I need you to put on your ponder caps, jacking up your sense of ponderment. The term for this heightened sense of pondering is ponderiferous … or at least it is now.
You’ll need the added ponderification to get the real meat of this next amazing matter. It begins with small laboratory rodents but has the fat-future for humanity written all over it. It centers on some fat findings by researchers at UC/Berkley.
The researchers were likely in desperate need of something that had yet to be done to the countless mice kept on hand at most research…
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