repoman
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Here is a 2015 paper about it
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4517116/
Lot of stuff here in the episode about human psychology and the virus involving guilt, shame, blame and so on.
One thing is that it seems to make more fat cells that means more safety factor of having fat cells getting filled up. Nasty things happen when fat cells are filled to the brim.