I'll be quick because your time is precious: but generally speaking, all the garbage diet fads and products that say you can "hack" your body are not worth your money.
However, scientists have successfully performed what's referred to as cold-induced browning in rats, which may end up benefiting us too!
It's early stages but if the researchers can hit the jackpot, weight loss can and will be spurred on by a few injections, amidst the ever challenging problems evident today courtesy of obesity and diabetes.
Cold-induced Browning - Gut Microbiome/microbiota
As human beings, we have white fat and brown fat: brown fat is more readily used as energy during exercise whilst white fat is the result of overeating.
One of the many benefits of exercise is to turn our white fat into brown. Another way to turn white fat into brown is to expose yourself to the cold, not something we like doing though!
However, a new type of fat cell has been discovered in human beings called the "beige" fat cell (2), which can change from a state of energy storage and dissipation.
Studies into mice have found a few different catalysts of the appearance of beige fat cells in white fat pads - this process is known as "browning." Obviously, when the cells are brown, they are more readily used as energy, thus making us leaner, which is just what we want!
A recent study has identified a new pathway responsible for the browning of white fat - and that is gut microbiome (3).
Gut microbiome is altered under cold conditions. When mice exposed to the cold have their gut microbiome transferred to the recipient mouse, the recipient mouse loses fat and has improved insulin sensitivity, thanks to the enhanced browning!
Interestingly, the same group of scientists report that in mice also, antibiotic therapy that depletes gut microbiota also induces browning and fat loss (4). There's certainly more work to be done here but it's so far very interesting!
Fat Loss Injections for Human Beings
Early efforts using these findings in human beings have provided "mixed results that have not been as uniformly impressive" as those in rats (1).
However, as the research progresses, we'll learn more about gut microbiome and whether or not we can find a way to get the same results as our four-legged friends!
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References
(1) Rosen ED. Burning fat by bugging the system. N Engl J Med. 2016;374:885-887.
(2) Rosen ED, Spiegelman BM. What we talk about when we talk about fat. Cell 2014;156:20-44.
(3) Chevalier C, Stojanovic O, Colin DJ, et al. Gut microbiota orchestrates energy homeostasis during cold. Cell 2015;163:1360-74.
(4) Suarez-Zamorano N et al. Microbiota depletion promotes browning of white adipose tissue and reduces obesity. Nat Med. 2015 Dec;21(12):1497-501. doi: 10.1038/nm.3994. Epub 2015 Nov 16.
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