Peter Attia· MD
and one of the reigning hypotheses about the sucker rat again at around the late 70s early 80s was that the fat itself was making too much of a enzyme called lipoprotein lipase and this is an enzyme which is produced by adipose tissue by adipocytes which breaks down circulating triglycerides and allows the free fatty acids that are released to be taken up by the Oedipa sites and the glycerol backbone so to speak remains in the circulation so the idea was that the sucker rat for some reason had hyperactive lipoprotein lipase and the adipose tissue was acting like a vacuum cleaner in a sense it was sucking up the circulating fat the triglyceride and storing it and that's how the animals got obese