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Logan Pendergrast, PhD Researcher in Integrative Physiology, Karolinska Institutet

Morning exercise burns more body fat, mouse study shows

Mid-morning workouts may just have slightly more benefit than evening ones. BELL KA PANG/ Shutterstock

When you’ve got a busy schedule, you may try to squeeze exercise in whenever you can. But there’s growing evidence that when you workout can make a difference to its effects. Our latest research shows that body fat reacts to exercise differently depending on the time of day – at least in mice.

Our latest study found that when mice did a single exercise session in the late morning (around three hours after waking up), they burned more adipose tissue (body fat) compared to mice who exercised in the late evening. Along with this, we saw changes in the way adipose tissue genes respond following exercise.

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