{"id":212274,"date":"2025-04-24T01:20:28","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T06:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/think-cold-burn-fat-how-your-brains-memories-help-you-lose-weight"},"modified":"2025-04-24T01:20:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T06:20:28","slug":"think-cold-burn-fat-how-your-brains-memories-help-you-lose-weight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/think-cold-burn-fat-how-your-brains-memories-help-you-lose-weight","title":{"rendered":"Think Cold, Burn Fat: How Your Brain\u2019s Memories Help You Lose Weight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/think-cold-burn-fat-how-your-brains-memories-help-you-lose-weight.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a groundbreaking study, scientists discovered that the brain forms \u201ccold memories\u201d which can later trigger increased metabolism even without a drop in temperature.<\/p>\n<p>By training mice to associate specific visual cues with cold environments, the researchers showed that the animals began heating themselves in anticipation of cold, driven by brain-stored memories. They pinpointed these cold memories to engram cells in the hippocampus and demonstrated that stimulating these cells could artificially activate thermogenesis. This exciting work opens up potential therapeutic strategies for conditions like obesity and cancer by harnessing learned thermal regulation and highlights the deep connections between memory, behavior, and metabolism.<\/p>\n<p>Brain Forms \u201cCold Memories\u201d That Influence Metabolism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a groundbreaking study, scientists discovered that the brain forms \u201ccold memories\u201d which can later trigger increased metabolism even without a drop in temperature. By training mice to associate specific visual cues with cold environments, the researchers showed that the animals began heating themselves in anticipation of cold, driven by brain-stored memories. They pinpointed these [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}