Quote of the Day
Rutgers Health researchers have made discoveries about brown fat that could pave the way for helping people stay physically fit as they age.
A team from Rutgers New Jersey Medical School found that mice lacking a specific gene developed an unusually potent form of brown fat tissue, which extended lifespan and increased exercise capacity by approximately 30%. The team is now working on a drug that could replicate these effects in humans.
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In the meantime, techniques such as deliberate cold exposure can increase brown fat naturally. Studies have found such efforts to produce short-term benefits that range from enhanced immune system function to improved metabolic health, but Vatner said none of the studies have run long enough to find any effect on healthful aging.
He added that most people would prefer to increase brown fat levels by taking pills rather than ice baths and is optimistic about translating the newest finding into an effective medication.
Rutgers University
March 17, 2025
Exercise in a Pill? Brown Fat Discovery May Extend Lifespan and Boost Fitness
Hmmm… I don’t think taxpayers should be subsidizing healthcare. But there doesn’t seem to be a good way out of it at this point. But this gives me an idea.
In order to receive taxpayer subsidized healthcare, I think people should engage in a healthy lifestyle. This would help to minimize their burden on taxpayers. No recreation drugs (this includes tobacco and alcohol). Healthy foods. At least moderate exercise. Wearing seat belts when traveling. Fire extinguishers in your home. Maintaining a healthy weight. No high-risk recreational activities. Etc., etc.
And now, there is another item we can add to the list of requirements!
One of the qualifications for subsidizes should be wearing no more clothes than that needed to prevent frostbite. Of course, this would require repealing all laws against public nudity. I don’t have a problem with that.
The alternative would be verification of their daily ice baths. I don’t have a problem with that either.
There are a lot of people who shouldn’t wear less clothes. This includes me.
Sorry, to much government involved. We should have a society that is rich enough to pay for its own healthcare.
You eat what you want. You do what you want. You pay for the damages.
Also, if one can’t bring oneself to at least wear a loin cloth in public?
Maybe polite society isn’t for you?
Because that’s what clothes are for as much as mitigating weather conditions.
As nudity will always be mentally associated with sexual activity. Or the desire for such. (There is good reasoning behind why God made animal skin clothes for Adam and Eve to wear.)
One only need look at what happens to even modestly dressed western women around a bunch muslims.
It’s also a known quantity that cold increases one’s metabolism. One can burn thousands of calories a day working in cold weather over warm.
And increased metabolism and good diet will keep one much healthier than just about any medicine known to man.
Easy with the modest proposals, there, Johnathan Swift.
LOL
You got me.
I’m not overweight , I just have a rather large reserve of brown fat.
That’s the ticket.
The worst tyranny is the one that is “for your own good”. Usually levied by someone that is more interested in their own power acquisition than they are about your health and well being. And then what about the high likelihood that the basis for their “help” is flawed? Queue up our current SAD (Standard American Diet) or COVID jabs that have all been gross mistakes with huge undesirable ramifications for the citizenry.
The best government is the one that governs least. We got into this mess because we were seduced by “free stuff” offered by politicians masking compulsion as compassion while feathering their own nests. Now that we know that, it seems that we should be more than willing to take a large red pill, let President Trump be the executive of the executive branch of our government and do what we elected him to do because we believed he would do what he said he would. The tentacles of “free stuff” have managed to develop an insidious strangle hold on nearly every aspect of our lives. And, if left unchecked will destroy every vestige of freedom and liberty that we have known.
Got on a bit of a rant there but it is all connected.
What’s with the ice bath? Here in NW Wyoming all you’d have to do is put on just a pair of shorts and step outside.
Right now we’ve got a “gentle breeze” of 30 MPH (and the Foehn effect has raised the temperature from 15°F to 30°F) with a wind chill of around 15°F. Better wear sandals so your feet don’t freeze to the ground, because after just 10 minutes your core temperature is going to start dropping really fast and you’ll wanna get back inside.
I read this while packing up for my last snowmobile excursion of the year. Burritos for the “Hot Dogger” and beer in the backpack cooler. I guess I’m not a candidate for subsidized healthcare.