There’s a big difference between normal fat & lipoedema fat. In Lipoedema the fat cells become hard and nodular.
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There is a drastic difference between normal fat and lipedema fat. Lipedema fat is created due to fluid that sits in the tissues that should not be there. Therefore, it becomes inflamed and due to the chronic inflammation it becomes fibrotic. Fibrotic means it’s full of scar tissue. So the fat cells become hard and nodular, therefore they are diseased and defective. They are not able to be metabolically burned like regular fat.
A person who has lipedema has normal fat throughout their body, but also has lipedema fat. The normal fat can be lost through diet and exercise, but the lipedema fat cannot.
Due to the hard nodular nature it causes pain when touched and it presses on blood, lymphatic vessels, as well as nerves and impairs those systems.
