaurants and start eating good quality whole, plant based, foods you taste buds change and start to prefer the healthier foods. Also, it will change your gut bacteria because plant foods are rich in prebiotics. Which the good bacteria feed off of and multiply, changing your microbiome, which in turn changes your cravings. Then, before you know it you'll be craving broccoli!
Would that mean that somebody who has gone through a fat suction, and then even managed to become skinny would become hungry (or at least be in need of eating) more frequently since they would lack these seemingly finite energy storing cells? or would the cells regenerate in a way that all lost cells would be replaced? And if that is the case, how does the body know when it has enough fat cells?
I've been eating a ton of food this year but still getting leaner! I might plateau until spring (September) if I don't reach my goal before march. Then the quest for 7% body fat will begin once again!
here i eat 5+ times a day up to $500 a month of food and i still cant gain weight or enough required to build muscle mass then i run out of money and cant afford it, how do you guys do it? it's ridiculous
do you use after and pre-workout supplements? your body actually creates chemicals that break down muscle after you work out, those supplements stop them.
atm im not lifting anymore due to moved house and no job cause cant afford it. i used to use preworked like jack3d before it got banned, but post workout is optimum nutrition 100% whey and a 2/3 serve of weight gainer then eat 1-2 hours after it
well training a lot adds metabolism speed, being 80kg 10% bodyfat having more muscle mass raises basal metabolic rate, also eating every 2.5-3 hours increases speed of metabolism because your body is constantly working to break down food with no rest gaps. edit: also body type affects metabolism by 30% ecto - meso - endo, im ectomorph. cafeine can help temporarily for around 15% metabolism rate
Have you actually counted how many calories you eat a day? Metabolism, or how many calories you burn in a day, really only varies by a few hundred calories. All that -morph stuff is bunk.
so that would mean lipo suction cuts out your own cells. Like a sponge that shrinks when water leaves it, I bet your body shape is weird after losing weight and lipo.
Why does the exposure levels on most of your videos keep fluctuating? It's been like that for years. Pretty sure it's not on my end, since it's like that for an device I view it in. Also, I've only ever encountered it on SciShow vids. Great content though,
I'd like to know why and how fats and oils go rancid, and why it is that the fatty acids in the adipocytes don't. Is it just that fats and oils in foods are just being broken down by microbes, or is there something else going on (maybe a process like how corn changes its sugars to starch when the cob gets plucked from the plant)?
Just be mindful that there's more to weight loss than just doing cardio. I'm training for an Ironman later this year and as my workouts get longer, my belly gets fatter. My weight gain isn't just trading fat for muscle, I'm definitely packing on belly fat despite doing 3 or 4 or 5 hours of exercise a day. I didn't gain weight for the first few months of my training, but then training sessions were typically only 1 to 2 hours. It's only after I moved up to these much longer sessions that the weight gain kicked in. Obviously yes, I eat an awful lot now to recover from so many hours of exercise, but there's also the matter of elevated cortisol levels that can really pack on pounds quickly. I'm sure there are plenty of other factors involved. So unless you have a specific goal, like an Ironman, don't just assume more exercise is always better. There is a point of not just diminishing returns, but of actual reversal leading back to weight gain. Some exercise is great, too much is not...
if you get liposuction, that removes cells, right? does that mean if you gain the weight back, your fat cells regenerate, or do they each grow larger than ever? does the number go up as you gain weight in general?
Richard trujillo The fight or flight reaction basically helps you loose weight because of the physical tension it puts on your body. It diverts more blood to the muscles instead of the intestines which increases energy consumption while reducing energy absorption and storage.
This raises a lot of questions when it comes to liposuction. If lipo sucks out the cells directly, does that mean that someone who has had it done has permanently lost the ability to store fat on that portion of their body, or will the body regenerate the lost fat cells?
I don't know how to ask my question, I feel stuck being 150lbs at 30 years old because it's been just about half my life if not more that I've been this size. If I eat enough to gain weight I feel sick. I wonder if it's just my body can't break down enough energy to gain the needed fat cells? I know everyone is different but sometimes skinny is a curse.
I think that this is a very good educational video that has something everyone can take something from. I don't think that people realize that it doesn't matter how much you work out, you will still have some fat cells and that is a good thing. I do not think that people know that they do protect their body and keep it warm, we wouldn't be able to function well without fat cells. With this new workout craze people are trying to get rid of all of their fat but in reality some fat it healthy.
Can you do a video on the science behind coolsculpting? Because You said adipocytes never really go away or die but supposedly with coolsculpt because it uses a freezing method the adipocytes go into apoptosis, which "eliminates" the adipocytes for good. I was just wondering if this was true?
