As the body ages, brown adipose tissue activity decreases, fewer calories are burned, and this can contribute to obesity and certain chronic cardiovascular diseases that worsen with age. A study led ...

New York: A team of US researchers has made discoveries about brown fat that may open a new path to helping people stay physically fit as they age. The team from Rutgers University’s New Jersey ...

In the battle against obesity, a new player is emerging, and surprisingly enough, it is a type of fat. Harvard Medical School researchers have highlighted the potential of this fat as a novel target ...

Cutting a single amino acid from the diet caused rapid, drastic weight loss in mice by converting white fat into calorie-burning brown fat. The study reveals a powerful new mechanism for weight loss ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new way the body can burn energy and stay warm. Deep inside fat tissue, they found a hidden system that helps the body use up calories, even without exercise. By ...

Cutting calories doesn’t just slim you down—it also reduces cysteine, an amino acid that flips fat cells from storage mode to fat-burning mode. Researchers found that lowering cysteine sparks the ...

A study conducted by researchers at the Center for Redox Processes in Biomedicine (Redoxoma) has shown that ATP-sensitive mitochondrial potassium channels (MitoK ATP) are involved in both the ...

A new study led by researchers at WashU Medicine reveals possible new avenues to exploit brown fat to treat metabolic diseases, such as obesity. Infrared images indicate reduced levels of heat ...

Higher activity of PGC-1α enables brown fat cells in females to thermogenic activity and energy expenditure compared to males, reveals a study conducted in Japan. This research demonstrates that ...