In medically indicated weight loss, attention is typically focused on the associated health benefits. However, recent ...

Season of fertilization predetermines the metabolic fate of brown adipose tissue in human adults. Credit: Nature Metabolism (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s42255-025-01249-2 ...

Although obese individuals are at greater risk of diabetes, high blood pressure or high cholesterol, not all obese people ...

Inflammatory factors released by adipose tissue in COVID-19 patients may be the cause of damage to the heart, lungs, and nervous system described in such patients, she added.

Brown adipose tissue is very, very rich in mitochondria. Instead of being the powerhouse of the cell, those mitochondria are the furnace. It basically short-circuits the typical process so that ...

The researchers conclude that in individuals who are living with obesity, adipose tissue insulin resistance is more severe in men than in women, which may partly explain why T2D is more common in men.

Brown fat, also called brown adipose tissue, helps maintain your body temperature when you get too cold.It’s the same fat that bears use to stay warm when they hibernate. Babies are born with a ...

Objective To investigate if treatment with a single injection of autologous micro-fragmented adipose tissue improved patient-reported health compared with a placebo saline injection in patients ...

Omega-3 fatty acids are able to stimulate the activation of brown and beige adipose tissues, a discovery that would promote the development of new therapies for obesity and other metabolism ...

Traditionally, the accumulation of visceral adipose tissue has been considered one of the factors most strongly related to cardiometabolic risk and chronic (low-grade) inflammation in humans.