Brown Fat, Brown Adipose Tissue: What It Is & What It Means
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helps regulate sugar (glucose) and fat metabolism.
burn calories by creating heat right before your body starts to shiver (thermogenesis)
stores energy and burns that energy to regulate your body temperature
Beige fat is a combination of white and brown fat cells. These cells burn calories to regulate body temperature by converting white fat cells to brown
Burns calories.
fat cells are full of mitochondria
Brown fat is brown because
Mitochondria is made up of a lot of iron, which gives brown fat its color
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