Brown Fat burning through both fats and sugars to keep you warm and metabolically healthy. Image Credit: Turku PET Centre.

A Switch That Burns Fat Has Been Discovered.

But you don’t have to volunteer for a drug trial to get it working for you today.

The world is in the grip of an obesity epidemic. Since 2016, it’s accurate to state that most people are now overweight. Obesity, a chronic inflammatory state, is a major factor in the genesis of some of the most common and serious diseases that affect almost every household within developed countries; cardiovascular disease, diabetes type 2, dementia and some cancers. In 2017, 8% of all deaths globally were directly attributable to obesity.

However you look at it, the outlook is bleak. One school of thought says obesity and its related diseases will bankrupt our health services, but another says that because obese people die so much younger, the cost balances out. The sad thing about this is that it’s preventable with diet and lifestyle changes, but many people cannot engage the alterations to turn their own health around and potentially save their lives and the quality of it.

For this reason, pharmaceutical companies are falling over themselves to develop new drugs that people can purchase regularly and take passively to reverse their metabolic dysfunction, the gateway to so many other diseases.