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Everyone wants to lose the part on the belly. Is there not like an exercise I can do just to burn the part on the
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belly? There's no exercise. Visceral fat's a little bit different. It's like a whole
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different organ. Subcutaneous fat is a storage facility. It is when we overeat calories, we will drive fat under the
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skin and it's kind of genetically determined. Females tend to gain about their hips and thighs. Okay. And
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actually that hip and thigh fat is protective for cardiovascular disease in a premenopausal woman. Not in men but in
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women. But when that fat shifts to the intraabdominal cavity, that fat is much more metabolically active than the fat
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under our skin and it creates these pro-inflammatory cytoines. And then you end up in this negative feedback cycle.
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Your liver starts becoming dysfunctional. Insulin resistance increases that drives more fat to the
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visceral cavity, increases inflammation, and it just goes on and on and on. That fat that's really inside the
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abdominal cavity is what we're talking about. That visceral fat, which is the worst kind.
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But what about liposuction? Can't I just suck it out? People are doing all kinds
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with their stuff. Under the skin, not in your gut. The stuff under the skin. Oh,
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lipos suction it out. Is that a good idea or a bad idea? No, it'll come back. You have to create
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change in order to you have to instigate change within your environment and your
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lifestyle. If you get liposuction and you change nothing else, that fat will come right
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back. All these things we're talking about, it sounds like a lot of instructions and it is actually, but
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when you layer them on, it becomes your lifestyle. It's not a diet. It's not an exercise program. It's just how I live.