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    Brown Fat and Obesity

    Everyone knows about FAT: we all care about it and everyone worries about it. Fat is among the most popular topics in the urbanized world, perhaps slightly less of a concern to the rural population and in some societies, an asset to some few. Our conversations about FAT are limited, most of the time, to “White” Adipose Tissue, referred to in the medical literature as WAT; most of us know nothing about brown fat – our Brown Adipose Tissue, jocularly nicknamed BAT. [1] Graphic from “ice bath science”, by Thomas P. Seager, PhD; https://www.morozkoforge.com/post/ice-bath-science [1] We have 2 types of…