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Sure. A new hormone has been sort of discovered in mice- called irisin. Its thought that when exposed to cold they upregulate this hormone and it drives the upregulation of the genes involved in fatty acid metabolism in 'brown' adipose- the kind that infants and animals that can't shiver- have, to be expressed in white adipose- which is adult fat storage, forming an intermediary 'beige' adipose, which uses the fat stored.
This has been shown in mice currently
There's a couple of other mechanisms at work, involving thyroid hormones, and potential metabolic rate depression, but we'll find out as more work is done on it- and loads will be as that pill that could eradicate fat will be worth millions.