You too in the middle of winter Children walk around outside in thin clothing Do you feel like you have to dress in layers?

If so, explain this situation There’s a scientific reason…

Our body starts burning fat before it starts shivering from the cold.

However, it is not white fat as we know it, it is brown fat. While white fat functions as energy storage in our body; Brown fat produces heat by burning energy directly.

brown fat cells, are much smaller than white fat cells and looks more like muscles. They contain large amounts of mitochondria, which gives them their brown color.

Brown fat occurs in certain parts of our body: neck, shoulders, upper arms, spine and abdomen. Brown fat in these areas helps regulate body temperature by warming the blood.

For example, babies cannot tremble when they are born because their muscle mass and muscle-brain coordination are not yet sufficiently developed.

That’s why they need brown fat to warm their bodies. of babies 2% to 5% of body weight comes from brown fat occurs.

The amount of brown fat, reaches its peak during adolescence In other words, we can say that the young people wearing shorts that we see in winter are not really cold.

However less brown fat as the body ages produces and this causes the elderly to feel colder.

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