Apoptosis - Killing Fat Cells, Is It Real & How Can You Induce It?
Recently I've read a few articles and forum posts about apoptosis, the dying of cells, or specifically for my reading, the killing of fat cells. Many people trying to lose fat who were overweight as a child or teen know the discouragement of hearing that fat cells never die, they only shrink and once they shrink they constantly want to get back to their original size. When hearing that news, it feels like an already uphill battle just grew steeper into a mountain. So to hear that it may be untrue, that it may be possible to make fat cells die gives one hope.
The first question is, is it true? Can you really kill off fat cells in adulthood?
The second question is, if it is true, how do you do it? Low Carb/High Protein diet with intense cardio and strength training workouts? That's what we have to do to lose fat anyway so that would be great news if that also killed the fat cells instead of only shrinking them.
The third question, which I didn't think of until reading a thread on another forum, if you do manage to kill of some fat cells, will the body just create some new ones to replace them? (I don't mean you slack up on your diet and exercise and start gaining fat back, I mean as a biological response to the fat cells dying.)