What is Metabolic Adaptation?
Why can some people eat and eat, yet not gain weight, whilst others are constantly dieting and restricting their calories… but failing to lose weight?
Bonus Appendix 3: Thermogenesis
BROWN FAT – WHITE FAT
As discussed in chapter 3, internal heat production, or thermogenesis, by the chemical dinitrophenol (DNP) is dangerous and potentially lethal. But scientists have known for some time that thermogenesis can also occur in a planned biological manner, as a mechanism for smaller mammals to avoid freezing to death from hypothermia.