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RE: Turning White Fat to Beige Fat - New Disconfirming Evidence on IL-4 Contribution [Research]
I tend to agree - with the use it or lose it. Not to fall into the other extreme and bash the amazing aspects of modern life, but it might be useful and healthy every once in a while to engage in cold exposure - the uncomfortable one :)
I'd be interested to see more research in humans with respect to our ability to produce beige and BAT - as adults. thanks for engaging!
They say that Michael Phelps the swimmer ate 12,000 calories a day while training -- that's 4 times the normal calorie intake.
Now -- certainly he was burning a lot of energy to swim. But -- he was also spending hours each day in pool water of around 80 degrees (olympic racing mandates pool temps of 77 - 82 degrees.)
I bet his brown fat was healthy and functional!