"Adaptive thermogenesis" refers to the body's ability to regulate and adjust its energy expenditure (calories burned) in response to changes in the environment or diet. It helps maintain a steady metabolism and body temperature by increasing or decreasing energy usage.
Full definition
Long - term persistence
of adaptive thermogenesis in subjects who have maintained a reduced body weight by Dr. Rosenbaum et al..
Consequently, your body metabolism (amount of energy burnt at rest) slows to prevent you continuing to lose weight — a process known
as adaptive thermogenesis.
The research
on adaptive thermogenesis shows the average decline in metabolic rate as a result of dieting and losing weight is about 300 calories per day.
Factors that were associated
with adaptive thermogenesis included reduced insulin levels, heart rate, kidney function and body fluid balance.
Professor Byrne said while researchers in the past had shown that as dieting continued weight loss became more difficult, this latest MATADOR (
Minimising Adaptive Thermogenesis And Deactivating Obesity Rebound) study looked more closely at ways to lessen the famine response and improve weight loss success.
They wanted to find out how body composition
affects adaptive thermogenesis, whether it causes changes in hormones, and what effect it has on weight regain.
Dulloo AG, Jacquet J, Montani J - P, Schutz
Y. Adaptive thermogenesis in human body weight regulation: more of a concept than a measurable entity?
Tremblay A, Royer M - M, Chaput J - P, Doucet
E. Adaptive thermogenesis can make a difference in the ability of obese individuals to lose body weight.
I need help about a question: what strategies are effective for
breaking adaptive thermogenesis (plateau) which produces the plateau in weight reduction with low - carb diets?
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Adaptive thermogenesis refers to underfeeding - associated fall in resting and non-resting TDEE; this is independent of body weight and body composition» [3].
This process is referred to
as adaptive thermogenesis and as the name implies, the metabolism has adapted to the lower energy requirements of your new lighter, leaner self.
«When we reduce our energy (food) intake during dieting, resting metabolism decreases to a greater extent than expected; a phenomenon termed «
adaptive thermogenesis» — making weight loss harder to achieve,» Professor Byrne said.
Can regulate key mitochondrial genes that contribute to the program of
adaptive thermogenesis.
Weight loss, weight maintenance, and
adaptive thermogenesis.
Eating too little also causes a starvation response (
adaptive thermogenesis) where metabolic rate can decrease above and beyond what can be accounted for from the change in body mass (# 2 above).
There is a BIG myth about starvation mode (
adaptive thermogenesis) that implies that if you don't eat enough, your metabolism will slow down so much that you stop losing weight.
3) Metabolism decreases due to
adaptive thermogenesis.
As soon as the body feels the freeze, a fat burning process called «
adaptive thermogenesis» begins where your body cranks up the temperature to keep itself warm.
Recent studies have shown colder water is that effective in creating «
adaptive thermogenesis» that it may even be used a therapeutic treatment of obesity [1].
By cutting calories, you expend less energy, chiefly because you move less — this is referred to as
adaptive thermogenesis.
Adaptive thermogenesis was partially explained by reductions in heart rate and kidney function, and increased formation of glucose in the liver.
In early calorie restriction,
adaptive thermogenesis is also associated with a drop in insulin levels.
Adaptive thermogenesis is modest and kicks in during the early stages of starvation, shortly after calorie restriction starts.
In general,
adaptive thermogenesis (AT) is considered to be an automatic response to food shortage.
German researchers set out to investigate the causes and dynamics of
adaptive thermogenesis (starvation mode).
Adaptive thermogenesis was not associated with changes in sympathetic nervous system activity, total body fat, belly fat, liver fat, organ mass, nitrogen and sodium balances.
Of these 108 calories per day, 36 were explained by changes in the composition of fat - free mass, leaving 72 calories for «true»
adaptive thermogenesis.
Adaptive thermogenesis is seen when people continuously restrict calories by dieting and / or exercising.
In short,
adaptive thermogenesis (AT) is one of the main reasons your body starts burning fewer calories when you lose weight.
Adaptive thermogenesis was detected in 60 % of participants in the early stages of calorie restriction.
Major GC, Doucet E, Trayhurn P, Astrup A, Tremblay A. Clinical significance of
adaptive thermogenesis.
Influence of changes in body composition and
adaptive thermogenesis on the difference between measured and predicted weight loss in obese women.
Here is an example of
adaptive thermogenesis.
Stefan GJA et al. «Weight loss, weight maintenance, and
adaptive thermogenesis.»
For example, your metabolic rate does slow down when you're losing weight (due to a combination of
adaptive thermogenesis and the fact that you weigh less than you used to).