Surgical recovery does a lot of things to a person, so I'm really not sure. When I first started down this line of thinking I looked at the BMR of kidney's per kg and I wondered if kidney donation had a big effect on metabolic adaptation. Then I double checked and saw how small Kidneys were and dropped the line of thought.
If this is true, should it imply that people who donate part of their liver will gain weight post-op? Has anyone checked if we see that happening?
Surgical recovery does a lot of things to a person, so I'm really not sure. When I first started down this line of thinking I looked at the BMR of kidney's per kg and I wondered if kidney donation had a big effect on metabolic adaptation. Then I double checked and saw how small Kidneys were and dropped the line of thought.