There has been increasing evidence of cold stress and fat loss. My understanding is that cold stress increases the BAT (brown fat) cells, which helps burn fat for energy source.<p>I have been reading the articles in this blog: <a href="http://hypothermics.com/" rel="nofollow">http://hypothermics.com/</a>. It is an excellent blog that chronicles many of the findings and the author performs a lot of these tests on himself.
This is something under active research, and it might have some true behind, there are some cases in the hospital where you see people doing diet as they should and not lossing weight at all and at the same time they have some autoimmune condition.<p>It wouldn't surprise me to see a true connection found in a couple of years between autoimmune conditions and weight in a reciprocal way.
“Obviously, one possible starting point in combatting obesity could be to inhibit the inflammatory response in abdominal fat while administering cGMP-stimulating active ingredients,” says Prof. Pfeifer to summarize the findings.<p>As someone with body fat predominantly in the torso I would love to benefit from this research.
"As the researchers have shown in various studies on mice, the widespread active ingredient sildenafil or a medication against pulmonary hypertension, for instance, can be used to reduce the number of white fat cells to the benefit of the brown fat cells and thus accelerate fat burning like a turbocharger."<p>isn't Sildenafil Viagra??
Isn't there research that shows that ketosis provides an anti-inflammatory response? Moving into ketosis for fat-loss may be the right thing to do (at least for a period)...
This is interestingly related to Dinitrophenol, which is widely used by bodybuilders:<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2,4-Dinitrophenol" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2,4-Dinitrophenol</a>
As for ways to keep inflammation down, I <i>assume</i> cold baths and aspirin aren't exactly "enough" for noticeable effects at the moment.<p>Are there any more good ways to treat inflammation that would be a good supplement to exercise?
I wonder how effective it would be from a diet perspective if you were to add things that are anti-inflamitory to your diet. (I.e. Green Tea extract suppliments)
The problem here is what happens when the inflammation goes down? All that fat that's been stored is still going to be burned as energy assuming one is eating within a caloric balance.<p>It's frustrating to read all this research into the mechanism of what causes fat to be stored short term, because we already know what <i>really</i> causes fat to be stored long term: eating too much.<p>We need to be researching the reward systems associated with eating, and we need to start treating obesity as the mental health issue it is. It's a food addiction, and what we don't need to understand more deeply is how fat is stored. What we do need to understand more deeply is why people eat too much and how to get them to comply to healthier lifestyles. The answers are going to look a lot like drug addiction (ie: people are self-medicating depression, anxiety, etc. with food).