Brown Fat Get Rid of White Fat: What’s Brown Fat?
November 26, 2009 | 2 Comments
Over 30 years ago, some scientists believed that Adipose Tissue (BAT) controlled obesity.
What is BAT?
BAT is a high energy tissue that changes food energy into heat and stores white fat energy. On the other hand; some researchers were actually skeptical about this idea because there wasn’t that much within humans. However, the invention of Positron Emission Tomography (PET) actually changed opinions.
What is a PET/CT Scan?
Positron Emission Tomography /Computed Tomography, or PET/CT, is a dedicated scanner which incorporates both PET and CT technology into a single unit. PET/CT is a whole body scan that can effectively detect and evaluate many types of cancer earlier and more accurately than any other imaging tests. PET/CT is also helpful in diagnosing certain neurological conditions such as uncontrollable seizures or Alzheimer’s disease.
It’s basically 3D X-ray in colors with High Definition.
How Does Invention of PET Help Me?
In order for you to get PET scan, the hospital injects you with radio active glucose! This radio active sugar helps detect and catch your body in action, and it activates your brown fat.
Other than detecting brain problems, and cancers accurately in HD, you also burn calories equivalent to intense fitness exercise.
Energy Metabolism Works through Several Coupled Reactions
In other words, energy is released by breaking down carbohydrates, proteins and fats. It is then gathered in other reactions, for example, a high energy chemical like ATP synthesis or storing carbs and fats. Uncoupling happens when energy from a meal is broken down and released as heat rather than capturing it as ATR Brown fat and changing food energy into heat.
Two ounces of this metabolically active tissue (the brown fat) can burn a total of 500 calories daily. Drug companies are trying to come up with a pill that will increase your metabolism by controlling uncoupling in brown fat. As a result, this controls body fat. Increasing brown fat activity and production can encourage weight loss and help people conquer obesity altogether.
Final thoughts
There’s nothing we can do right now to increase the brown fat in humans but keep your eyes open for a new drug made with radio active sugar!
Source: Obesity Reviews, 10: 265-268, 2009
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Boost Your Immune System with a Massage
November 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Winter is rolling around the corner. Which means we have to be careful not to catch any cold or flue. And the most recent research tells us “relax and enjoy a nice massage” for cold/flue prevention. A massage not only relaxes the muscles after a tough workout, it can also boost your immune system.
According to a Spanish study, a post-exercise massage may prevent training related colds and even the flu. During the study, both women and men were given a mild electrical stimulation (control treatment) or a massage after 3/30-second maximal exercise sessions on a exercise bike. The end results proved that the massages actually boost levels of immunoglobulin hormone that controls the immune system.
*Immunoglobulins, also known as antibodies. Antibodies are made by the body’s immune system in response to bacteria, viruses, fungus, animal dander, or cancer cells. Antibodies attach to the foreign substances so the immune system can destroy them.
Source: Journal Strength Conditioning Research, 23: 638-644, 2009
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Training on a BOSU Ball v.s. Solid Ground
November 25, 2009 | 6 Comments
Even after the first research (Instability Training: Does It Work?) done by Journal Strength Conditioning Research concluded that there is no difference between muscle activation other than core muscles, people still believe “this half ball” gives them better results.
Our core muscles sustain and provide the base for good lower and upper body movements. Jeffrey Willardson and colleagues from Eastern Illinois University discovered that there is no difference from performing dead lifts, overhead presses, bicep curls and squats on the BOSU balls than it is on solid ground.
How to ‘Effectively’ Perform Exercises
In order to effectively perform the exercises just mentioned above, you have to stabilize your core muscles during whole body, intense weight training. When people exercise on unstable surfaces, the capacity for maximal core muscle contraction reduces.
According to many, BOSU ball training is nothing but a fitness trend! You’re better off ditching the BOSU balls and train on solid ground.
Source: International Journal Sports Physiology Performance, 4: 97-109, 2009
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Endurance Exercises to Gain Muscle Mass?
November 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Our skeletal muscle cells are one of a kind mainly because they have more than one nucleus. During weight training, we experience cell damage called DOMS. When this happens, our muscle cells multiply cell nuclei by developing satellite cells. This heightens the ability of future muscle hypertrophy and even aids trained muscles in maintaining its enlarged size.
Endurance Training May Contribute to Increasing Muscle Hypertrophy
A recent experiment on rodents by scientists from Juntendo University in Japan proved that endurance training actually encouraged muscle satellite cell growth without even amplifying the size of a muscle cell. New satellite cells more than likely encouraged the growth of muscle cell mitochondria (cell energy centers) and enable the muscles to repair itself.
It is likely that endurance training may contribute to increasing muscle hypertrophy if athletes have sufficient levels of anabolic hormones, practiced weight training an increased their intake of protein.
Final Thought
Endurance training after weight training shortens recovery time and increases muscle gain.
Source: Journal of Sports Science and Medicine, 8: 51-57, 2009
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Growing Your Muscles
November 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Many people are unaware that the skeletal muscle is considered to be a very reactive tissue that expands in size in response to weight training and atrophies (losing muscle size) in reaction to low loads (extended bed rest).
The following include the effects of muscle growth according to Espen Spangenburg from the department of kinesiology at the University of Maryland:
• Weight training, also referred to as “mechanical loading”, activates the muscle protein synthesis, by turning on the motor signaling pathway.
• Weight training increases the shift of amino acids into muscle cells.
• Weight training stimulates the growth of muscles (IGF1) to accelerate protein synthesis.
• Muscle tissue recognizes weight training with cell membrane sensors, which generates protein synthesis.
So, what is the key ingredient for helping your muscles to grow? The main ingredient is weight training.
Source: Applied Physiology Nutrition Metabolism, 34:328-335, 2009
