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    Drs. Siegel, Samadi on new study

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Good news I hope that my trainer is not watching this segment and I'm sure she is and I'm in trouble here because here's the next topic are you tired of hitting the gym.

Researches claim they have finally created uphill that provides the same benefits -- exercising and you don't have to do the hard work all of my gonna get -- after this.

After -- really.

You're not gonna -- -- after this -- I'm gonna agree where your exercise trainer is going to say this was done out of Harvard with doctor Spiegel that as the lead author.

And the here's the issue that muscle cells have on the outside something he called iris and which is actually a hormone that's magnificent because it helps you convert fat which is going to clog your coronary arteries and give -- risk of stroke and cancer.

White fat gets converted to brown fat.

Brown -- sits there on your neck and it's like a power pack waiting for a cold day for you to needed extra boost.

That's what this bill does but here's where your trainer comes and we can do almost the same thing by exercising.

And we can get even more benefit from exercising we help the happy hormones in our brain by exercising its good if -- reduces our appetite on all about exercise.

This Jamie is for people who can't exercise.

This may be very helpful for people with chronic diseases people that are in wheelchairs people that can't exercise.

It may be something we use in addition to exercise it will never replace -- I canceled one to have.

-- -- -- Let me just say that this hormone is not going to replace any kind of -- because.

It's not going to prevent osteoporosis it's not going to help we -- muscle mass but I think it's a great way of thinking because now we're getting into the biological casket.

And metabolism of how to exercise is going to help our health and -- in which as mark mentioned which is by the way named after -- Greek goddess a virus.

It's helpful by.

Changing that white fat to brown fat you remember -- we talked about how fat around the stomach.

In the past works like an organ it its secrets hormones that are not good for the heart it's not good for diabetes etc.

This may converted back to the -- that's who we're really understanding.

Great tool about this kind of -- exciting stuff -- Iowa.