Melatonin Helps Control Weight Gain as It Stimulates the Appearance of ?beige Fat?

[Northerner]

Spanish scientists have discovered that melatonin consumption helps control weight gain because it stimulates the appearance of 'beige fat', a type of fat cell that burns calories in vivo instead of storing them. White adipose tissue stores calories leading to weight gain whereas 'beige fat' (also known as 'good or thinning fat') helps regulate body weight control, hence its metabolic benefits.

In the Journal of Pineal Research, scientists from the University of Granada Institute for Neuroscience, the Hospital Carlos III, Madrid, and the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio (USA) have revealed, for the first time, the previously unknown enigma of why melatonin has metabolic benefits in treating diabetes and hyperlipidemia.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/09/130925091745.htm

 

[trophywench]

That sounds really promising for the rats LOL

(But I always remember that guinea pigs are violently allergic to penicillin ......)

 

[LeeLee]

That sounds really promising for the rats LOL

(But I always remember that guinea pigs are violently allergic to penicillin ......)

And paracetamol can kill a cat.