Embracing the Cold: Dr. Susanna Søberg on the Benefits of Cold Therapy
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Do Women Have More Brown Fat Than Men?
Women have a large, you can say surface ratio to their, to their mass. Because if we are smaller, we have less muscle mass than men have and muscle generate heat. But in women, because we are also colder because we don't have as much muscle mass as men, we will have colder hands. And this is also what science shows. We have colder hands, colder feet and we have a smaller heart. So maybe we have more brown fat because of that because then we are exposed to more cold temperatures at all the same cold temperatures,. but we have to activate our heating system in the body to keep the same temperature at our core as the men. You can imagine that they
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