Mr Aranda thanks for your video but I do not think you answered the questions I was hoping that you would answer. The following questions are seriously extremely difficult questions to find answers for on youtube & could you or anyone please help me answer them: Do fat cells completely die on their own, as we are constantly aging, or do they only die if surgery such as liposuction, or mesotherapy caused them to completely die? Also, are fat cells a fixed number from birth or does the human body have the ability to make new fat cells to replace the ones that died?
why do I feel like doing something that is see infront of me? i.e. i see someone eating then I'll feel like eating or see someone scratching their heads will make me scratch my head.
How does this work with liposuction? I'd assume that, because it removes the cells altogether, it would affect how difficult it is too gain and lose weight. Because there are fewer cells available do they grow faster to compensate for the excess of nutrients moving around the body that the other fat cells are no longer taking up, or do your kidneys filter it out of your system before the fat cells you have left can take it up? Anyone know?
I have so many question though ._. I thought fat is a molecule, so it's a cell? I thought cells grows by multiplying, not increasing in size. And let's say an obese person works out and gets back in shape, what happens to the fat cells? Why do people who want/ in a weight loss diet are suggested to eat low calorie food? I thought calorie is a form of energy, not fat. If anyone happens to know the answer of these questions I would like to know :)
Alright SciShow, what’s the deal with essential oils? My mother keeps telling me they’ll cure my headaches, regulate my menstrual cycle, and cure other ailments. I’m highly skeptical.
So wait a second, if fat cells are good insulators, is this why fat people can usually tolerate colder temperatures? I'm quite skinny, and I find myself preferring much higher ambient temperatures than most people. (24-25 C).
ummm yes, thats exactly why fat people tolerate cold much better. it can't be the first you're hearing this....you can't possibly be serious. its like whale blubber......for humans.
I can tolerate the cold a bit and I'm slightly overweight but the thing is, I wear a sweater much longer than anyone else does My siblings and others around me: it's so hot today, how can you (me) stay comfortable in that sweater?!?! Me: I'm good as long as I don't think about the heat
Can I be really slim having high fat cell count? I lost 34kg (~75lbs), being at 72kg (~160lbs) but still have like ... loose skin(?) on the belly, its not that its a thin loose skin, its like I can pinch it and its like a semi-thick raw bacon :(
The real question is: "Does your body make new fat cells when you gain weight?" If it does then every time you lose then gain back a significant amount of weight you have more fat cells and your body becomes more and more effecient at storing fat, making losing weight harder the next time.
RMoribayashi. Yes. Please top this question!!!!
The fat cells shrink or get bigger
And if they don't, that means Liposuction is potentially harmful if done wantonly
Your body creates almost all the fat cells you'll have in your lifetime as an adolescent
@@corebore7o7 Yup, thats why nutrition as a child is so important for adulthood.
After the adipocytes are depleted, it takes about two years for the excess adipocytes to be broken down. The adipocytes that the body needs will not go away, but the excess cells will.
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No wonder it's so hard to keep weight off after losing it.
So if someone maintains 10% body fat for two years, they’ll finally start losing the excess fat cells…
If true, this is great news. Do you have a source for this?
@@piecesofme8531 No. Since weight loss is a long process especially if you're heavier, you can probably start that timer from the start or a few months after the start of said weight loss journey. The cells you've already depleted by then will break down 2 years from that mark. Only if you don't put it back on tho.
I asked my butcher if he sold lean meat. No, he said... fat cells.
I hate you so much right now... :P
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That makes me want to cry. Someone hand me an adipose tissue.
Master Therion I'm gonna kill myself now... My hope for Humanity is gone...
your attitude towards fat really burns me up. if you don't like fat, try glyceride.
That's the best joke of 2017 so far :)
The thing I'd heard but never bothered to confirm is that adipose cells will divide as they grow, because of optimal cell-size issues, but then when they shrink they don't die out, and that supposedly this is part of the reason why it is harder to keep weight off once gained. I wish this video explored this concept.
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After two years, excess adipose cells will break down if not used, so I wouldn’t worry.
in starvation situations these cells can be broken down.
Dylan T When starving you are also denying energy (starvation=slower fat burn) and nutrients to your brain therefore causing it work less effectively.
and your point is?
Dylan T yeah after the body eats your muscles, which is why starving isnt the solution to weight loss
I agree, i'm just saying fat cells can be destroyed in extreme situations.
Yeah I was in the hospital and lost so much muscle not eating for a week. I've lost more muscle then fat..
