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Anonymous
>>184101
Can someone explain to me why spot reduction doesn't work?

It makes sense to me that energy would come from the closest available source, and what I gather from other sources is that getting fat doesn't increase the amount of fat cells, but the size, so I don't see how the body of water analogy works.

If anyone can explain to me in more than layman's terms why fat is burned from the whole body, and not the source of exercise primarily, I'd be quite thankful.
>> Anonymous
Fat distribution patterns are determined by genetics. I suppose evolution has come up with a good reason to make you store fat where you do.
>> Anonymous
>>184422
By the way, sorry, I know that didn't exactly answer your question, but unfortunately I don't know the exact physiology behind fat metabolism.
>> Anonymous
have you ever seen a dead man being cut open? The fat layer is everywhere on the body under the skin. Nice yellow fat, everywhere. If you get fat, you gain mass like a balloon, if you lose fat, you lose it everywhere.
>> Anonymous
>>184427
Then why doesn't all fat just sink? Fat cells grow, but the number of them stays the same.

I know spot reduction doesn't work, I want to know why.
>> Anonymous
>>184449
because God said so
>> Anonymous
>>184422
fat acts as a cushion for your vital organs.

I believe it takes portion equally from everywhere distributed throughout your body. And that's the area that has the highest concentration, the belly.
>> Anonymous
Once I started HGH therapy (doc prescribed it), the stubborn fat patches on my body disappeared.. no change in exercise, except I recovered faster and felt a bit better in general.
>> Anonymous
There aren't any blood vessels that go straight from your fat cells to your muscles. Once the fat in your cells are freed up, they have to hitch a ride from capillaries to veins, veins to the heart, then through the pulmonary artery to lungs and through the pulmonary vein back to the heart, and then through arteries and capillaries to your muscles. There would be no advantage to utilizing the fats nearest the muscles. As for the hormones that free up the fats in the first place, they are produced in the pancreas and have to travel through the bloodstream to fat deposits. Wherever you are genetically inclined to have the most receptors for this hormone, the more fat you will lose from that area.