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3 ways to boost your body’s fat-crushing hormone
Back in 2012, Harvard researchers discovered a hormone that can do amazing things for your metabolism and your health. It’s called irisin, and it can help you stay slim, young and healthy… In fact, if you know how to harness its power, it could work like a fat-crushing hormone.
Now, there are a few easy ways to use this hormone for your benefit. But first you need to know why it’s so great…
When you’re body releases irisin, it turns on genes that boost your metabolism into gear to transform white fat into brown fat. If you know anything about brown fat, you know that it’s healthy fat that causes your body to burn calories like nobody’s business. That’s why it’s been linked to quick and easy weight loss. Irisin is also said to help prevent diseases like diabetes, atherosclerosis and cancer.
Of course, not everyone buys the hype when it comes to irisin. A 2015 study published in Scientific Reports suggested that its benefits were more myth than fact. But the scientists who originally discovered this wonder hormone studied it again and proved it really is all it’s cracked up to be.
Now, the latest study on irisin shows that this health-boosting hormone can provide you with one more amazing fat-burning benefit…
Irisin’s fat-burning benefit
Researchers from the University of Florida found that irisin actually stops the development of fatty tissue. More specifically, it stops your body from turning undifferentiated stem cells into fat cells and encourages stem cells to become bone-forming cells. I’d say that’s win-win for your body — less fat and stronger bones.
Now, it’s no secret that the best way to boost irisin levels in your body is through exercise. But some types are more effective than others. And then, of course, there’s one way to produce more of it that doesn’t involve any exercise at all. Here are three scientifically proven ways to get more of your fat-crushing hormone pumping through your body:
- High-intensity exercise. Exercise is the best way to boost irisin levels in your body. But not just any exercise will do. In 2014, a study published in the Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine found that high-intensity exercise increases irisin levels more than low-intensity exercise. Examples of high-intensity exercise include running, high-intensity interval training and cycling.
- Earlier this year, researchers found that rats fed a high-fat diet who swam daily lost weight. Why? Researchers suspect it’s due to irisin.
- Even if you’re not into breaking a sweat or going for a swim, you can still encourage your body to produce more irisin: All you have to do is shiver. In 2014, researchers found that people exposed to cold temperatures experienced an increase in irisin that rivaled that of people who exercised. And it’s all because they shivered. Researchers also found that the more intensely people shivered, the more irisin their body produced. So you may want to turn the air conditioner up in the summer or the heater down in the winter to boost yours.
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“Shivering Triggers Brown Fat to Produce Heat and Burn Calories.” National Institutes of Health. https://www.nih.gov. Retrieved October 3, 2016.