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#33 - Rudy Leibel, M.D.: Finding the obesity gene and discovering leptin

The Peter Attia Drive

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Glucos Homeostasis in the Atopos Tissue

The doomsday scenario would be your muscles become resistant to the signalling of insolin, and they don't put these glut transporters up there. Why that happens actually? In other words, what is it about becoming obese that is actually doing something to skeletal muscle? What if it's the reverse? Well, it may be. I mean, again, this is an area of, you know, somewhat hot debate. But one possibility, i guess, is that there's something that happens to atopos tissue when you store whatever,. for that individual, is an excess amount of lipid.

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