You Have a Dangerous Amount of Fat If You Answer Yes to All 6 Questions
In a Nutshell
Visceral fat is detectable without scans or bloodwork through six self-tests: a belly that protrudes upward when lying down, sagging skin after initial loss, inability to draw in the abdomen on all fours, unexplained afternoon fatigue, constant cravings, and twisted or spider veins. These signs indicate internal fat that drives inflammation, insulin spikes, mitochondrial damage, and visible aging even when external weight looks normal (TOFI). Reversing it requires eliminating processed carbs to break the insulin–craving cycle, allowing visceral fat to burn off faster than scale weight suggests.
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Your doctor said your blood work looks fine. So why are you still tired by two in the afternoon? Maybe you're not sleeping. You're still carrying extra weight. Or your face is inflamed and getting less attractive. Dr. Sha Omera spent 7 years skinning over 6,000 people on MRI for the National Science Foundation. The doctor will ask six questions that show you the fat your doctor never looks for. No scale and no blood work needed. You can answer all six right where you're sitting. By the last one, you'll know whether it's real possibility for you.
Lie down and look. Does your belly when you lay on your back stick straight up like Mount Fuji or does it fall flat to the sides? If your abdomen is standing straight up, you've got visceral fat in there. If it falls completely to the side, you probably have an abundance of external subcutaneous fat, but you probably have a combination of both and that becomes a little bit more problematic. The worst condition is a belly that sticks up where you look like you got a dad bod laying down on your back. If it's not completely flat, you can be assured when it's sticking up that you've got an excess amount of visceral fat.
You can measure this. Grab a ruler, put it next to your abdomen on the side, and measure how much it's sticking up. You can track it by that ruler, how far it starts to drop.
Take a look at whether your abdomen is sagging. You want it flat, which is what a very healthy human being has. Typically, you'll see this like in a 14-year-old, a very flat abdomen. It doesn't sag down. Somebody that's had the influence of visceral fat gets rid of their visceral fat, so it's not pushing up, but they haven't recovered yet from the influence. Their abdomen will sag down, like in this photograph. That sagging down means you got the influence of visceral fat and you haven't yet recovered from it. This is still disease because it amounts to sarcopenia, loss of tone of your abdomen. People go through this particular stage as they get rid of visceral fat, but you need to be aware of it.
Get down on all fours, your hands and your knees, and you want to track what's going on with your abdomen. You got a little dad's bot or little mom's bot, little mommy tummy, and you think it's just your babies. It's your visceral fat. You guys think you're so cool walking around with your big belly, your dad bot, even if it's small, it's disease as well from visceral fat. You want to be able to test to see basically it's like doing a vacuum pose on your force and you want to see how far your ability to draw up your abdomen in there.
Another aspect to this what's going on besides visceral fat is you got fat depositing within your musculature specifically your abdominus rectus.
People keep telling you you look fine you're clothes fit but you don't feel right. You know something is off, but you're not really a fat guy or a fat girl. You can be thin on the outside, invisibly obese on the inside. It's called TOFI. Thin outside, fat inside. You've got visceral fat inside of you. You need to know whether you're a TOFI by getting an MRI. It ends the lie and it shows you you're not as healthy as you think.
Here's another little test that you can do. The mirror is failing you, but something else will tell you that things are off. When you walk down the mall and people are walking past you, they no longer look at you like they used to when you were younger, unless people are staring right at you because you have somehow managed to keep the visceral fat away. People are attracted to health and visceral fat influence cause you to lose your attractiveness. Even if your clothes still fit and even if the mirror is lying to you.
Are you wiped out by 2 or 3 in the afternoon, even after a full night's sleep? That's why visceral fat is the problem. It's active tissue pumping out inflammatory substances destroying your energy levels destroying your mitochondria and your capacity for generating fuel ATP because of the influence of visceral fat.
Are you struggling through your day with always having cravings? Always having to snack, always having to have a little bit. That's because of the influence of visceral fat on your metabolism. Visceral's fat inflammatory effect destroying your ability to generate through gluconeogenesis the supply of energy you need to feel normal and live normal is causing these symptoms. Constant snacking keeps your insulin up all day long and insulin is the hormone that stores fat in the form of visceral fat disease.
The cravings themselves are also a signal and it goes like this. You get cravings, you graze, you spike your insulin, you store more visceral fat and then you end up craving more. Round and round it goes and sustain like that every day until you finally get off the carb cycle. You just keep staying on carbohydrates all your life. You'll keep that way. Get off the carbs, get off processed foods, eat fat and protein, diminish the cravings, the microbes die and your visceral fat starts falling away.
Look at your veins. Your large veins should be smooth and prominent on your arms, not twisty, bending, tortuous. That's from carbohydrates that you get that spiking blood sugars, elevated insulin, elevated visceral fat, causing disease in your beautiful veins.
The other veins you need to pay attention are the small ones. They're usually on the medial aspect, middle inside of your ankles. They're called telangiectasias, spider veins. But for women, they're mostly on their legs and on your inner thighs. For males, they're on your foreskin, and they signal to both males and females, you're unhealthy, you're diseased. The cytokines, inflammatory molecules being produced by that visceral fat are destroying those spider veins, those vessels in your skin, and they become dark, purple, and raised. They look gross because they're diseased. But as you get rid of visceral fat, they go away.
See how many of those questions do you really have those symptoms? Because the more you have, the more likely it is that you have visceral fat and the influence of visceral fat. Sometimes the visceral fat forms and you don't get those symptoms, but eventually you will. The only way to see it is to get an MRI. It will show you the visceral fat disease forming inside your abdomen, the fatty disease forming around your heart and filling your muscles.
None of these things talked about are something you should panic over. You just need to realize it's visceral fat forming inside of you. What I'm talking about isn't weight loss. I'm talking about its disease you need to reverse. So now you know how to spot it. Getting rid of it is the part that matters. And it burns off quicker than you'd believe once you stop feeding it and start attacking it.
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