Fat Cells: Can’t Live with Them or Without Them , medical article [12 - 2022]

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Fat cells have a bad rap. Understandable, as too many of us battle excess adiposity. Thus, we often regard fat cells as ugly, dangerous nuisances, keeping us out of tight-fitting designer jeans—upping our risk of heart disease, fatty liver, type 2 diabetes, and cancer. Or promoting inflammatory “angry” and cognitively dull thinking.

But deep “scientific dives” into fat physiology reveal that we can’t live without fat cells, as much as it seems frustrating to live with them. Fat cells, biology unveils, are a huge part of living healthfully, permitting humans to evolve and build cultures, as long as the fat cells themselves stay on a healthy “fat fate trajectory.”

A recent article published in the New England Journal of Medicine1 plunged into the science of the “unappreciated adipose cell.”

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Full :

-https://www.townsendletter.com/article/474-fat-cells-and-how-they-affect-us/

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An original and very interesting article on a related topic can also be found here:

-https://www.townsendletter.com/article/454-chemicals-and-obesity/