☕ Coffee - More Good News! Browning Your Fat

[amwassil]

Coffee’s not the only polyphenol that looks promising:

Dietary polyphenols and their roles in fat browning

[SomeGuy]

Excellent news. Can’t wait for tomorrow morning’s coffee/mocha wake-me-up mug.

[lfod14]

If that’s the case I feel it doesn’t take measuring to know me and you have 0 white fat in our body!

[Wendy198]

Doesn’t the polyphenol article dispute the “plants are toxic” arguments found in many places on this site? They’re not just talking about coffee and tea. It’s all so confusing.

[amwassil]

Short answer: yes.

Longer answer: not necessarily. Some folks react negatively to ingesting even minute quantities of some plants, some plant substances. Many don’t. Also, the article here talks about minute components of some plants that apparently - for at least most people - seem to have at least one beneficial effect: help to convert WAT to BAT and uncouple UCP1 proteins which in turn boost the metabolic rate. Not talking about consuming multi-grams of carbs doing so. But, I agree, if you’ve got sensitivities to eating plant material approach with caution.

Ask your question over here where I started a topic just to discuss polyphenols:

Boost Metabolism - Dietary Interventions That Might Help

I linked this journal previously here: Coffee - More Good News! Browning Your Fat. It deserves its own topic. This is very interesting stuff. An excellent read! I think the whole thing is both interesting and useful. For those who want to take the deep dive, there are 183 citations. But if you just want to skip to the conclusions, go here. There are a couple of technicolour diagrams, followed by Table 1, which is a list of substances and doses.