Organisms seem to store fat fairly symmetrically, as in, even though everyone gains fat in different areas of their body, it is never stored for example in the left arm but not the right, or the right part of the belly but not the left. Is there a mechanism to regulate that any extra fat be equally distributed among both sides of the body?
In: Biology
It’s just stochastics. If the left arm has the same probability to develop fat cells as the right arm, then over many cells it will roughly develop evenly.
If I have two dice and roll them independently many times, the sum of the first die will be roughly equal to the sum of the second die – or at least the difference will be negligible compared to the sum.
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