Publications by authors named "Taylor Lentz"
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- Scientists studied how men and women feel different temperatures to see if women really are colder than men.
- They found that women can feel cold at a lower temperature (about 21.9 °C) than men (about 22.9 °C) because women usually have more body fat for insulation.
- However, both men and women reacted similarly in other ways to cold, showing that body size and composition are the main reasons for feeling different temperatures, not just being a boy or a girl.
An appealing strategy for treatment of metabolic disease in humans is activation of brown adipose tissue (BAT), a thermogenic organ best visualized through F-FDG PET/CT. BAT has been activated to varying degrees by mild cold exposure. However, this approach can cause undesirable stress, and there remains no consensus protocol.
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