Hey guys, you’ve talked about a 40 inch waist or larger typically correlating with health problems. The question I have is: Does the fat stored around the waist CAUSE the health issues or is the waist size just a correlated metric that we can use to predict when other health problems may start to occur? The reason I ask is because I’m 28 years old, 180 pounds with a 38 inch waist but I have extremely unfortunate body fat distribution. I’m well trained (400+ squat, 500+ deadlift) but just about all of my fat goes right to my low back.
The “worse” type of bodyfat to be accumulating is visceral – that is, fat accumulating in and around your organs that results in things like fatty liver disease, for example. That has direct consequences on health. The subcutaneous adipose tissue isn’t necessarily “desirable” either, but is thought to be relatively less “harmful” than visceral adipose tissue. Jordan gives a detailed lecture on all this stuff at our seminar as well.
Awesome, thank you.
My understanding is that visceral fat is a lot easier to lose than subcutaneous fat. I’m fairly sure this is true of interstitial fat in muscles, and iirc it’s also true of intra-abdominal fat. Agree/disagree? (“this is true” in this case, as far as we can tell, given the available evidence.)