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Shivering as a Form of Exercise

2/5/2014

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(Living in an Ohio winter and looking on the bright side! - Sarah)

This winter’s frigid temperatures could be having one desirable side effect. They may be revving up your metabolism.

Shivering in the cold sparks a series of biochemical reactions deep within the body that alters fat cells and bolsters metabolism, much as formal exercise does, according to a fascinating series of new experiments. The findings intimate that exercise and shivering are related in ways not previously suspected.

For the new study, which was published Tuesday in Cell Metabolism, scientists affiliated with several branches of the National Institutes of Health recruited 10 healthy adult men and women and invited them to the lab on three separate occasions. There, the researchers drew blood and obtained small samples of muscle and fat cells.  Read more at NY Times



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