I just watched an episode of House and he diagnosed a girl with Cushing’s – an illness that can cause obesity.
How is that possible? I was under the impression that our bodies use energy we get from food, and if it doesn’t get the food it’ll burn fat resulting in us getting slimmer – how can a disease change that?
How does it not go against some laws of thermodynamics? Maybe I’m just being silly.
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A lot of fat is burned through our system by our blood. If a disease effects the blood movement… it can stop fat from burning.
Cushing’s is a disease that increases the amount of cortisol in your body which is a hormone that tells your body to pump more blood during stressful situations. This hormone also helps tell the body to burn food and fat reserve.
Think of it like phone lines between two offices… your brain sends hormones down a line to tell the fatty cells to release the stored fat to increase the flow of blood; if the operator is wrong when telling the person on the other end to do a different job, the whole workplace gets effected.
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