#102 - Insulin resistance and how it affects each of us differently (Dr. Ben Bikman & Austin McGuffie)
LEVELS – A Whole New Level
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Fat Cell Number Is Not Immortal
Fat cells are long lived, though they live for about ten years. But during that kind of static phase, for every one fat cell that dies, it's simply replaced by another. Until later age, around 65 or so, it starts to come down and we aren't replacing fat cells any more. So now our fat cell number goes down. Not the tragedy though, osten in this whole paradime, which has gone longer than i had intended,. is that the fat cell, as it undergoes hypertrophy, becomes insolent resistant and pro inflammatory. Both of these are things its doing to pres its own life but the consequence is it's making the rest of the body suffer
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