The fat stored around your internal organs is like a factory that constantly pumps out inflammatory chemicals. These chemicals cause widespread inflammation in your body, make your cells age faster, damage your heart and blood vessels, and even weaken your body's ability to fight cancer cells.

Visceral fat is metabolically active tissue that releases cytokines, which impair insulin sensitivity and disrupt metabolic signaling in the liver, muscles, and brain, leading to systemic metabolic dysfunction.

Visceral adipose tissue is metabolically active and secretes pro-inflammatory cytokines that impair insulin signaling in liver, muscle, and brain tissues.