Beige fat ‘indispensable’ in protecting the brain from dementia

Beige fat “indispensable” in protecting the brain from dementia
Drs. Alexis Stranahan and coauthor immunologist Dr. Babak Baban. Credit: Michael Holahan, Augusta University

Beige is considered a calming paint color, and scientists have new evidence that beige fat has a similar impact on the brain, bringing down the inflammation associated with the more common white fat and providing protection from dementia.

They have found that beige fat , which are typically intermingled with white fat cells in the subcutaneous fat present on “pear shaped” people, mediate subcutaneous fat’s protection, Dr. Alexis M. Stranahan and her colleagues report in the journal Nature Communications.

Pear-shaped people, whose weight is…

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