Of course, fat can make us lose weight! For example, if it is eaten while abstaining from ingesting carbohydrates. The indigenous people of the Arctic have been eating seal and whale blubber for thousands of years. Much like our ancestors, who ingested large amounts of mammoth fat in the Paleolithic Age. Fat does not make you “fat”, it is sugar and starch that are truly responsible for gaining weight.
But today, I would like to tell you of a recent achievement by Graz University of Technology, which has genetically changed the polarity of fat cells, so that they burn fat instead of storing it. The trick here is that the usual “white” fat cells are converted to so-called “brown” fat cells using RNA sections (a kind of code that is used to produce regulatory proteins of the cell). Brown fat cells are, however, quite rare in our bodies and have far more mitochondria, which are tiny cellular “powerplants” that burn energy.
If these RNA sections can be used to “switch on” the mitochondria in the white fat cells, they start to produce energy instead of storing it, similar to the mitochondria in the brown fat cells. The only thing missing now is a means of transportation that can be used to bring the RNA fragments into the cells. Nanoparticles are currently being considered for this purpose. This approach is reminiscent of the movie Transcendence, in which Johnny Depp, as the hyper consciousness of a dead scientist that has been projected into a computer, floods the world with nanomachines that are supposed to “repair” everything that isn’t perfect.
Researchers, in any case, hope to achieve a breakthrough with treating diabetes and obesity. Many patents have already been filed as well.
Is it not remarkable, what will be set in motion just because people simply eat too much starch and sugar? Surely there are many people who suffer from hormonal imbalances and therefore constantly gain weight. It is purposeful in this regard, to rectify these imbalances first using bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT) so that these people can start to lose weight.
It would very easy for the majority of people to maintain their ideal weight and never suffer from diabetes – all they would have to do, is radically restrict their sugar and starch intake by, for example, limiting themselves to eating the Sunday “Gugelhupf” that was once customary in Austria.
DDr. Heinrich, MD