JJ Virgin explains why visceral fat matters more than overall weight and shares five ways to burn it: stay hydrated, cut fructose, manage stress to lower cortisol and insulin, do HIIT workouts, and use cold exposure to convert white fat.
I like to say it's not what you weigh, it's what that weight is made up of. And same with body fat. It's not the body fat, it's where the fat is. Visceral fat. There's a couple things that actually really help with visceral fat. Number one, make sure you stay well hydrated, lower your fructose intake, and make sure that your cortisol and insulin are doing well because stress causes more belly fat. Next thing is high-intensity interval training has been shown to help us burn off visceral adipose tissue. And cold exposure, it really helps with beiging your white fat. Fat and getting rid of some of that visceral adipose tissue. So that can be super helpful there.
