Researchers from Spain conducted important experiments on mice.

Recently, Spanish scientists have conducted research and found that often the cause of obesity is a malfunction in the work of hormones regulating body temperature and its reaction to cold.

In humans and mice, the genes and receptors that are responsible for the reaction to cold are arranged approximately identically, the researchers report.

Based on the results of the work done, the experts concluded that disturbances in the structure of the TRPM8 gene provoke the development of obesity. Earlier no one suspected such an interaction.

Also, scientists have found another link between overweight and body temperature. In particular, they were interested in how the behavior of rodents would change if they were damaged by the "cold" gene, or rather, by completely removing this part of the DNA.

It was assumed that, having lost sensitivity to temperatures, mice would spend a lot of energy in the cold and overheat in the heat.

However, the absence of the gene for thermoregulation did not affect, and the body temperature differed from the norm by a maximum of 0.7 degrees.

But on the appetite, oddly enough, the interference in the structure of DNA reflected. In the cold, mice developed insomnia, and appetite woke up, which led to weight gain and the development of obesity.

It turned out that in order to keep warm, the body of the experimental people did not expend fat reserves, but the nutrients that came into the body together with the food that had just been eaten.

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