Mother's milk kick-starts liver to produce molecule that turns on heat-generating brown fat

Wednesday, March 3, 2010 - 13:28 in Health & Medicine

In newborn mice, at least, mother's milk appears to have some rather immediate and potentially far-reaching metabolic consequences. The milk intake kick-starts the liver to produce a molecule that then turns on heat-generating brown fat.

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