A Fat That Makes You Thin [New Research].
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
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🗓️ 4 January 2018
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
As we head into this new year, full of hope and resolutions, the most popular goal is to lose weight and get fit. Optimizing your health and getting fit is a key element of filling your Vitality Bucket. And, it often includes eating better, moving your body and, wait for it, shedding fat.
But, here's the thing. Over the last decade, research has revealed that all fat is not created equal. What fat cells, while serving certain necessary roles, are the ones we tend to fear. The ones that make up nearly all the fat in our body, store energy, make us larger, and often lead to inflammation and contribute to an array of metabolic disease.
Brown fat, though, does the exact opposite. It is like a caloric furnace, helps us get lean, better control glucose sensitivity and more. As babies, we have a ton of it. But, by the time we become grown-ups, there is very little left.
What if there was a way to increase the brown fat in your body as a way to turn up the furnace, lose weight and get healthier? What if you could actually turn your white fat brown? Turns out, you can! That's was we're talking about in today's Good Life Update, which is a rare expanded Good Life Science deep-dive. And, as always, for those who want to go to the source, here's a link to the full study we mentioned as the "leading edge" in this research.
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| 0:00.0 | What if you actually had a type of fat cell in your body that made you skinnier? |
| 0:08.0 | I know, sounds like a dream, right? |
| 0:10.9 | Turns out that in fact, all fat is not equal. |
| 0:15.4 | That we have different types of fat cells at a post-tational in our body. |
| 0:19.3 | And one particular type, storage energy, plumping us up, the other type actually burns energy |
| 0:25.8 | pretty fiercely, making us leaner and also regulating things like glucose in our body and |
| 0:32.1 | all sorts of other things that would be super beneficial. |
| 0:34.8 | Which is really important considering this time of year, a lot of people are making resolutions |
| 0:39.6 | and the single biggest one that people make over and over and over, the same one every |
| 0:44.4 | year and fail is to lose weight. |
| 0:46.6 | We're going to explore these two different types of fat cells and three interesting approaches |
| 0:52.8 | to getting more of the good and less of the bad. |
| 0:56.4 | In today's Good Life Update, I'm Jonathan Fields and this is Good Life Project. |
| 1:04.6 | Ah, fat. |
| 1:06.7 | It is that thing that we love to hate, hate to love. |
| 1:10.2 | We love the taste of fatty stuff in our foods but we don't love the way that fat within |
| 1:15.8 | our body makes us feel we don't love. |
| 1:17.9 | The inflammation that very often is associated with a very high level of fat within our body, |
| 1:25.3 | within our cells and all sorts of other risk and disease and cosmetic things that go along |
| 1:30.2 | with it. |
| 1:31.2 | But here's the thing about fat. |
| 1:34.4 | All that it turns out is not created equal. |
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