• legion02@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Fat cells don’t go anywhere when you lose weight. They just stop holding as many lipids. And regeneration seems like it’d burn a lot of calories.

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      7 months ago

      Fat cells aren’t immortal so they die. Normal calorie ups and downs are handled by lipid increase and decrease. But going calorie negative for long enough makes the body break down muscle and fat cells. Your cells don’t just shrink- they are gone.

      However the number of fat cells you have tends to be set at adolescence so the body will remake fat cells when it has a calorie surplus.

      https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/106343#1

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        7 months ago

        Technically true but irrelevant to the point made, no? Cell count doesn’t significantly impact “fatness” so wolverine regenerating his fat cells won’t really impact his weight.