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#133 – Manolis Kellis: Biology of Disease

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Is Your Fat Your Best Friend?

42% of European chromosomes have a predisposition to storing fat, which was selected probably in the food scarcity periods. Fat can both store all these excess lipids that would be otherwise circulating through your body and causing damage. If you have too much energy, you can just choose to just burn some of that as heat.

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