research help to earn money: The TU Munich is seeking tissues of participants for a study so-called brown fat. Join in and learn more about their own health!
Obesity and associated comorbidities, such as Diabetes or hypertension, are a growing Problem in our society. The surplus Kilos to get rid of, there are two basic options. Concerned can take in fewer calories – for example, by a suitable diet plan or medicines – and your energy consumption will increase. The latter succeeded so far only by athletic activity, which for many people is a big hurdle.
Brown fat protects against the cold
Meanwhile, however, the tissue moved an Organ in the focus, which can otherwise provide a remedy: the brown fat. Our love handles, is made up of both white and brown fat cells. Brown fat fulfills a different purpose than its “white brother”, which is for the storage of fat as an energy reserve in charge. the Brown burns fat namely fat , instead of store it, and so generates heat. Especially babies have a lot of it, to be in front of the cold temperatures, protected. Also in adults, small deposits of this body to find and activate, especially by cold.
The research to the brown adipose tissue are still relatively young and it still needs a lot of work to clarify the processes of this process clearly. the The chair for nutritional medicine, TU Munich tissue examined, for example, the genetic backgrounds for the Activation of brown fat. should be clarified in an ongoing human study, whether some people can activate their brown fat tissue better than others, if you are exposed to a short cold period. It is suspected that a gene mutation makes fat cells less sensitive to cold and, therefore, less calorie burn.
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For this study, are currently looking for participants for a short period of moderate cold want to expose. In addition to a reasonable compensation of 50 up to 100 Euro the participants will also receive information about their health status, such as body composition and resting energy expenditure. Interested parties should in General comply with the following requirements:
Healthy, no regular medications non-Smoking 18 to 40 years old, BMI is the Website of the Department of nutritional medicine, visit over 30 (self-weight calculate: “size in square” kg/m2) Europeans
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Now for the study sign up and 100 euros as well as health certificate to secure
+ If you are interested and have questions please contact directly laura.mengel@tum.de.©TU Munich
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