Dr. Jeffrey GladdenFounder & CEO of Gladden Longevity

Weight Composition: Key to Health 🏋️

22 Feb 2026 · 1 min

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In this excerpt, Dr. Jeffrey Gladden argues that body weight composition—specifically the amount of fat stored in visible areas like the belly and hidden areas such as the liver—should be used as a primary metric for assessing health and predicting longevity. He emphasizes that even modest amounts of visceral or liver fat can have significant health implications, regardless of outward appearance. Dr. Gladden also references his recently published book, positioning it as his best effort to reshape the national conversation around health by focusing on weight composition rather than weight alone. The overarching message is a call to shift public and medical perspectives to prioritize weight health as a cornerstone of long‑term wellbeing.

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And so what we also need to do is we do need to learn into weight composition as a key performance indicator of health. So if whether it's 5 pounds on somebody's belly or 50 pounds on someone's belly, you know, or 5 pounds of liver fat, and we're not even, you know, we don't see it externally on the on the belly. We do need to unpack that and see that that's what's going on, you know, for their body. But we need to stop. Like, this is just the know, I wrote the book. I'm like, this is my best shot at literally changing the way the country looks at our health. And it and longevity is really rooted in weight health, whatever your size is, you know, on on that part. Yeah.