I used to think they got pooped out 😅
There were some videos a while back that explained what happens to the weight that you lose, and it was sort of surprising: you breathe out most of it. The fat itself leaves as the carbon in CO2.
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Hey random internet people, if you have trouble losing weight, trying eating ≤ 10% of your calories from carbs, ~70% from fat, and ~20% protein. Fat doesn't make you fat; saturated fat nor cholesterol clog arteries; carbs cause immense oxidative stress (look into glycation) and will lead to excess fat storage.
The power of independent research! Scientific/nutritional norms take decades to change, but you can change your health whenever you want.
To say low carb diets are a fad, is to ignore the fact that human beings, genetically identical to ourselves, ate incredibly low carb/high fat diets for *literally* millions of years. Carb sources were in-season fruit (infrequent), and honey (which is guarded by bees and also an infrequent carb source). Wild berries, veggies, roots also contain carbohydrates.
Why would you assume I'm not an academic? I'm just not subscribed to the mainstream nutritional dogmas. My views have changed because of quality science. Here's a study outlining carbohydrate oxidative stress. drperlmutter.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/2-AGE-BRAIN.pdf
It's much easier to lose weight via caloric deficits and exercise, when you're on a low carb diet, therefore in fat burning mode. See ketosis: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23801097 (This also outlines other benefits of a low carb diet). It's unknown if humans evolved in a state of ketosis, but it's known to be part of healthy metabolism.
I'm going to assume you're an academic, and I'll ignore your random accusation that I haven't studied this. Err on the side of caution when accusing someone of not doing research. I know this is RUclips, but it's also SciShow. Here's a fun case study just to get you thinking about alternate approaches to health.
drperlmutter.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/15-schizo-gluten-ketogenic-case.pdf
Do you own research. My views are constantly shifting in an ever-evolving field.
Look at what else just appeared on my Timeline. Special type of low carb (which necessitates high dietary fat intake) is putting people into IBD remission. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/12/161228171130.htm
Carbs contribute to inflammation in the gut (and fermentation/dysbiosis issues in the intestines).
LCHF is awesome!
Well, they go away in liposuction. what effect does liposuction have on your body?
The unintended consequence of liposuction is that your fat elsewhere inflates faster when you put on weight. So if you hypothetically removed all the fat from your belly, but didn't make any changes to your energy intake/expenditure, then you would find your back, arms, face, legs and rump putting on weight even quicker than before.
Any quicker than had you not grown the extra fat cells on your belly in the first place?
Same speed, basically each adipose cell is like a member of a pirate crew, each getting a cut of the spoils. The fewer pirates there are in the crew, the bigger cut each remaining pirate gets.
If you eat enough to put on 1lb of fat then you put on 1lb of fat all other things being equal. The choice is putting it on evenly across your whole body, or evenly across everywhere except your belly.
Sabrina Kane Yarr. Thanks.
Sabrina Kane I love that analogy
This one makes me wonder about the potential dangers of liposuction
Yes, liposuction is bad, it destroys the fat cells.
that is good only way to completely remove them , if one has excess in cell which often happens to those needing to lose weight
so when you were fat and you've lost weight..... that's why it's so easy to gain it back because the shrunk cells just fill back up
Emma Worthington Exactly. Also, your body might still consider your previous weight to be your default weight. If it does , your body will try to readjust things until you're back at that weight.
TurboCMinusMinus Don't forget doctors (usually rhose who don't specialize in nutrition) who like to judge patients, rather than educating themselves. The response one of my roommates gets always makes me feel sick.
"Obviously your knee pain is entirely from your weight. It has nothing to with the untreated injury from a car accident you had as a teenager, and I'm not going to bother looking into it suddenly being worse, because you're overweight. I mean, so what if your weight has remained the same but the pain is suddenly much worse. Obviously you just need to exercise."
Something that wasn't really touched on in the video is how we can increase not only the size but also the number of fat cells. If you consume excessive energy your fats cells will get bigger, but they can only do this to a point. After which, your body need to create more cells. If you lose weight (fat) the fat cells will shrink in size, but they will (generally) not reduce in number. So now they have even more cells 'wanting' to gain fat.
Well it's true that your body wouldn't need to expend anymore energy creating new fat cells. Also, if you've recently lost weight, you may have leptin resistance which would temporarily slightly lower your metabolism.
TurboCMinusMinus Certain factors affect metabolism. Being tall and a male increases your metabolism. Genetics can affect it too. Aside from that, weight gain happens when you consume more calories than you need to maintain your weight. It doesn't matter much if the calories come from junk food or more nutritious food. Perhaps those people you speak of have high metabolisms, don't actually consume that many calories, or just don't eat like you think they do.
