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Brown fat tissue is considered to be the body’s good fat. A role of this good fat is to communicate with the brain via the sensory nerves. It conveys information that is essential to combat human obesity. It conveys how much fat is present in our bodies and also how much fat has been lost. A study about this good fat was recently carried out by Georgia State University.
The discoveries, issued in The Journal of Neuroscience, support the description of the discussion that takes place between the brain and the brown fat tissue while brown fat is producing heat.
Brown fat is also a “good fat” or can be considered as “healthy fat” for it has the capacity to burn calories — that helps in generating heat needed for our bodies — and it is able to distribute energy. On the other hand, white fat’s role is to store energy that can be used for the future which actually increases the danger for health problems particularly heart disease and diabetes. In fact, a healthy and fit individual has a good metabolism which indicates that he/she has a dynamic stock of brown fat and have less white fat.
Research illustrates that brown fat has a great role in helping someone have the ability to burn more energy which can be considered as an effective tool to stay fit and combat obesity. Pharmaceutical establishments are making efforts to target brown fat and stimulate it more, said Johnny Garretson, study writer and graduate student in the Neuroscience Institute and Center for Obesity Reversal at Georgia State.
The study discovered that when brown fat tissue was stimulated with a drug that mimics the sympathetic nervous system messages that typically come from the brain, the fat communicated back to the brain by stimulating nerve senses. The nerve senses from brown fat augmented their activity in reaction to direct chemical stimulation and heat production.
Garretson said, “This is the first time that the function of sensory nerves from brown fat has been examined.” He added, “Brown fat is an active organ that’s relatively important for metabolism, and we found a new pathway of its communication.
“The study informs us more about the communication between fat and the brain, which is really beneficial for treating human obesity. There is evidence that people with more brown fat have a better metabolism, lower instances of type II diabetes and are trimmer. Knowing how to increase the amount of brown fat activity or increase the brown fat, that’s the future of trying to figure out yet another way to try and lose weight effectively and quickly.”
The studies formed a theory about the brown fat. The theory says that the brown fat is telling several things to the brain which include the following:
a.how much heat is being produced
b.how much free energy and what energy types are being utilized or kept
c.how much fat are present and how much fat were lost
Garretson also cited, “As brown fat gets hotter and starts to generate heat, being active and doing good things for our body, it increases our metabolism and helps us burn white fat.” “As it’s getting hotter, Dr. (Vitaly) Ryu and other members of our lab found that it tells the brain it’s getting hotter. We think this is some type of feedback, like a thermostat, and as it gets hotter, it probably controls how the brain is talking back to it.”
Garretson remarked that study groups have examined the communication between fat and brain for many years, but only a few laboratories in the world made an examination of the communication from fat to the brain via the nervous system.
