I’ve seen this play out many times over the years – even post-liposuction. That’s why I always emphasise maintenance for my body contouring clients, along with building muscle and good nutrition.
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“A new study suggests the seeds of the yo-yo effect are planted when you first suffer obesity.
Researchers from ETH Zurich made this discovery when they went looking for the molecular causes of the yo-yo effect in mice.
To that end, they “analysed fat cells from overweight mice and those that had shed their excess weight through dieting”.
What they found was a little creepy: Fat cells stored ‘memories’ of obesity in their cell nucleus.
These memories remained “even after a weight-loss program, making it more likely for mice to put the weight back on”.
Translates to humans
The scientists discovered evidence that similar mechanisms are also present in humans.
Professor Ferdinand von Meyenn is head of the von Meyenn Nutrition and Metabolic Epigenetics Group and co-author of the new study.
He said: “The fat cells remember the overweight state and can return to this state more easily.”
He said the mice with these epigenetic markers regained weight more quickly when they again had access to a high-fat diet.
“That means we’ve found a molecular basis for the yo-yo effect.”
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