Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Sleep is essential for good health, as we all know. But a new study hints that there may be an easy but unrealized way to augment its virtues: lower the thermostat. Cooler bedrooms could subtly transform a person’s stores of brown fat — what has lately come to be thought of as “good fat” — and consequently alter energy expenditure and metabolic health, even into daylight hours.
Until recently, most scientists thought that adults had no brown fat. But in the past few years, scanty deposits — teaspoonfuls, really — of the tissue have been detected in the necks and upper backs in many adults. This is important because brown fat, unlike the more common white stuff, is metabolically active. Experiments with mice have shown that it takes sugar out of the bloodstream to burn calories and maintain core temperature.
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/07/17/lets-cool-it-in-the-bedroom/
I would LOVE to have a cool bedroom!!! 🙂 I never have any heating in the bedroom.
Until recently, most scientists thought that adults had no brown fat. But in the past few years, scanty deposits — teaspoonfuls, really — of the tissue have been detected in the necks and upper backs in many adults. This is important because brown fat, unlike the more common white stuff, is metabolically active. Experiments with mice have shown that it takes sugar out of the bloodstream to burn calories and maintain core temperature.
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/07/17/lets-cool-it-in-the-bedroom/
I would LOVE to have a cool bedroom!!! 🙂 I never have any heating in the bedroom.
