Please come join our growing group of science lovers at Wilkinson Public Library this coming Thursday at 6pm. This week's reading from Nature is about human physiology, specifically a newly discovered hormone named 'Irisin' which helps us burn fat when we exercise. A big deal in adipose tissue research these days involves white fat vs. brown fat, and we will be discussing lots of background for the paper.Here is a quote from Science in regards to the paper:
"The effects of exercise are systemic and seemingly cannot be explained solely by the expenditure of calories in muscle. A recent study by Bostrom, et al describes a mechanism that may elucidate how total body energy expenditure is increased by exercising muscle" -- Daniel P. Kelly
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