date:Jun 28, 2019
have a higher amount of brown fat.
Brown fat works in a different way to other fat in your body and produces heat by burning sugar and fat, often in response to cold, said Professor Michael Symonds who co-directed the study.
Increasing its activity improves blood sugar control as well as improving blood lipid levels and the extra calories burnt help with weight loss. However, until now, no one has found an acceptable way to stimulate its activity in humans.
This is the first study in humans t