CiCi’s All-You-Can-Eat-Buffet-buzzkilling researchers at Trinity College Dublin have discovered both an interesting and depressing quirk about a particular fat-fighting type of cell in the body.

Their potency to regulate obesity goes down the fatter you get.

Oh; And then it just quits.

It turns out these cells, called INKTs, help keep most people from getting obese.

But there comes a tipping-point, where they just seem to stop. It’s possible the chemical output of fat cells just becomes too great for them to manage, and their efficacy then approaches zero.

however…

Links:
• Source: TCD-INKT Cells

• via: Geekosystem