Debate rages at Kale & Cocoa about supplements – shouldn’t we get all our nutritional needs from a good diet? What to take – and how much? I am broadly pro-supplementation, Annabel less so. I’ve made a CoQ10 supplement part of my ‘age well’ routine and Annabel asked me why. Co-enzyme Q10 isn’t a vitamin,…
WHY YOU NEED TO DO MORE EXERCISE & GLAZED AUBERGINE CHIPS
I’ll confess right away: my life has become increasingly sedentary. The life of most writers is a sedentary one. I walk every day, regularly clocking up between 10 and 20,000 steps. But this, it turns out, is not enough. According to recent research from America’s Brigham Young University I might as well be slouching in…
WHY YOU NEED TO NURTURE YOUR LOVED ONES: ONE-POT COD WITH RED VEGETABLES
Yesterday I visited a friend whose Easter was spent battling for the life of her son. Not in a sophisticated London hospital but on a remote African island. Her twelve-year old son’s appendix burst somewhere between Madagascar and a tiny island, reachable only by a three hour choppy boat ride. The island had no hospital,…
WHY DO WE KNOW SO LITTLE ABOUT THE MENOPAUSE?
It’s a question I’ve heard a lot recently – from Kirsty Wark in her excellent documentary The Menopause and Me, and from my school friends when we shared our experiences of hitting 50. Every woman goes through it, yet we talk so little about it. Kirsty Wark bravely tackles it head on – her film is…
WHY CLEAN AIR MATTERS – VEGETABLE & NETTLE SOUP
Mad dogs in Mexico City were the first sign that inhaling polluted air might cause brain damage. Neuroscientist Lilian Calderón-Garcidueñas, noticed that elderly dogs living in heavily polluted areas often became confused, disoriented and unable to recognize their owners. She examined their brains (after they died, of course) and found greater quantities of amyloid b (the…
HOW TO BE CALM – SMOKED MACKEREL BRUSCHETTA
I wrote recently about gratitude, after fracturing my skull and realising how lucky I was to be alive. But as I convalesced, other less positive thoughts also swam around my head. In particular, I began thinking about people who live with fear. Why? Because I too had suddenly become fearful: What caused my collapse? Would…
IS DEMENTIA HEREDITARY?
Having cared for my mum through a 12-year battle with dementia, and watched her care for her mum for many years, it’s a question I’ve often asked myself. It came to me again a few weeks ago when it was reported that David Cassidy (remember him from The Partridge Family?) is suffering from the condition,…
GRATITUDE – THE HOTTEST AREA OF NEUROSCIENCE?
Every now and then I’m made aware of what a huge privilege it is to be alive. However, like most of us, I spend the bulk of my time caught up in the hum drum of daily life. But not anymore. Two weeks’ ago, on my way home from London Book Fair, I collapsed in…
CARING, DEMENTIA AND TOMATO SOUP
A couple of weeks ago, a report came out claiming those who lived near busy roads had a higher risk of dementia. Both Susan and I live near a very busy road, so our thoughts turned, once again, to dementia – and to how we look after dementia sufferers. Back in November, I wrote a…
HEALTHY EATING CHINESE-STYLE, AND BEST-EVER TOFU STIR FRY!
Did you celebrate Chinese New Year this weekend? It ushered in the year of the Rooster which means a busy year ahead, apparently (much like any other year for many of us in the ‘sandwich’ generation…) We celebrated with some delicious food: luckily our local Chinese restaurant has a good meat/fish-free selection on the menu…
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![Want to age well? You need to activate your brown fat…
Medically known as Brown Adipose Tissue (BAT), brown fat stores energy, burns calories, regulates blood sugar and insulin levels. It may do many other magically life-enhancing things, such as protecting against obesity, heart disease, cancer, T2 diabetes and Alzheimer’s.
At its simplest, Brown Fat exists to produce heat – and so keep us alive.
Which is why cold is the very best activator of Brown Fat.
Here are a few tips on how to increase your own Brown Fat supplies:
- [ ] Go for a regular wild swim
- [ ] Take a cold shower or ice bath. The Cleveland Clinic suggests twice a week.
- [ ] Go for a walk and expose your neck to the air for a few minutes. Brown Fat collects around the neck, shoulders and chest.
- [ ] Turn the thermostat down every now and then. You want to be feeling a little cool, not violently shivering.
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