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This project explores the role of brown fat in energy metabolism and its potential in treating obesity and diabetes. It investigates the genetic and hormonal factors influencing brown fat function and thermogenesis.
The twin pandemic of obesity and diabetes is one of the greatest health challenges we face today.
While fat is at the center of the problem, it may also be part of the solution.
It has recently been shown that humans have brown or brown-like fat, whose primary function is to burn, rather than store, energy.
This energy-consuming capacity of brown and brown-like fat has the potential to be harnessed to treat obesity and diabetes.
The host supervisor has recently discovered that brown adipose tiss…
KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET
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