Lose Weight -- Stay in bed
Fourty eight hours of darkness trigger a shift in the body from burning glucose to fat. Time to hibernate for the summer.
Constant darkness throws a molecular switch in mammals that shifts the body's fuel consumption from glucose to fat and induces a state of torpor in mice...
While their findings could provide new insight into mammalian hibernation, researchers note that the pivotal metabolic signal that emerged from the dark also presents a new target for obesity and type 2 diabetes research.
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