#moonlit meme

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"I did that" stickers but it's me and it's for feedees to stick on their scales

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Typical feedist couple

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You eat so much you might register on the Waffle House Index

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I saw your post about how the human body has no failsafe against getting fatter. It was a hot post, but also not quite accurate, so I wanted to share some info just in case.

Mounting evidence suggests that, at the cellular level, insulin resistance is the body’s immediate failsafe against excess energy. This is normal, say, after a meal; when a given cell is done taking on energy, it becomes insulin resistant.

Buuut if the amount of dietary energy chronically overwhelms the energy storage capacity of a LOT of cells throughout the body—ie, if insulin resistance becomes systemic—that’s type ii diabetes.

Fortunately, if adipose tissue hyperplasia (growth of fat tissue via new cells) is sufficient, then yes, the human body gets inevitably fatter, just as you describe.

(Also, if a body can be forced to grow new fat cells—eg, by the injection of appropriate hormones—that can cure diabetes. Researchers demonstrated this in mice a few years ago.)

(The big picture is more complicated than what I’ve laid out here ofc, but this is the gist)

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We need to change the children alphabet books from "X is for Xylophone" to "X is formerly Twitter". Far more use cases.