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Estrogen promotes fat oxidation and reduces lipogenesis in muscle and liver, and increases uncoupling protein 1 (UCP1) in brown adipose tissue, thereby enhancing energy expenditure.
Estrogen helps your body burn fat more efficiently by activating enzymes that break down fatty acids and by making brown fat burn energy as heat. This is why women typically store less visceral fat than men before menopause.
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E2 improves fat oxidation through the phosphorylation of AMP-kinase (AMPK) in muscle and myotubes in culture [80, 81] and malonyl-CoA inactivation by increasing the affinity of carnitine palmitoyltransferase [82].
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Supported by multiple animal studies and in vitro experiments cited in the review.
Source
Estrogen Deficiency and the Origin of Obesity during Menopause
Fernando Lizcano et al. · BioMed Research International · 2014
DOI 10.1155/2014/757461
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