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- Unlike white fat, which stores energy, brown fat consumes calories when activated, increasing the body’s metabolism.
- According to new research, early morning cold is more effective at activating brown fat for men, though not for women.
- Experts are hoping that brown fat’s properties can be leveraged to lower the risk of type 2 diabetes and to maintain weight.
Brown fat, or brown adipose tissue, is one of the hot topics in metabolic research. Unlike white fat that people hoping to maintain a healthy weight would like to shed, brown fat increases the body’s metabolism, producing heat to burn calories and white fat.
Research has shown that short-term exposure to cold activates brown fat. New brown fat research in humans investigates the potential influence of the body’s own clock, its circadian rhythm, on the activation of the tissue.
It finds, for men at least, that exposure to cold in the morning is more effective at activating brown fat heat production, or “thermogenesis,” than any other time of day.
A similar effect was not clearly observed in women.
The research describes a random crossover trial in which 24 lean young adults — 12 men and 12 women — were exposed to cold water-filled mattresses randomly…
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