Dietary Fat and a Natural Hormone Can Relieve Metabolic Dysfunction in Mice (IMAGE)

Salk Institute

Dietary Fat and a Natural Hormone Can Relieve Metabolic Dysfunction in Mice

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In young but rapidly aging mice, high-fat diet feeding (right) ramps up heat production and metabolic activity relative to cooler mice fed a normal chow diet (left).

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