The researchers hypothesize that brown adipose tissue (BAT) offers protection against compromised healthy longevity, ...

Here’s what fat cells are and their impact on weight loss. Fat cells, also known as adipocytes, are very much needed for storing energy in the form of fat. When we gain weight, these cells ...

Medically reviewed by Aviv Joshua, MS Creatine is a compound produced naturally in the body by amino acids. About 95% of this ...

Meanwhile, inactive muscle and brown fat use little energy: One pound (0.45 kilogram) of relaxed muscle burns 6 calories and ...

Obesity, which affects 650 million people worldwide, influences the development of cardiometabolic diseases and increases the risk of cancer.

Experiments showed that when mitochondrial protein MCJ is removed from obese mice the animals produce more heat and lose ...

Green tea contains bioactive substances that may help boost your metabolism and break down fat cells. However, weight loss research has focused on green tea extracts or supplements, not the beverage.

“Rather than targeting the stem cells, targeting the mature fat provides a [therapeutic ... effective anti-obesity drugs than simply activating energy-burning brown fat. “Having brown fat is ...

This work reveals a new mechanism by which brown fat is converted into heat, and which protects from pathologies associated ...

Newly reported research in human tissue ... heat and lose weight. The researchers also showed that they could reduce the weight of obese mice by transplanting the animals with fat lacking MCJ.