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Brown fat, or brown adipose tissue (BAT), stores energy in a smaller space than white fat. It’s packed with iron-rich mitochondria, which is how it gets its color. When brown fat burns, it creates heat without shivering. This process is called
thermogenesis. During this process, the brown fat also burns calories. Brown fat is highly regarded as a possible treatment for obesity and some metabolic syndromes.
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adults have small reserves of brown fat. It’s typically stored in small deposits around the shoulders and neck.
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How to get brown fat
In a way, brown fat is “good” fat.
Humans with higher levels of brown fat may have lower bodyweights, for example.
All people have some “
constitutive” brown fat, which is the kind you’re born with. There’s also another form that’s “recruitable.” This means it can change to brown fat under the right circumstances. This recruitable type is found in muscles and white fat throughout your body.
There are certain drugs that can cause the browning of white fat. Thiazolidinediones (TZDs), a drug used to help manage insulin resistance, can help with brown fat accumulation.
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Turn the temperature down
Exposing your body to cool and even cold temperatures may help recruit more brown fat cells. Some
research has suggested that just two hours of exposure each day to temperatures around 66˚F (19˚C) may be enough to turn recruitable fat to brown.
You may consider taking a cold shower or ice bath. Turning the thermostat down a few degrees in your home or going outside in cold weather are other ways to cool your body and possibly create more brown fat.'
Brown fat is technically considered "good" fat, but additional research is needed. Learn more about what we know.
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'Young Women with Cold-Activated Brown Adipose Tissue Have Higher Bone Mineral Density and Lower Pref-1 than Women without Brown Adipose Tissue[...]'
Anorexia nervosa (AN) is associated with depletion of body fat, loss of bone mineral density (BMD), and impaired thermogenesis. Brown adipose tissue (BAT) is lower in obese individuals and decreases during aging. Recent studies have suggested a link between ...
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'Adipose tissue (fat tissue) exists as two types, white and brown. And research (
1) has shown that this adipose tissue accumulates around the follicles of healthy, actively growing hair (such as in the occipital region), but not around dormant follicles (as in the male pattern baldness region).
It's been observed that hair loss surgery employing the Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE) method often lacks the protective layer of fat that other transplant techniques (such as Follicular Unit Transplantation or FUT) manage to extract from the donor site (
2). And because of this, poor hair regrowth can result.
Also, studies have been made that link adipose tissue to angiogenesis (i.e., this fat encourages new blood vessel formation) (
3)(
4).
So, for all these reasons, it's highly likely that adipose tissue assists hair growth'.'
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