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This is such good information...some people do this yearly to reset their immune systems...the replies are always interesting to read...Dr. Makis has been such a champion for truth...I truly appreciate his calling...
A fat person has more cells than a skinny one. Cutting weight cuts the number of cells. Otherwise a fat person would have gargantuan fat cells if cell count never changed.
Absolutely evolutionarly evolved to dispise hunger. A compound called Grelin is what is responsible I think. The fasting body puts alot of its resources on keeping your brain at full power, otherwise finding food might be impossible. But the body obviously doesnt want you to be HAPPY that your STARVING.
Actually, losing bodyfat reduces what is inside those fat cells (fat, glycerol, and water), but does not get rid of the fat cells themselves. Doesn't really matter, because you will still get lean. But that is how it works.
Ghrelin is a hormone that kicks in when your body thinks it is TIME to eat, not that you SHOULD eat. If you are used to eating multiple times throughout the day, ghrelin will kick in around those times, and you will feel hungry. But that hunger will pass in an hour or so. After several days of fasting, you don't get hungry anymore. Obiously, it cannot be purely a hunger signal if it goes away completely.
Probably true, generally, but a fat bastard DOES need to "starve" for a period of time, to correct the overindulgence they have been abusing their body with for years and years to get into that situation in the first place.
The longest fast on record was something like 382 days. He was Scotsman in the 1970's/1980's, and he started fasting at 426 pounds. He kept going for more than a year, and ended his fast at around 180 pounds.
He had no health complications whatsoever, and kept the fat off for the rest of his life.
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However, the number of fat cells stays constant in adulthood in lean and obese individuals, even after marked weight loss, indicating that the number of adipocytes is set during childhood and adolescence.
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature06902
The above study used a combination of two unique procedures:
The scientists were able to determine the age of fat cells in the body by measuring the incorporation of radioactivity from the atmosphere into the DNA of the fat cells.
They compared the mass of the fat cells in relation to the full amount of adipose tissue in a extremely large number of human subjects whose body weights varied widely.
The scientists found that people who have obesity produce approximately twice as many new fat cells annually as lean people. They also found that fat cell death happens at twice the rate among people who have obesity, compared to lean people. Even if the people with obesity they studied lost a significant amount of weight, their total number of fat cells in the body remained constant, but the size of individual fat cells fell substantially.
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/106343#1