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Why You’re Still Hungry After Eating

Name: Why You’re Still Hungry After Eating
Uploaded: 2025-10-01T12:01:08+00:00
Duration: 42 s
Channel: Jenn Simmons, MD
Description: A short transcript excerpt from a YouTube video by Jenn Simmons, MD explaining that visceral belly fat acts like an active organ (compared to a tumor)…

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A short transcript excerpt from a YouTube video by Jenn Simmons, MD explaining that visceral belly fat acts like an active organ (compared to a tumor), causing metabolic dysfunction where ingested calories are preferentially shunted to fat tissue. This can deprive muscle and brain of energy signals, leading to continued sensations of hunger despite eating.

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A lot of us are not aware that the belly fat is actually this active organ almost in there. You could think of it like a tumor. And all it wants to do is get fatter and fatter as fast as possible. Now, when you have this belly fat, it creates metabolic dysfunction. So let's say you consume this breakfast that they would say in the dietetics world is healthy. Well, the majority of that breakfast is metabolized into sugar. The majority of those sugar calories goes in to feed the fat mass first. So now your muscle cells aren't getting the energy or those calories like it should. And so the brain doesn't get a signal that it's been fed. So physiologically, you are still starving inside.