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RE: Can Cinnamon Help Reduce The Obesity Epidemic? Cinnamon Has Been Observed To Convert White Fat To Brown Fat
Mice are not humans, and the brown fat down regulates in summer, because no one wants to be running a fever because they have to much BAT. it is a good thing to research, it just will not be the silver bullet there is a reason that humans do not naturally have the higher % of BAT compared with other species... look into it
Very true that the mouse model cannot be used to explain digestive behaviour in humans entirely. There will always be some tiny but significant differences. However, there is quite a chance that cinnamon actually does* work as described in humans as well. If it does, I personally will be on the safe side as I just love cinnamon and tend to eat lots of it. If not, I still have the pleasure to enjoy its taste every day. ;-)
@justtryme90, Are you aware of any human trials in this context?
No I am not. Typically the use of models like rat, mouse, dog etc. Preceeds any sort of human trial. I don't suspect that this result will inspire a human trial either. It's positive and quite interesting, but actual human trials cost millions... I don't think people would valuate these findings as worth the money risk.
At least not in the US. However this was a Chinese research group. So perhaps things would be viewed differently there? I don't know.
Very true but if this "cinnamon link" turns out to be significant, I'm pretty sure that some larger company might be interested in conducting some studies.But we'll see... I hope we'll at least see some further basic research in this area.
I suspect they won't if only because there wouldn't be a way to monetize cinnamon. Perhaps I am being too cynical.
I only described the research to the best of my ability. I don't suspect it will be the silver bullet :)
I did think this paper was interesting however.
Thank you for reading and commenting.