Energy balance
Exercise and cold exposure stimulate the 'browning' of white adipose tissue (WAT) by inducing beige adipocytes, which increases mitochondrial biogenesis and thermogenic capacity, thereby enhancing energy expenditure and improving metabolic health.
To improve your metabolic health and potentially reduce fat storage, engage in regular physical activity and consider cold exposure. These stimuli can trigger your white fat to develop brown-like characteristics (beige fat), which burn energy as heat. You do not need extreme workouts; even single bouts of exercise can initiate these beneficial mitochondrial changes.
Exercise has been recently considered as a physiological stimulus for brown adipose tissue activity... In the last decade, the 'beiging' of WAT associated with the expression of typical markers of BAT (like UCP1) in white adipocytes was revealed in response to exercise training.
Why this rating
The paper is a review citing multiple human and rodent studies confirming the phenomenon, though it notes some controversy regarding the extent in humans.
Source
Mitochondria in White, Brown, and Beige Adipocytes
Miroslava Čedíková et al. · Stem Cells International · 2016
DOI 10.1155/2016/6067349
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