Your Fat Might Save Your Life

[Lynyrd Skynyrd]

A new technique involves removing a patient's regular fat cells, and gene editing them to create a type of fat cell that uses body nutrients to generate heat. When the edited fat cells are injected near a cancerous tumor, they absorb so many nutrients that the cancer cells are left to starve to death.

https://twitter.com/DeItaone/status/1887...4tkQQ&s=19

[Maxmars]

A new technique involves removing a patient's regular fat cells, and gene editing them to create a type of fat cell that uses body nutrients to generate heat. When the edited fat cells are injected near a cancerous tumor, they absorb so many nutrients that the cancer cells are left to starve to death.

https://twitter.com/DeItaone/status/1887...4tkQQ&s=19

At the end of the links....

Scientists Just Found a Way to Starve Cancer Using Fat Cells

My best hopes that this is as important as it could be....

[chr0naut]

A new technique involves removing a patient's regular fat cells, and gene editing them to create a type of fat cell that uses body nutrients to generate heat. When the edited fat cells are injected near a cancerous tumor, they absorb so many nutrients that the cancer cells are left to starve to death.

https://twitter.com/DeItaone/status/1887...4tkQQ&s=19

Unless they accidentally immortalize a lipoma.

[UltraBudgie]

I've got a little theory that fat cells aren't "energy warehouses", or at least that is only one of their many functions. I think of them as "toxin buffers" -- able to store substances that the body can flush out, eventually, at a slow rate, so the metabolism is not overwhelmed by them. That includes things that aren't necessarily toxic, but vital, like trace elements that the body does need, but only in small amounts, and can be toxic if over-abundant. Why there's some healthy fat people, their lard isn't loaded with horrid modern toxins, and why superskinny people need to be very careful about consistency of diet -- one wrong meal can hit them like a sledgehammer, as they have no "padding".

Also there's a lot of woo that fat (and muscle knots) stores bad memories, feelings, unprocessed experiences, etc., and maybe there's something to that, if you include stress hormones, psychoactive toxins, etc., as things the body stashes away in the "warehouse" until the kidneys, liver, etc., can get around to safely disposing of it.