Obesity can actually be caused by not eating enough
No really, your body thinks you’re in a time of famine and holds onto EVERYTHING it can… You also get more stressed which causes your body to store your adrealine as extra fat.
The trigger for that is epigenetic, that is, it’s caused by genes but they aren’t always active. There’s a “blocker” molecule on the DNA that prevents those sections from being used for making proteins. When certain things change in the environment, you can gain or lose those blocker molecules.
One of them controls fat storage, and activates during starvation to encourage your body to hold onto any nutrients it can get. Because it is genetic though, it’s inheritable. So if any of your parents or grandparents went through a famine or a time of starvation, the epigenetic marker could have been removed and you inherit that missing marker, causing your body to store fat more than other people who have the marker still.
this is unbelievable, my great great grandparents immigrated to america during the great famine of mount lebanon, this could be why my body stores so much. thank you for the reply
THAT explains why I got fat. I was a middle weight wrestler and cut weight when I was an adolescent. According to this, starving myself in my teens must have flipped a genetic switch from which I’m suffering 50 years later.
Obesity can actually be caused by not eating enough
No really, your body thinks you’re in a time of famine and holds onto EVERYTHING it can… You also get more stressed which causes your body to store your adrealine as extra fat.
i think my body is broken because it has always held on to everything it can :/
The trigger for that is epigenetic, that is, it’s caused by genes but they aren’t always active. There’s a “blocker” molecule on the DNA that prevents those sections from being used for making proteins. When certain things change in the environment, you can gain or lose those blocker molecules.
One of them controls fat storage, and activates during starvation to encourage your body to hold onto any nutrients it can get. Because it is genetic though, it’s inheritable. So if any of your parents or grandparents went through a famine or a time of starvation, the epigenetic marker could have been removed and you inherit that missing marker, causing your body to store fat more than other people who have the marker still.
this is unbelievable, my great great grandparents immigrated to america during the great famine of mount lebanon, this could be why my body stores so much. thank you for the reply
THAT explains why I got fat. I was a middle weight wrestler and cut weight when I was an adolescent. According to this, starving myself in my teens must have flipped a genetic switch from which I’m suffering 50 years later.