{"id":143753,"date":"2025-06-01T09:10:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T09:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/discover-why-we-gain-belly-fat-with-age-its-not-what-you-think-teknomers\/"},"modified":"2025-06-01T09:10:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T09:10:12","slug":"discover-why-we-gain-belly-fat-with-age-its-not-what-you-think-teknomers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/discover-why-we-gain-belly-fat-with-age-its-not-what-you-think-teknomers\/","title":{"rendered":"Discover why we gain belly fat with age\u2014it&#8217;s not what you think! Teknomers."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"saooti-player\" src=\"https:\/\/playerbeta.octopus.saooti.com\/miniplayer\/11\/1484096?distributorId=6cc88bd2-a01b-4bf0-9bc4-949dec682133&amp;color=30a1ef&amp;theme=ffffff&amp;wave=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"90px\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"ac-article-date\">\n        Par<br \/>\n        <strong><br \/>\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/actu.fr\/auteur\/redaction-actu\" title=\"Consulter tous les articles de R\u00e9daction Actu\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">R\u00e9daction Actu<\/a><br \/>\n        <\/strong><br \/>\n        <span><br \/>\n        Publi\u00e9 le<br \/>\n        <time datetime=\"2025-06-01T06:30:01+02:00\"><br \/>\n            1 juin 2025 \u00e0 6h30<br \/>\n        <\/time><br \/>\n        <\/span>\n    <\/div>\n<p>Are we destined to gain \u00a0belly fat\u00a0 as we age? A recent study published in the journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.adj0430\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Science<\/em><\/a> suggests so, revealing an unexpected culprit: the emergence of a new type of \u00a0adult stem cell\u00a0 that significantly promotes the production of fat cells (\u00a0adipocytes\u00a0), particularly around the abdomen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wall-content\">&#8220;It is common for individuals to lose muscle and gain fat mass as they age, even while maintaining a consistent weight,&#8221; states Dr. Qiong Wang from the City of Hope National Medical Center in California, who co-authored the study.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wall-content\"><strong>Mice and Men&#8230;<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p class=\"wall-content\">For their research, scientists first transplanted stem cells known as &#8220;adipocyte progenitor cells&#8221; from \u00a0young\u00a0 mice and \u00a0aged\u00a0 mice into a group of young mice. Adipocytes are the cells responsible for fat storage in the body.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wall-content\">The results were surprising: cells harvested from _____ aged animals rapidly produced a \u00a0massive quantity\u00a0 of fat cells, regardless of the host&#8217;s age. However, when the team transplanted fat stem cells from young mice into older mice, the stem cells did not produce many new fat cells at all.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"dailymotion-embed-x7dyep\" class=\"ac-embed ac-embed--dailymotion ac-embed--inread3\" data-provider=\"dailymotion\"><figcaption>Videos: currently trending on Actu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wall-content\">The researchers discovered that aging transforms these stem cells into a new type known as \u00a0CP-A\u00a0 (for &#8220;committed preadipocytes, age-specific&#8221;). These CP-A cells, which emerge at midlife, actively produce new fat cells, explaining why older mice tend to gain more weight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wall-content\">&#8220;While the growth capacity of most \u00a0adult stem cells\u00a0 diminishes with age, the opposite occurs for adipocyte progenitor cells: aging unleashes their capacity for evolution and multiplication,&#8221; the authors continue.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wall-content\"><strong>Human Findings Confirmed<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p class=\"wall-content\">The team subsequently examined tissue samples from humans of various ages. They identified CP-A cells with a greater abundance in the tissues of middle-aged individuals. This finding indicates that these cells also have a substantial capacity to create new fat cells in humans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wall-content\">&#8220;Understanding the role of CP-A in metabolic disorders and how these cells arise with aging could pave the way for new medical solutions to reduce \u00a0abdominal fat\u00a0 and enhance \u00a0health\u00a0 and \u00a0longevity\u00a0,&#8221; the researchers conclude.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wall-content\"><strong>With Destination Sant\u00e9<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wall-content\"><i>Stay updated on news from your favorite cities and media by signing up for <a href=\"https:\/\/moncompte.actu.fr\" title=\"Discover Mon Actu\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mon Actu<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/category\/general\/\" rel=\"dofollow\">General News &#8211; 2<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Par R\u00e9daction Actu Publi\u00e9 le 1 juin 2025 \u00e0 6h30 Are we destined to gain \u00a0belly fat\u00a0 as we age? A recent study published in the journal Science suggests so, revealing an unexpected culprit: the emergence of a new type of \u00a0adult stem cell\u00a0 that significantly promotes the production of fat cells (\u00a0adipocytes\u00a0), particularly around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":143754,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36400],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}