How Brown Fat Works For Diabetes?

In the process of warming the body, brown fat uses a large number of calories and glucose. It sucks up excessive amounts of glucose or sugar in the blood by the process of thermogenesis in which it produces large amounts of a particular substance that sends glucose into the brown fat cells where it is burned to manufacture heat. Thereby taking away excess glucose in the blood. The important point to be noted here is that this happens at a far faster rate than any other body mechanisms use to absorb glucose into the bloodstream. Under stimulation, the brown fat cells produce 10 times or more of the amount of glucose transporters than insulin is capable of.

For patients of Type 2 diabetes whose bodies do not utilize insulin correctly and leading high blood glucose levels, these findings are important as it could open the doors to new drugs that can stimulate brown cells and lower blood glucose levels without the use of insulin.

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