Burning Questions in Metabolism

Brown fat is a tissue in our bodies that has a rare ability to burn calories, just to make heat. But how much power does it really have?
That turns out to be harder to measure than you might think. In this talk, we will look into how we can directly measure heat production and compare it with what’s reported in the literature.
Spoiler alert: they don’t always match.
Along the way, we will discuss how this mismatch occurs, and why quantifying brown fat's true thermal power is trickier than it sounds.
Expect a bit of nerdiness, a little humor, and a new appreciation for the hottest tissue in your body.

Think your liver is just there to process your beer? Think again. It’s a vital organ doing 500 jobs at once, but it doesn’t work the same way for everyone. Why do men and women face such different risks when it comes to liver disease? In this talk, we will discuss how our biological sex shapes our liver health and how a long history of ‘male-only’ research has left us with a huge gap in medical knowledge. Let’s dive into the science of the liver!