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Science of ice baths, brown fat and metabolism | Susanna Soeberg, PhD

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How to Increase Non-Shivering Thermogenesis

The body can also heat itself up through shivering which I'm sure everyone most people have experience at some point. Do we see people that have less brown fat? Do they shiver more when they're exposed to cold, do they kind of make up for their reduced capability to do non-shivering thermogenesis by just shivering more as a kind of method to heat themselves up? Yes exactly that is what's going on so you have these two kind of tissues in the body that can increase your thermogenesis but if you are lacking that organ then we would need the other one to activate and keep you warm. If you easily shiver it might be also showing that you are not exposing

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