thermogenic
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Supplement makers tout ingredients such as green tea, caffeine, capsaicin, selenium and more, either individually or in, as one company puts it, a “thermogenic fat-burning complex,” as metabolism boosters.
From Washington Post
Zeng and colleagues’ study might therefore inform therapeutic strategies to enhance sympathetic innervation, and thereby harness the thermogenic potential of BAT to combat obesity and its metabolic consequences.
From Nature
They observed that the expression of Clstn3b is also induced in beige fat by exposure to cold; beige fat consists of adipocytes in white fat that can be triggered to become thermogenic by cold and other stimuli4.
From Nature
In humans, BAT had been thought to exist only in infants, until imaging studies revealed deposits of thermogenic brown fat in adults10.
From Nature
Thus, other ways of inducing the formation and activation of thermogenic fat would be very valuable.
From Nature
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