Fat around your organs makes your liver store more fat and stops your body responding to insulin.
Scientific Claim
Chronic exposure of the liver to visceral adipose-derived free fatty acids and cytokines induces hepatic steatosis, elevates serum triglycerides, increases blood pressure, and promotes systemic insulin resistance.
Original Statement
“Your liver ends up continuously bathed in the inflammatory molecules and fatty acids that visceral fat is releasing. Over time that actually drives fat accumulation in the liver itself. It raises your triglycerides. It pushes your blood pressure up and it creates exactly the hormonal environment where insulin resistance takes hold.”
Evidence from Studies
Supporting (2)
The study found that in very obese people with severe fatty liver, their belly fat isn’t working right — it’s producing harmful signals that make the liver store more fat and the body less able to use insulin, which matches the claim.
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and obesity: Biochemical, metabolic and clinical presentations
This study shows that fat around the organs (visceral fat) releases harmful substances that flood the liver, causing fat buildup, insulin resistance, and other metabolic problems — exactly what the claim says.