As a bit of background, I’m in my 40s and started getting Lipomas in my 20s. Apparently, it’s passed down as my Mom also has them.
Digesting as much information as I possibly can and this community has been amazing.
Curious if anyone has suffered from Lipomas themselves and if long term fasting has helped with them at all?
It’s a fairly uncommon medical disorder, so, even doctors I’ve asked about them simply say, “Not sure why they happen, but surgical removal is suggested if they bother you.”
For those that don’t know what Lipomas are, they are fat nodules that grow under your skin. Typically pain free until unless pressing on nerve endings.
Been looking for a ‘why’ as to why they occur in the 1st place for years, but, no such luck.
Hope not completely off topic for this sub, but would love any insight if anyone else has struggled with this same type of thing.
I started getting them in my teens with no family history. The typical medical response is that they are “benign” but I personally don’t believe that. They may be benign in the limited sense of “not cancerous” but they represent a dysfunction in the body; whether that dysfunction is completely harmless is doubtful.
As for what causes them my own experience is that they multiply whenever I have extended periods of intense physical activity (extended being many months). So I am partial to the theory that they represent a dysfunction in the body’s healing process, likely in the mechanisms through which creatine mediates the disposition of fatty tissue (a process known as “futile creatine cycling”). However, that is just a theory. As you point out it is an uncommon disorder, widely viewed as harmless, and so not studied.
I have not noticed fasting having any impact on their size or their prevalence. However, I have never done they kind of extended fasting the other poster has done who has observed an effect. Since I am now interested in extending my fasts I am curious so see if they have any effect on my lipomas, a possibility I had not considered before reading the OP.