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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chris24Main" data-source="post: 2738961" data-attributes="member: 585131">Reading that article (again?) - I'm kind of so immersed in this at the moment, that every piece of information is now building on others - like that part of doing a jigsaw puzzle were it seems to start getting easy, because you can see the general picture - before it gets harder again...So - one of the reasons I tend to go paddleboarding at daybreak in Yorkshire in December, is precisely because you can be just the right amount of cold - cold but not shivery.. which stimulates brown fat to produce heat (in a process that I now understand  - mitochondrial uncoupling - but I'm not going to explain that). Also walking at night with a thin fleece - if you walk fast, you are not shivering cold, but you are definitely cold - all of this burns body fat - IF - your metabolic state allows you to burn any body fat - insulin rules if it's around.The gist of the article is - yes, cold works (if not so cold that you shiver - basically this means your hypothalamus has decided you are too cold, and needs to call in the cavalry). Exercise - that's a bit more nuanced.[hysterically well timed - I just got a message from my GP surgery - "our health & wellbeing coach can help support you to take a more active role in your own health through diet, exercise or other lifestyle changes". I'm going to book an appointment to see what they make of me...]</blockquote>

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