When someone says they're big boned they're just being fat.
ThunderGun2 Or they are half giants who spend all day around little kids...showing them his "monster@
no way, big boned is a thing. I am big boned. it's literally what it says in the name. bigger, denser bones than normal. example: I am 185cm tall and weigh 99Kg. people tell me that I am not fat (I'm not skinny but have a little fat, yes). for me to be OK, I have to weigh around 80Kg and I was told that it was impossible for me because I have dense bones. the lowest I got was 89Kg and I was Very good :)
Rumour has it the legend 27 can make his fat cells go away
Okay, fat cells are never destroyed or consumed. However, are they created? If someone gains more and more weight, are new fat cells created?
Also, it seems like a pretty strong statement to say they are *never* destroyed or consumed. Is there any situation where the body might disposed of a fat cell, or consume a fat cell?
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Once the adipocytes in a fat deposit become large enough(size for this varies depending of the type of fat deposit), preadipocytes multiply and differentiate into fat cells.
Laff700
Okay, does this part mean that fat cells can be created but not destroyed? Or is there a reverse process -- if there's too little fat, nearly empty cells may be destroyed, consumed, transformed.
If fat cells can be created by not destroyed, that might make dieting a devil of a job, especially if there's a drive to fill the fat cells.
John Randomness Well, fat cells get created and die all the time. These rates are usually equal though. If you gain more fat cells then the create rate will rise above the die rate for a while and they'll then equalize again. It's hypothetically possible to hinder fat cell creation and decrease the total number of fat cells. I don't think that has been figured out yet though.
Nutritional physiology is a fascinating subject, and you guys are keeping it clean and simple for almost everyone to understand.
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Perfect timing - 1)I'm on the 100 days with John
2) My elderly Mum needs to gain weight desperately but is scared of eating anything - esp if she thinks it's "fatty" or "sugary" *sigh
why do I keep seeing anus jokes lol
Because our life purpose is to learn and share memes. Internet memes too.
Wojtek Kiraga I think our life purpose is to survive. Memes wasn't a thing a 1000 years ago.
Potato Why is there anus jokes around my anus
Monster12255 if it was to survive then there would be no room on the planet
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Over long periods of over-eating, you can create new fat cells, and after long periods of time at a lower body weight, you can lose a small percentage of your fat cells.
The skinny on fat calls:- You can deplete them, but you cant delete them.
Liposuction is the only way to delete them.
@@Kaiesis Your body restores them though
Thank you for making this video and i learned something interesting because of your efforts, i really appreciate the time you took too produce this video.
But do they increase in number when you gain weight?
yes
Yes. If your current fat cells get full but you continue to take on excess fat, your body produces more fat cells to store it in. That is part of why it is very hard to keep weight off after you lose a lot: The fat cells are still there, and they are very good at their job of taking in fat to store.
In your subcutaneous fat deposits, yes. In your visceral fat deposit, only if your visceral fat cells are large enough.
Fat cells don't multiply in numbers, they just grow in size. Basically the cells just swell when you gain weight. Hope that helps!
Kim S That's not how it works. The subcutaneous fat deposit expands via hyperplasia(making more cells), not hypertrophy(making the cells larger).
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so can you gain new fat cells? or does everyone have a certain amount that just grow and shrink???
Maybe as you grow up or they may be like your heart cells where you have a limited amount of cells
Yes. The ones you have will always remain but shrink or grow in size. New ones can also be made but that usually comes after the first step and as you gain more fat.
You can if you go absolutely crazy and binge eat.
The fat just walks away…
You either get that reference or you don't. 😂
Thank you for sharing such an important piece of knowledge 👍
So... liposuction?
I can't believe that these fat cells can expand that much, whenever I look at some people of my neighbourhood...
They left out that fat cells can also increase in number once they're filled to capacity (capacity is pretty high though). That's part of why people who lose a lot of weight often gain it back. Once the number increases, the person then has more fat cells sending signals saying that they're too empty if the person loses significant weight.
Stephen Niewiarowski
I guessed that much. I meant it more as a meme. Thanks for confirming my theory.
Speaking of diet: I've heard that you can eat in 15min as many calories as you would burn by running 24h straight. Which is a pretty depressing thought. On the other hand, your muscles burn energy, no matter if you need their full potential or not. (I guess the latter is oversimplified). Thus building up muscles allows losing weight faster than doing cardio all the time (which would reduce muscle mass over time).
BTW: there are apparently various types of fat cells too. Some seem adapted at keeping us/animals warm in cold climates and others are more for energy storage as needed for hunter-gatherers.
