thermogenesis

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When exposed to cold, brown fat uses glucose and lipids to produce heat through a process called thermogenesis.

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"During thermogenesis, all of that chemical energy is dissipated as heat instead of being stored in the body as white fat," said Farnaz Shamsi, assistant professor of molecular pathobiology at NYU College of Dentistry and the study's senior author.

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"We found genes that in larger animals are associated with mitochondrial thermogenesis in brown adipose tissue," Gallio said.

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This calorie burning through heat production is known as thermogenesis.

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Instead of lowering temperature, they investigated whether diet alone could switch on thermogenesis.

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