Peter Attia· MD
the view of the role of adipose tissue was very strongly in the direction of the sort of former characterization that you made which is that it was a passive Depot for fat in the form of storing free fatty acids as triglycerides so that they were hydrophobic so that you could pack a lot of calories into an organ or into a cell without having a lot of water there so it's very efficient way of storing energy actually as you know up to probably around nine calories per gram