Huberman Lab cover image

How to Use Cold & Heat Exposure to Improve Your Health | Dr. Susanna Søberg

Huberman Lab

00:00

Sleeping in cold environment might be beneficial for activating your brown fat

Cold is the most potent stress or activator of our brown fat because it's our temperature regulating organ and our body so first responder to that. And therefore we have maybe these two kind of tissues. So you can get more brown fat if you expose yourself to the cold. You don't have to start in a cold shower. But just exposing yourself to thecold wind has also shown to activate your brown fat. Or if you don't want to be like in this awake state then you can also just sleep in the cold but studies have shown that if you sleep in 19 degrees Celsius then you will activate your Brown Fat.

Play episode from 45:40
Transcript

The AI-powered Podcast Player

Save insights by tapping your headphones, chat with episodes, discover the best highlights - and more!
App store bannerPlay store banner
 Get the app