Turning White Fat into Good Fat

Not all fat is bad for you. Unlike white fat, which stores energy and unwanted pounds, brown fat dissipates that same energy into heat when we’re cold. Claudio Villanueva, Ph.D. assistant professor in biochemistry and investigator at the Center for Diabetes and Metabolism at the University of Utah, talks about his research investigating how to convert white fat into good, brown fat. Doing so could be the first step toward developing novel therapeutics to combat obesity.