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#47 - Surprising symptoms & diseases tied to insulin resistance & metabolism (Ben Bikman & Casey Means)

LEVELS – A Whole New Level

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Hypertrophy and the Fat Cell

We're growing our fat cell number throughout infancy, childhood and pubescence. And then by the time we're wrapping up adolescence, we have flat lined or plateed. But lest that seem like a good thing, as you start to lose your fat cell number, you force a greater burden on the remaining fat cells to store the fat. So there are multiple molecules that will contribute to fat cell hypertrophy. There is also just a very strong genetic component of this. We know across ethnicites people will have certain gen expression in the genes that dictate whether they go downhyperasia or much more so than others. The best way for us to help prevent body weight gain from getting too

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