Cold exposure increases fat burning effectively when it is used to intentionally trigger a shivering response.

“The paper published in nature shows that it is shivering itself that causes the brown fat to increase your burning, your burn rate and your metabolism. And it works like this, when you get into cold and you shiver, the shivering that low level movement of the muscle, those small movements triggers t”

Mild cold stress can be used as a practical tool for health and metabolic optimization, specifically by shifting the body toward fat burning.

“mild cold stress, naturally tends to lower RQ, meaning shifting towards fat.”