Newswise — Scientists say they know how white adipose cells — often called \”bad fat\” — can be converted into \”good,\” brown adipose in mice using little more than a synthetic stand-in for thyroid hormone.
Preliminary data presented by Houston Methodist metabolic disease expert Kevin Phillips, Ph.D., at the Endocrine Society\’s annual meeting in San Diego suggests GC-1, a pharmacological thyroid hormone mimic, is enough to transform obesity-associated white adipose into the brown cells that readily burn fat.
This post was imported from a legacy archive. Please excuse any formatting inconsistencies.