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Ah. Makes sense :)
I think that being able to eat enough in 15 minutes to outweigh 24 hours of running is incorrect, but I could be mistaken. The body typically can absorb only so many calories at a time, and running for that long can burn a huge amount of calories. It might be possible though, especially if those 15 minutes are spread out over a longer time period haha
You're right about muscle being very important to weight loss, but the part on cardio might be a bit off. I think you have it right in your head, but it's hard for me to tell for sure from the comment. Cardio is much more effective/quick for losing weight (and builds muscles too), but weightlifting-type exercise often helps more for keeping fat off once it's lost. Like you said, aside from the energy required to repair muscle after a workout and to build new muscle, the body constantly uses a good amount of energy to maintain muscle mass. This adds to resting metabolism which can be extremely important for preventing additional fat gain and for keeping fat off once lost. I personally have had much more weight loss success with building muscle than I did with dieting, but both done well are very useful, and there may be a genetic component that makes either more useful for different people. Unfortunately, it can be hard to convince people to lose weight through exercising (especially weightlifting) since the weight of the additional muscle sometimes prevents the number on the scale from changing much.
The fat that helps generate heat is called brown fat. Its color is different because it has more mitochondria than other fat does. While mitochondria are normally rather efficient, the mitochondria in brown fat purposefully operate inefficiently so that more energy is converted to heat instead of things like movement.
Thanks for your comment. I enjoyed going into more detail.
Stephen Niewiarowski
If I'm not mistaken, a pound of butter contains more energy, than a pound of TNT. However, butter can only burn slowly, unless you boil it and dump a glass of water in it (in that case the explosion is strong enough to severely damage a small house, but still nowhere near a pound of TNT).
So I guess eating butter or ice might do the trick. Eating the same amount of sugar will probably kill you.
BTW: Humans seem to have evolved to run or wander huge distances to gather food (unlike the beasts that could outrun us with ease and have thus more calories to burn). There was really a guy recorded running 24h straight, but that's something most of us couch-potatoes and pc-heros can only dream about (in our nightmares).
@@nerowski Jogging can lower testoterone if done long enough, and often enough.
so, the body does keep making new fat cells right?
Like, if I get lyposuction that doesn't prevent me from gaining the weight back ... right?
Nerobyrne right
So is liposuction a dangerous procedure?
Yes.
Jake Lakinger not necessarily. You would still have fat cells remaining in your body. Liposuction only removes the ones in the target area. In the event that a person who gets liposuction ends up in a situation where they are clinically starving, they may regret the removal of their fat cells.
Regina Drake-Parguey Well, I had an injury that destroyed a good portion of fat cells, and now I'm prone to pressure wounds, so it can be dangerous in other ways as well.
necrogenesis1981 I would wonder if it would be different with controlled suctioning though. Because in the case of liposuction, a doctor is performing the procedure and following protocols to keep you safe. In the case of an injury, you're losing whatever tissue gets damaged.
Regina Drake-Parguey Maybe, but I don't think so because the doctor is still removing the cells, so there's no tissue to grow as far as I'm aware.
Hey Sci-Show, there is this new procedure called "Coolsculpting" that freezes and destroys fat cells. I'd love to see a video addressing the procedure. It is apparently approved by the FDA but still seems sketchy.
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James Duan Yep
why are there fat cells around my anus
Dammit...
You have a fat ass.
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That's just cushion for the pushin'.
***** you can do that?
Hey scishow, I've got a question, why are we cold when we step out of the water?
That's quite easy. When you're in water, you don't lose heat that quickly. But when you step out, you've got lots of little drops of water on your body which evaporate quickly and take heat away from your body rapidly. Hence you feel cold.
So, shrunk fat cells are just lurking waiting for you to screw up and eat that cookie.
As someone who is very skinny and close to being _under_weight, would eating a lot create new fat cells? Because, even when I did start to eat more, I never noticed any real change in size.
angeldude101 yeah. find a calorie counter and find out how many calories you need to eat daily to maintain your weight, then eat around 200-250 calories more than that until you hit a desired weight/look. eat more to gain faster.
when you hit that weight find your new maintainence and eat that. weight loss works the same way.
the catch is you have to count absolutely everything you eat and drink in a certain time period (Cal's/day maybe)
Can you do one on cerebral aneurysms? I had one rupture at 19 and would love to learn more!
I started yesterday to burn some belly fat, this video happens at the right time!
SO you are quitting it? Because they are going to stay there whatsoever.
I'm not quitting, even though my abs are sore, I'm gonna go on doing it.
