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How to Use Temperature to Improve Athletic Performance with Dr Craig Heller, PhD

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The Effects of Cold Baths on Brown Fat

Brown fat has very high capacity for burning fuel. So we can potentially induce this by getting into cold baths. As a percentage then, what does the average adult have in terms of brown to white fat? And where is it stored? Oh, you wouldn't know. Is that? That's so intense. I don't know what the percentage would vary. It's not huge, but it has veryhigh capacity forburning fuel. We're very good at regulating our intake to match what we're losing. The balance of the intake and the utilization over long periods of time could help people lose weight.

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