Regularly Wearing a Cooling Vest Might Help You Lose Body Fat, According to a New Study

 

 Then where is THE EXACT PROTOCOL to do that from your doctor? Oh NO, you have a doctor that doesn't know how or won't do that task, right ? Will this get rid of your visceral fat and all the problems that causes?  

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Oh sorry, you DON'T have a functioning stroke doctor that knows anything about this, do you? Well, fire them and request someone competent! Or is your board of directors so incompetent they don't know they have incompetent persons working for them?

Regularly Wearing a Cooling Vest Might Help You Lose Body Fat, According to a New Study

Participants who were overweight or living with obesity wore the accessories for two hours every morning for six weeks and lost an average of two pounds. The researchers suspect showering or swimming in frigid water could have similar effects

Ice baths, frigid showers and cold plunges seem to be all over social media, with people claiming that exposure to chilly water has seemingly endless health benefits.

Proposed gains include boosting the immune system, increasing libido, kickstarting the metabolism, improving circulation and even making new friends, said James Mercer, a biologist at the Arctic University of Norway, to Healthline’s Nancy Schimelpfening in 2023.

Growing scientific evidence hints that some of these supposed benefits are real. Now, preliminary research presented in May at the European Congress on Obesity adds to the conversation after finding that consistent cold exposure via cooling vests might help people lose body fat. The results suggest that the accessories could be an easy weight-loss lifestyle strategy that people could incorporate with traditional approaches like exercising and eating healthy.

“This is one of the first studies looking at the impact of cold exposure over a prolonged period of time, involving people with overweight and obesity,” study co-author Mariëtte Boon, an obesity physician at Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands, said at the conference, reports the Guardian’s Anna Bawden.

The study involved 47 adults who were overweight or living with obesity in the Netherlands. About half of them wore a cooling vest and waist wrap for two hours every morning for six weeks. The cold-exposure participants shed an average of 2 pounds over the experiment period, while those in the control group gained an average of 1.3 pounds, the researchers found.

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Cooling vests are somewhat common. Athletes, construction workers and other people wear them. Con Chronis / Getty Images

How does this happen? Study co-author Helen Budge, a biologist at the University of Nottingham School of Medicine in England, explained that “daily cold exposure activates brown fat, which uses body fat stores to produce heat,” per the Guardian.

“It is possible that wearing a cooling vest trains brown fat to be more active and has a healthy effect on lipids, glucose and inflammation in the body. All those things are preventative in cardiovascular disease,” she added.

Analysis revealed that much of the weight loss in the cold-exposure group compared with the control group did come from a reduction in body fat, and lean mass—made of components like muscle and bone—remained relatively unchanged. That’s important because dropping pounds often comes with muscle loss.

Cold vests are probably a more practical at-home approach than having to find a corner for a bathtub full of ice water. Budge said that the clothing is not uncomfortable, and that people in the construction industry already make use of them to keep cool, reports the London Times’ Eleanor Hayward.