Visceral fat is not just stored energy; it’s active tissue that releases harmful substances called cytokines, which make insulin resistance worse and mess up how organs use fuel, acting like a leaky power plant inside the body.
Scientific Claim
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.
Original Statement
“So this problem that people are fighting without realizing it's visceral fat because visceral fat isn't stored energy. It's metabolically active tissue. It's not like regular fat. So it releases cytoines. It worsens insulin resistance and it directly interferes with how your liver, your muscles, your brain and everything respond to the fuel that you eat. So when it comes to this peptide, we really are seeing promising stuff with visceral fat. Visceral fat's sort of like a power plant in the middle of your metabolism that's leaking. So even if the outside looks fine, it's constantly disrupting the system from the inside by leaking these cytoines.”
Context Details
Domain
general-health
Population
human
Subject
visceral fat
Action
releases
Target
cytokines that impair insulin sensitivity and metabolic signaling
Intervention Details
Evidence from Studies
Supporting (2)
Diet-induced fasting ghrelin elevation reflects the recovery of insulin sensitivity and visceral adiposity regression.
The study found that diet-induced changes in ghrelin levels reflect improvements in insulin sensitivity and reductions in visceral fat.
More than skin-deep: visceral fat is strongly associated with disease activity, function and metabolic indices in psoriatic disease
The study found that patients with psoriatic disease have excessive visceral fat, which correlates with disease activity and metabolic problems.
Contradicting (2)
Effect of exercise training on insulin sensitivity, hyperinsulinemia and ectopic fat in black South African women: a randomized controlled trial.
The study found that exercise improved insulin sensitivity without changing ectopic fat in black South African women.
Visceral fat resection in humans: Effect on insulin sensitivity, beta‐cell function, adipokines, and inflammatory markers
The study investigated the effects of removing visceral fat on metabolic health, but the results are not clear-cut.