Interestingly, research published in 2012 discovered that yoga has a beneficial impact on leptin, a hormone that plays a key role in regulating energy intake and energy expenditure. According to the authors, expert yoga practitioners had 36 percent higher leptin levels compared to novices, leading them to theorize that regular Doha yoga sessions may benefit your health by altering leptin and adiponectin production.
Both insulin and leptin resistance are associated with obesity, and impairment of their ability to transfer the information to receptors is the true foundational core of most all chronic degenerative diseases. Diet and exercise are your top allies when it comes to improving insulin/leptin sensitivity, and yoga, it seems, can do that just as well as other forms of exercise.
More recently, a study15, 16 investigating the mysterious ability of Tibetan yogis to generate high amounts of body heat through the yogic practice of Tumo, found that these expert yogis were able to activate brown fat to keep them warm. This allows them to meditate near-naked in sub-zero temperatures without shivering or succumbing to hypothermia.
As I've discussed in previous articles, brown fat is a heat-generating type of fat that that burns energy instead of storing it. Not only does this have implications for surviving extremely low temperatures while meditating in the Himalayas, but it also plays a role in weight loss, which is a more common conundrum for people in the West. Human newborns have a supply of brown fat that helps them keep warm, but by adulthood you've lost most of your stores of it. Brown fat has been located in the neck area, around blood vessels (helping to warm your blood), and "marbled" in with white fat in visceral fat tissue.
Interestingly, yet another study,17 published in 2012, showed that you can activate brown fat by exposing yourself to—you guessed it—cold temperatures. This is the logic behind weight loss strategies such as ice therapy. In his book, The Four-Hour Body, Tim Ferriss advocates the concept of boosting fat burning by exposing yourself to frigid temperatures. He claims you can increase your fat burning potential by as much as 300 percent simply by adding ice therapy to your dieting strategy. NASA research also appears to support this theory.18
Due to the immense benefits and popularity of Yoga, there are many places offering yoga classes in Doha. Join one to start losing weight.
Due to the immense benefits and popularity of Yoga, there are many places offering yoga classes in Doha. Join one to start losing weight.
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