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Fat inside your belly sends out harmful signals that make your body bad at using sugar and mess up how your organs work.

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Evidence from Studies

Supporting (1)

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Tesamorelin improves fat quality independent of changes in fat quantity

Randomized Controlled Trial
Human

The study found that a drug made belly fat healthier by making the fat cells smaller and less inflamed, which supports the idea that bad belly fat causes metabolic problems like insulin resistance.

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The effects of tesamorelin on phosphocreatine recovery in obese subjects with reduced GH.

Randomized Controlled Trial
Human
2014 Jan

This study looked at how a drug improved energy production in muscles of obese people, but it didn’t check fat tissue or inflammation, so it doesn’t tell us whether belly fat causes insulin problems like the claim says.

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