# If you lipo out fat cells from your belly & rear it will be stored in your knees! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 11, 2009, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-lipo-out-fat-cells-from-your-belly-rear-it-will-be-stored-in-your-knees/485344 "2009-02-11T07:52:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-lipo-out-fat-cells-from-your-belly-rear-it-will-be-stored-in-your-knees/485344/1 "2009-02-11T07:52:19Z")
[Interesting article.](http://www.naturalnews.com/006981.html)I had no idea this is what would happen if your liposuctioned out all your belly and rear end hip fat, makes sense though as the fat has to go someplace. Kind of a horrific mental picture re "pot bellied knees’. > [@](#): > > Thirdly, your body stores fat wherever you have fat cells. This may sound obvious, but it’s actually interesting when you realize that people who undergo liposuction to remove fat cells from their body end up causing a redistribution of fat to other locations that might be less desirable. > > For example, if a person follows an unhealthy lifestyle that results in the accumulation of excessive body fat, then they undergo liposuction to remove that body fat from their abdomen, but they continue to pursue the same overconsumption lifestyle that creates more body fat, then the body has to store that fat somewhere and since the fat cells have been removed from the abdomen, it’s going to put that fat somewhere else like the knees, or under the chin, or under the arms and so on. Your body has to work with the fat cells that exist, and if you start removing certain fat cells, you end up with fat being stored in places you might not have expected. > > (This is one of the most common pitfalls of liposuction, by the way. It all sounds great until you look in the mirror one day and find that you have twenty pounds of body fat sagging off your knees…) ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-lipo-out-fat-cells-from-your-belly-rear-it-will-be-stored-in-your-knees/485344/2 "2009-02-11T11:15:37Z")
I can’t see somebody actually gaining 20 pounds of fat on each knee. Obviously you regain fat if you continue to over eat. Only a small percentage of people are so simple as to not understand they will get fat again. A small percentage of the population can still be a million people though.🙂 ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-lipo-out-fat-cells-from-your-belly-rear-it-will-be-stored-in-your-knees/485344/3 "2009-02-11T11:25:15Z")
> [@Harmonious\_Discord](#): > > I can’t see somebody actually gaining 20 pounds of fat on each knee. Obviously you regain fat if you continue to over eat. Only a small percentage of people are so simple as to not understand they will get fat again. A small percentage of the population can still be a million people though.🙂 That explains [Torgo.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/dc/Torgo_knees.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![stargazer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@stargazer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stargazer)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-lipo-out-fat-cells-from-your-belly-rear-it-will-be-stored-in-your-knees/485344/4 "2009-02-11T15:40:40Z")
Really? :dubious: Your body doesn’t just create new fat cells? ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-lipo-out-fat-cells-from-your-belly-rear-it-will-be-stored-in-your-knees/485344/5 "2009-02-11T15:43:11Z")
Dammit, they told me it’d [wind up in the boobs!](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15841629?dopt=AbstractPlus):mad: ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-lipo-out-fat-cells-from-your-belly-rear-it-will-be-stored-in-your-knees/485344/6 "2009-02-11T16:08:39Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > That explains [Torgo.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/dc/Torgo_knees.jpg) That’s not 20 pounds of fat per knee. ---
**Author:** ![dactylic\_hexameter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d26b3c/32.png) [@dactylic\_hexameter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dactylic_hexameter)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-lipo-out-fat-cells-from-your-belly-rear-it-will-be-stored-in-your-knees/485344/7 "2009-02-11T17:45:12Z")
> [@stargazer](#): > > Really? :dubious: Your body doesn’t just create new fat cells? My lab studies adipocytes. It’s much easier for your body to store lipids in pre-existing fat cells then it is to promote adipogenesis. Generally, new fat cells are recruited as everything else starts fill up. So, yes, you will eventually regain weight around the surgery site, but you will also turn all those nice small fat cells in other places into gigundo-fatty-fat-cells.