The Different Mechanisms of Fat Growth

Fat is an organ. It forms very early in life and just like every other organ in your body for fat to remain vital and functional, it needs a blood supply. When you have too much fat excessive fat becomes harmful because what happens is that as that fat mass grows bigger and it starts to below. The center of the fat or the center of the tumor starts to die. We call it hypoxia, not enough oxygen. And this excess billowing of fat is where fat and cancers and tumors actually become very similar,. Because tumors also start as small cells, just like a normal fat cell, but as it gets bigger and bigger and bigger, it needs to outstrips its blood

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