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Originally Posted by Esenin
Hmm. I'm under the impression that when, as adults, humans gain weight, the amount of cells doesn't increase, but their size.
This pill is a bit like liposuction then, it merely removes cells rather than makes them smaller.
One major component of liposuction is that sometimes, the cells grow back.
As a scientist-type person, I'm interested.
As someone who believes that "you don't get what you don't give", this sounds lazy, and potentially very dangerous.
http://researchmagazine.uga.edu/96ws/fundemen.html
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For example, she and her graduate students have shown that fat-cell extracts either from genetically obese rats or from overfed rats caused prolific growth of the cultured fat cells. "We think when fat cells get to a point where they can't hold any more lipid, they secrete something to trigger more fat-cell development," she said.
Also...
http://www.examiner.com/metabolic-sy...bution-found-1
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This research challenged the one published in the journal Nature (May, 2008) which proved that the number of fat cells in an adult body remains constant through adult life. In author’s proper words, “The accumulation of abdominal fat happens largely by individual cells expanding in size, while with fat gain in the femoral or lower body, it's the number of fat cells that increases. So, the cellular mechanisms are different - different mechanism, different impact."
So it depends on where the individual gains weight but it looks like when you gain in your stomach it tends to be because your fat cells increased whereas when you gain in your lower body you actually increased the total number of fat cells.