Brown Adipose Tissue Articles

Brown Adipose Tissue Articles:

The New View on Brown Adipose Calorie-Burning

Last week the New England Journal of Medicine published three groundbreaking reports on brown adipose tissue, a type of fat tissue that burns calories and disposes of them as heat – a helpful tool for anyone seeking to lose weight. For years Western medicine has believed brown adipose tissue was not active in adults – no longer – brown fat is now a new target for drug design. Of course, no drug will be better than you simply getting your own brown fat working better.

Read More: brown adipose tissue, calorie burning as heat, DHA, Q 10

Get Rid of Your Cravings to Help Make Healthier Fat

One of my key themes for improving your metabolism is improving the fitness of your fat. This means making healthier white adipose tissue cells and reducing the inflammation coming from white adipose tissue. It also means restoring the proper balance of brown fat cells which are very handy for disposing of calories as heat. A new animal study demonstrates that when the primary food craving signal in your brain, NPY, is blunted then you start making more brown adipose tissue cells – a rather novel discovery.

Read More: brown adipose tissue, Ghrelin, hot flashes, NPY