Ab workouts are great and everything but make sure to mix it with high intensity cardio to burn calories, otherwise you're just going to end up with stronger abs under the same layer of belly fat.
@Mark Nutt Thanks for the tip
finally, scishow is trending
Nerd moment.
"like any other cell in your body, your fat cells have a nucleus"
The most common cell in your body, the erythrocyte (Red blood cell) has no nucleus.
I noticed the same thing! XD
i can definitly use that information for my exam next week :D
Good summary of what took me college courses in biochemistry and anatomy/physiology to learn!
Huh. Do you have an extensive knowledge of biochemistry?
Feynstein 100 nope
Grace Gemar Too bad. We could've been friends.
So why are people who do drugs usually very thin?
when gaining weight, is there a point where your body makes more of these cells? so is there a reasonable maximum size for these cells?
what if we could break those bonds at will in any given time? we could go super saiyan lol
Dunno about that. We could go super skinny tho. Just saiyan. :D
I hope you guy have a nice day!
Great Video!
I seem to recall fat cells do have a lifespan (about 7 years?). I don't know to what extent new ones are produced under what level of stimuli, but I think it's quite possible that you can effectively grow or shrink the number of actual fat cells over time through long-term diet.
I don't know if, in a low-fat circumstance, fat cells might be re-metabolized - it might be possible, given that cells with no utility are just a net drain on the system so recycling might be beneficial.
Of course, you could always take various measures to actually physically destroy the cells (surgeries and so forth) if all else fails...
Unused but never forgotten.
bonds don't contain chemical energy, they contain potential energy.
i literally still dont understand so can they die and if yes HOW??
What about alternatives to remove the triglycerides like Zerona 635nM laser , activating the photon receptor on the fat cell , getting it to release the same way the adrenaline does?
how can you remove strechmarks
as a follow up, does that hold true even when cells die? we're constantly begin "renovated" so does the body replace fat cells that are not being used?
I'mma make mostly everything that tastes good. Bad for their health.
And I'mma make most things that are good for them. Taste bad.
That makes sense. The humans will like that.
I'll make one of the easiest things in the world gaining weight. Even though it's terrible.
And I'll make one of the hardest things in the world losing weight. even though most people want/need that.
That also makes sense. I'm amazing. Creating AND helping humans. Theyre gonna like me so much.
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MJD7 Gaming evolution and adaptation says we like "bad" things because in nature there isnt much, and food is an uncertainty, so if its there you need to get it
Mr. Bulbasaur's Channel ya. theres an 'okay to be smart' video on sugar, thats an example of it.
Early humans needed lots of energy to hunt down animals which they eat afterwards. Thus early humans needed high fat and energy foods, thus early humans developed taste receptors to like high fat food. Today people consume high fat food but don't do enough exercise to balance the energy outcome out not like what early humans did.
However, humans soon will develop a taste for nutritional food like salads etc. in future. Why? because evolution
Lol it would be fun seeing a future kid asks his parents for brocolli and refusing to eat chocolate.
MJD7 Gaming not exactly. Never in the history of human evolution have we ever had such processed foods to choose from. Processed foods are designed to keep you wanting more, buying more, and be kind of an explosion on taste. You brain gets more pleasure from overly salty/sugary/fatty foods because they're not as prevalent in such high concentrations in nature and they are very important for your body's health in the right amounts. Fruit has natural sugars that can be used for instant energy. Fats, like those in nuts, seeds, and animal products are denser in calories and harder to access, but would keep you satisfied for longer and it was easier to over eat them and store fat, for a time of famine, so your body could tap into those fat stores for energy and not die. As for sodium, it is present amongst other crucial minerals for health in natural foods like leafy greens and sodium is important for electrolyte regulation. The good news is your body is very adapogenic, it gets used to the norm. So once you change your lifestyle and stop eating processed junk food or out at restaurants and start eating good quality whole, plant based, foods you taste buds change and start to prefer the healthier foods. Also, it will change your gut bacteria because plant foods are rich in prebiotics. Which the good bacteria feed off of and multiply, changing your microbiome, which in turn changes your cravings. Then, before you know it you'll be craving broccoli!
Sophia Reinheimer HOPE In never crave that broccoli, but ya I guess you're right.
can you make a video on how lipoproteins transport fat and how fat is metabolized differently from glucose?
How do you get rid of the cells so you don't have to worry about them filling up?
Would that mean that somebody who has gone through a fat suction, and then even managed to become skinny would become hungry (or at least be in need of eating) more frequently since they would lack these seemingly finite energy storing cells? or would the cells regenerate in a way that all lost cells would be replaced? And if that is the case, how does the body know when it has enough fat cells?
his jacket strings were both ering me the entire episode.
