Who Else Wants to Find Out How Brown Fat Can Help You
Burn More Body Fat?

Believe it or not, brown adipose tissue, or brown fat also known as thermogenesis fat, is a good, fat-burning fat in your body.
It's the... fat that burns the fat. Learn more about it to understand how to burn more calories rather than store them as unsightly flab.

Shocking as it may seem to you, not all your body fat is bad. Your adipose tissue is not an inert mass; it’s an active and important endocrine organ, vital for your survival - especially the brown body fat.

A good body fat percentage is one that's actually healthy. Essential fat is not only an insulator that preserves your body’s heat and energy, but also the critical support for all the chemistry between your brain and the rest of your body. Your body’s essential fat produces many necessary enzymes and hormones and controls your body’s immunity and inflammation levels.

Very simplified, there are two types of body fat, or adipose tissue:

• subcutaneous fat, located directly under the skin and more visible at buttocks, hips, and thighs
  
  
• visceral fat, deep-seated in the body and cushioning spinal column, arteries and vital organs: heart, liver, kidneys, and intestines

It’s long known that excess body fat is stored as white fat both subcutaneously and internally, as dangerous visceral fat.

But what about the fat-burning, brown body fat?

Well, brown fat cells are loaded with mitochondria (specialized, energy-producing cells) that contain iron--that's why the reddish-brown color. Until recently, scientists thought that only newborns have brown, thermogenesis fat (to help them stay warm) and that brown body fat disappears with age.

Not any more. Recent scientific studies cited by CNN, Canada.com and many other news agencies, show not only that brown fat does not completely disappear with age, but that thin people have a lot more of it than overweight people. Moreover, it was found that women have more brown body fat than men.

So what does this mean to you? How does it help you burn the fat that's on your buttocks, hips, and thighs?

Well, because brown fat is heavily involved in temperature regulation, it consumes a lot of energy (in the form of calories). So a bigger amount of brown body fat, which develops in lower temperatures, would help in burning more calories.

Could it be as simple as turning down the heat to burn more calories?

Actually, there’s more to it.

Thermogenesis Brown Fat vs. Storage White Fat

You already know that white fat is your storage fat, your source of energy during lean times. While a little is essentially useful, in large amounts it affects not only your body image and self-esteem, but all your other bodily functions as well.

Brown fat, or thermogenesis fat, is your "fat-burning fat". To understand how fat can burn fat, we need a bit of background.

Here’s what thermogenesis is all about.

Mitochondria in your brown body fat are specialized, energy-producing cells. They work around the clock converting your body fat into heat energy to maintain your body’s constant temperature.

When you have a healthy metabolism, mitochondria in your brown, thermogenesis fat also convert any extra calories that you eat into additional heat energy, making you sweat.

As you can see, thermogenesis explains why it may be that a friend of yours can eat all day without gaining an ounce, while you may put pounds on just thinking about food! Your friend has a more active brown body fat, while your brown fat might be dormant.

Agonizing, isn’t it? But why is that?

Well, part of it is a low thermogenesis in your body (a low level of sweating), but another part is the quality of your daily diet. That’s because brown body fat becomes less active and ultimately shuts down completely when - as a result of eating highly processed foods on a regular basis - you start to experience an essential fatty acid deficiency.

As you can see, the activity of your brown fat can be adjusted so it helps you burn off extra calories instead of store them as sluggish, white body fat and avoid the many health risks associated with being overweight.

Want to burn the fat and get fit in the shortest amount of time? You need practical solutions along with a structured, short- and long-term strategy to maximize your body’s fat burning engine, right?

By far, the best guide on losing the most body fat faster is Tom Venuto's "Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle" - take a look and see for yourself.

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