I touched on this with the “Dad Bod,” but it deserves its own focus. Visceral fat is the single most dangerous tissue in the male body. You can be “skinny fat”—look thin in clothes but have a soft belly—and still be at high risk.
This fat accumulates due to stress (cortisol) and sugar (insulin). It squeezes your organs and disrupts your internal systems. It is linked directly to colon cancer, sleep apnea, and high blood pressure.
You need to stop eating like a child. The Standard American Diet is designed to make you fat and sick. It is full of seed oils, high-fructose corn syrup, and refined grains that spike your insulin and lock your body into fat-storage mode.
To strip visceral fat, you need to be aggressive. Intermittent fasting, low-carb diets, and high-intensity interval training (HIIT) are tools you must use. You are not losing weight to “look better”; you are losing weight to evict a parasite that is slowly shutting down your organs.