Then maybe don't look at them?
Its hard, im picky about thoes type of things lol
j Livermore Heh. Try not to be then? Idk
Try to stop your heart, didn't work? Same thing
j Livermore I would if I wanted to. :P
You have to ask goku that question
indeed mate, he eats more than his actual body weight and still has great body.
Damn SON
I've been eating a ton of food this year but still getting leaner! I might plateau until spring (September) if I don't reach my goal before march. Then the quest for 7% body fat will begin once again!
Brayden Haines why 7? do you compete?
How is this weight loss happening for you Brayden?
here i eat 5+ times a day up to $500 a month of food and i still cant gain weight or enough required to build muscle mass then i run out of money and cant afford it, how do you guys do it? it's ridiculous
do you use after and pre-workout supplements? your body actually creates chemicals that break down muscle after you work out, those supplements stop them.
atm im not lifting anymore due to moved house and no job cause cant afford it. i used to use preworked like jack3d before it got banned, but post workout is optimum nutrition 100% whey and a 2/3 serve of weight gainer then eat 1-2 hours after it
Stoogie
any of those have anti-catabolics? if they do it's pretty crazy you took all that stuff but couldn't gain weight :P
well training a lot adds metabolism speed, being 80kg 10% bodyfat having more muscle mass raises basal metabolic rate, also eating every 2.5-3 hours increases speed of metabolism because your body is constantly working to break down food with no rest gaps.
edit: also body type affects metabolism by 30% ecto - meso - endo, im ectomorph. cafeine can help temporarily for around 15% metabolism rate
Have you actually counted how many calories you eat a day? Metabolism, or how many calories you burn in a day, really only varies by a few hundred calories. All that -morph stuff is bunk.
so that would mean lipo suction cuts out your own cells. Like a sponge that shrinks when water leaves it, I bet your body shape is weird after losing weight and lipo.
What happens with the "coolsculpting" procedure where they claim to destroy fat cells by freezing them?
Andrea de Leon That's one way to destroy fat cells
That procedure generally can destroy potentially up to 40% if fat cells in a targeted region. But, it does come with risks as with any procedure
Why does the exposure levels on most of your videos keep fluctuating? It's been like that for years. Pretty sure it's not on my end, since it's like that for an device I view it in. Also, I've only ever encountered it on SciShow vids. Great content though,
I'd like to know why and how fats and oils go rancid, and why it is that the fatty acids in the adipocytes don't. Is it just that fats and oils in foods are just being broken down by microbes, or is there something else going on (maybe a process like how corn changes its sugars to starch when the cob gets plucked from the plant)?
Michael is my fav ♡
Just be mindful that there's more to weight loss than just doing cardio. I'm training for an Ironman later this year and as my workouts get longer, my belly gets fatter. My weight gain isn't just trading fat for muscle, I'm definitely packing on belly fat despite doing 3 or 4 or 5 hours of exercise a day. I didn't gain weight for the first few months of my training, but then training sessions were typically only 1 to 2 hours. It's only after I moved up to these much longer sessions that the weight gain kicked in. Obviously yes, I eat an awful lot now to recover from so many hours of exercise, but there's also the matter of elevated cortisol levels that can really pack on pounds quickly. I'm sure there are plenty of other factors involved.
So unless you have a specific goal, like an Ironman, don't just assume more exercise is always better. There is a point of not just diminishing returns, but of actual reversal leading back to weight gain. Some exercise is great, too much is not...
if you get liposuction, that removes cells, right? does that mean if you gain the weight back, your fat cells regenerate, or do they each grow larger than ever? does the number go up as you gain weight in general?
I'm watching this while eating Oreos :x
What is Norepinephrine's role in fat loss? or does it aid in losing fat at all?
Richard trujillo
The fight or flight reaction basically helps you loose weight because of the physical tension it puts on your body. It diverts more blood to the muscles instead of the intestines which increases energy consumption while reducing energy absorption and storage.
Question: why do candles smoke only *after* they're blown out?
This raises a lot of questions when it comes to liposuction. If lipo sucks out the cells directly, does that mean that someone who has had it done has permanently lost the ability to store fat on that portion of their body, or will the body regenerate the lost fat cells?
Ofc it sucks in the fat cells. What else?
He's had the same hairstyle for 10 years
Higgs Bason and Higgs field. How they "give" particle their mass? Can you please make a video on this?
THANK YOU SCISHOW!!! I THINK I CAN PASS MY WEED DRUG TEST NOW!!!!!!!!!!
