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https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3895006/

Looking for more references to this, specifically along this line: Babies have an active gene expression that allows burning fat for staying warm. Sometime later the gene switches off, after early childhood, but it can be switched back on in adulthood with regular cold exposure.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3895006/ Looking for more references to this, specifically along this line: Babies have an active gene expression that allows burning fat for staying warm. Sometime later the gene switches off, after early childhood, but it can be switched back on in adulthood with regular cold exposure.

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Huh. Interesting. I can't help because I haven't come across that before, but that's interesting. I've lived in tons of places - Burlington, VT being the coldest and Tempe, AZ being the hottest. I know it doesn't take too long for me to adapt. I was wearing shorts and T-shirts in Burlington if it was 50F without much issue. Now that I've been in AZ a bit, I have to put on a sweatshirt when it's under 65F. I've heard blood also changes viscosity based on temperature you adapt to, as well, but I didn't get my blood drawn enough in VT to be able to give anything anecdotal to that.