ArticleJournal of physiological anthropology2022
Brown adipose tissue thermogenesis among a small sample of reindeer herders from sub-Arctic Finland.
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- Effect of habitual cold exposure on brown adipose tissue activity in Arctic adults: a systematic review.International journal of circumpolar health · 2025Pooled it
- Burning fast & slow: a review of the differential metabolic routes of brown adipose tissue activity during cold exposure and their implications for populational variation.Lipids in health and disease · 2025Review
- Neandertal Cold Adaptation: Technological, Anatomical, and Physiological Responses to Cold Stress in One of Our Closest Fossil Relatives.American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council · 2025Article
- Human dispersal into East Eurasia: ancient genome insights and the need for research on physiological adaptations.Journal of physiological anthropology · 2025Review
- Precision nutrition across climates: decoding diet, tradition, and genomic adaptations from South Asia to the Arctic.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Review
- Indication of mixed glucose and fatty acid use by inferred brown adipose tissue activity in Samoans.American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council · 2024Article
- When the cold gets under your skin: Evidence for brown adipose tissue activity in Samoan adults.American journal of biological anthropology · 2024Article
- To the extreme! How biological anthropology can inform exercise physiology in extreme environments.Comparative biochemistry and physiology. Part A, Molecular & integrative physiology · 2023Review
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- High daily energy expenditure of Tuvan nomadic pastoralists living in an extreme cold environment.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Biocultural intersections: stressors, adaptability, allostasis, frailty, and aging.Journal of physiological anthropology · 2022Article
- Commentary-fat but fit…and cold? Potential evolutionary and environmental drivers of metabolically healthy obesity.Evolution, medicine, and public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
introductionInterest in human physiological responses to cold stress have seen a resurgence in recent years with a focus on brown adipose tissue (BAT), a mitochondria dense fat specialized for heat production. However, a majority of the work examining BAT has been conducted among temperate climate populations.
methodsTo expand our understanding of BAT thermogenesis in a cold climate population, we measured, using indirect calorimetry and thermal imaging, metabolic rate and body surface temperatures of BAT-positive and BAT-negative regions at room temperature, and mild cold exposure of resting participants from a small sample of reindeer herders (N = 22, 6 females) from sub-Arctic Finland.
resultsWe found that most herders experienced a significant mean 8.7% increase in metabolic rates, preferentially metabolized fatty acids, and maintained relatively warmer body surface temperatures at the supraclavicular region (known BAT location) compared to the sternum, which has no associated BAT. These results indicate that the herders in this sample exhibit active BAT thermogenesis in response to mild cold exposure.
conclusionsThis study adds to the rapidly growing body of work looking at the physiological and thermoregulatory significance of BAT and the important role it may play among cold stressed populations.
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