I don't know how to ask my question, I feel stuck being 150lbs at 30 years old because it's been just about half my life if not more that I've been this size. If I eat enough to gain weight I feel sick. I wonder if it's just my body can't break down enough energy to gain the needed fat cells? I know everyone is different but sometimes skinny is a curse.
at last, he blinks! 2:10
I think that this is a very good educational video that has something everyone can take something from. I don't think that people realize that it doesn't matter how much you work out, you will still have some fat cells and that is a good thing. I do not think that people know that they do protect their body and keep it warm, we wouldn't be able to function well without fat cells. With this new workout craze people are trying to get rid of all of their fat but in reality some fat it healthy.
Can you do a video on the science behind coolsculpting? Because You said adipocytes never really go away or die but supposedly with coolsculpt because it uses a freezing method the adipocytes go into apoptosis, which "eliminates" the adipocytes for good. I was just wondering if this was true?
Interesting, never heard of coolsculpting 🤔
Can you do an episode on deoxycholic acid injections? Those are supposed to be the new alternative to liposuction that chemically dissolve fat cells.
When you're starving, I think the fat cells are eaten first before tissues. But don't starve yourself too much
cool but would be nice if you explained how your metabolism effects the burning and storing of fat
0:10 those are literally clones
I stopped eating a lot and lost weight considerably also replaced soft drink with water always.
Then do we gain fat cells or does it just shrink/grow
Tyr Myrmidon That would have been the better question
Mr Aranda thanks for your video but I do not think you answered the questions I was hoping that you would answer. The following questions are seriously extremely difficult questions to find answers for on youtube & could you or anyone please help me answer them: Do fat cells completely die on their own, as we are constantly aging, or do they only die if surgery such as liposuction, or mesotherapy caused them to completely die? Also, are fat cells a fixed number from birth or does the human body have the ability to make new fat cells to replace the ones that died?
"I'm not fat I just have big bon.. fat cells!"
why do I feel like doing something that is see infront of me? i.e. i see someone eating then I'll feel like eating or see someone scratching their heads will make me scratch my head.
Also, who wouldn't get Hungary when seeing someone else eat?
How does this work with liposuction? I'd assume that, because it removes the cells altogether, it would affect how difficult it is too gain and lose weight. Because there are fewer cells available do they grow faster to compensate for the excess of nutrients moving around the body that the other fat cells are no longer taking up, or do your kidneys filter it out of your system before the fat cells you have left can take it up? Anyone know?
Actually I think it's Hormone Sensitive Lipase that mobilizes fats from adipose tissue for metabolism.
is that true
Watch at ~53~ seconds. Lighting gets all messed up.
Brady Schwabach i notice it time to time in every video
I have so many question though ._.
I thought fat is a molecule, so it's a cell?
I thought cells grows by multiplying, not increasing in size. And let's say an obese person works out and gets back in shape, what happens to the fat cells?
Why do people who want/ in a weight loss diet are suggested to eat low calorie food? I thought calorie is a form of energy, not fat.
If anyone happens to know the answer of these questions I would like to know :)
there are fat cells, adipocytes, which store fat
They're not FAT! They're curvy cells.
Rad Bromance I love curves too dude. A woman with no curves is as a pizza without crust.
Alright SciShow, what’s the deal with essential oils? My mother keeps telling me they’ll cure my headaches, regulate my menstrual cycle, and cure other ailments. I’m highly skeptical.
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So wait a second, if fat cells are good insulators, is this why fat people can usually tolerate colder temperatures?
I'm quite skinny, and I find myself preferring much higher ambient temperatures than most people. (24-25 C).
UnknownXV Keeps the body insulted but Its all about if the person prefers cold temps.
UnknownXV also having a higher muscle mass will help keep you warm. more muscle means more energy is needed to fuel them so it generates more heat.
also also also, larger body weight regardless of composition retains heat more due to the square-cube law.
ummm yes, thats exactly why fat people tolerate cold much better. it can't be the first you're hearing this....you can't possibly be serious. its like whale blubber......for humans.
I can tolerate the cold a bit and I'm slightly overweight but the thing is, I wear a sweater much longer than anyone else does
My siblings and others around me: it's so hot today, how can you (me) stay comfortable in that sweater?!?!
Me: I'm good as long as I don't think about the heat
What about a ketogenic diet? Do your same rules apply?
Can I be really slim having high fat cell count? I lost 34kg (~75lbs), being at 72kg (~160lbs) but still have like ... loose skin(?) on the belly, its not that its a thin loose skin, its like I can pinch it and its like a semi-thick raw bacon :(
it’s a yes or no question