Chronic inflammation triggers a cycle where your body stores more belly fat and struggles to burn it. Inflammation impairs fat breakdown and worsens insulin resistance, which then amplifies inflammation further, locking you into accumulating more abdominal fat.
Chronic inflammation is another driver of that fat. So when you have ongoing inflammation in your body, and here's the challenge, more fat, more inflammation, more inflammation, more fat. But when you have more inflammation, it's harder for your body to do a good balance, strike a good balance between storing fat and breaking it down. This can actually cause more fat cells to grow in your abdominal area. Plus inflammation makes it hard for your body to use stored fat for energy. Guess what that means? Even more fat accumulating around your waist. Now, when there's too much inflammation and too much belly fat, it can make it even harder for your body to then use insulin properly. So you can see how this whole thing becomes a super vicious cycle with inflammation and insulin resistance keep adding more fat here.
