#54 - ASK JORGE: ”Why is belly fat so dangerous?” with guest @Dr_Oz

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It is June 12th, 2020. I'm Jorge Cruise, and welcome to The Jorge Cruise Show. This is the show for high-performance living for people who don't have time. And what that simply means is, and this has been my life's work, is to help people lower their waist circumference, otherwise known as belly fat. And on today's show, we're talking about it with the man, the legend, the doctor himself, Dr. Dr. Mehmet Oz, one of my dearest friends for over 10 years. This interview, I believe, is going to help you not only work better, it's not only going to help you reduce pain, improve your memory, you're going to sleep better, but you're going to have a sense of motivation to finally lower that waist circumference. You're going to learn what the right circumference is for your sex. It's different for men, it's different for women. You're going to learn how to measure that. You're going to get motivated because you're going to learn how much belly fat can impact your health, from diabetes to cancer to strokes. It can cause a lot of issues in your health, lowering your energy, everything to libido. You're gonna learn it all today with Dr. Oz and I. So I'm super excited for the show. Our show is brought to you by my website, JorgeCruise.com. I'm super excited to be a part of sponsoring the show because right now we are doing our 2020 survey, and hundreds of you have filled it out, and I'm thrilled for it. We're leaving it up all the month of June because I do this once, once a year, and I really want to find out from you what you want me to cover, not just on the podcasts, on this show, but in my books, on television. I'm on Dr. Oz frequently. Right now we're all on pandemic mode, so a lot of the filming has stopped in LA, New York, everywhere. But regardless, it'll be back soon. And I want to know what you want me to hear. 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When you have too much belly fat, you're more likely to suffer from aches and pains, low energy, memory loss, and poor sleep, which prevents you from performing your best at work, spending true quality time with your loved ones, and simply enjoying life. The good news is that you can cure belly fat and immediately start to work better, reduce pain, improve memory, and sleep better using simple shortcuts I've gathered. Hi, my name is Jorge Cruise, and I'm known as the 8-Minute Life Strategist to the world's busiest celebrities. I've been a fitness, nutrition, and high-performance living strategist for over 25 years, and you may have seen my work with Oprah Winfrey, Khloe Kardashian, President Clinton, Tyra Banks, Dr. Oz, Tony Robbins, or even Steve Harvey. My passion to find the best science-backed fitness shortcuts has allowed me to write over 30 books and become a multiple New York Times bestselling author with over 9 million books in print. And I know I can help you too. 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Hey guys, it's Jorge Cruise and I'm here with my good friend, Dr. Oz. And we're going to talk about belly fat. As you guys know, I'm a big advocate to being aware of what that does to our health and how it can be dangerous to our health. And I thought, who better than talk to the man, the doctor, who really is on the forefront of bringing this awareness originally a couple of years ago with Oprah, right?

It was. I remember taking the organs to the show the first day, right? And we were showing all the different organs. The one that caught a lot of attention, which you wouldn't think would, was this omental fat. Sounds like momentum. Omentum without the M.

And this is part of the belly fat, right?

It is. This fat is not fat you can pinch. If you can pinch it, it's not omentum fat. This fat is very special. It's way inside of you, under the muscles of your belly. So those of you who worry about your fat thighs, that'll cost you a couple days, but that's not what a doctor worries about.

Because not all fat's the same, and that's what I've told people, I'm sure with my clients, and that visceral fat or belly fat.

Yeah.

So tell us why that's so dangerous.

Well, the belly fat was historically a very important important for humans. Our ancestors would feast in times of, when we had food, and they'd store that fat in different places, but especially the belly fat, the visceral fat was important because we had ready access to it. So when famine would hit, we could quickly take that fat, it would go through the portal vein, the big vein that feeds the liver, and it would give the liver nutrients that it needed. But here's the problem. In those days, to go hunting, you spent the whole day. Today, to go hunting, it's like, milk carton out of the way.

Yeah, takes 10 minutes.

5 minutes. So we have so much visceral fat accumulation. It does 3 things. It poisons the liver by shunting chemicals up through the portal vein. That's the big vein, the port, the door.

And why is the liver so important?

Because the liver reconfigures all the chemicals that come into the body and resends them to all parts of the— all the different extremities, outer reaches of the body. So if your liver is making bad cholesterol because it's been poisoned—

heart disease, right?

Heart disease. If the liver is making inflammatory chemicals, then it'll cause issues as well. The liver is so irritated that it won't listen to insulin anymore. You get diabetes.

Diabetes, type 2 diabetes, right?

In fact, Omentum not only does it poison the liver, but it blocks muscle from using sugar and from responding to insulin. So you end up, even though you have normal insulin levels, you become a diabetic. And finally, that Omentum fat, it's so big and bulky in there, Jorge, that it squeezes on your kidneys. And because it squeezes on the kidneys, the kidneys of course regulate your blood pressure, your kidneys misperceive what's going on and they make your blood pressure go up. So guess what? Belly fat gives you high blood pressure, high blood sugar, and high blood cholesterol. Those 3 things together are called metabolic syndrome. Number 1 cause of heart attacks, number 1 cause of strokes, causes impotence, wrinkles. I mean, there's nothing good about this. And a good portion of us, especially as we hit our 4th and 5th decades of life, start to get that extra belly fat. So what's the right amount? So I don't ask people their weight, I don't ask them their BMI.

I love what you do ask about the measurement, right? So tell them, we gotta listen because this is your homework assignment right here, right from the doctor, doctor's orders. Get a tape measure out, right?

Simple to do. You take the tape measure, put it around your belly button, right? So your belly button, just over the hips, right? Measure this.

I can be the model, right?

So let's see if I make the test, guys, right?

Okay, now let's pull tight. Suck it, suck it, suck it, suck it, suck it, suck it, suck it, suck it. Show off. He's 29.5 inches. Now, is that too much, too little? Have a seat. It all depends on your height. Right. Your belly size, that waist circumference, has got to be 1/2 your height. So how tall are you?

Uh, 6'1".

Okay, 6 happens to be my height, so I know the number already. But for everybody else, 6 times 12, right, 12 inches in a foot. 6 times 12 is 72 inches, plus 1 inch is 73 inches, divided in half is 36.5 inches. So if your belly circumference measured 36.5 inches or more, you'd have too much belly fat. You can be a lot less, doesn't hurt you, right? But less the better in many cases. Basis, but you never want to be more than 36.5. And for the women out there, don't trust the belt size of the guy because men over the age of 40 will never buy a new belt size.

Did you hear that, ladies?

Yeah, what they do is they slide the belt.

Right, I got my belts here and it just keeps going down.

Right, and so you can't tell with the belt size anymore. Right. This measuring tape can be life-saving for that reason.

Yeah, yeah.

So, and for ladies, the general rule I believe you say in your books is 32 most women. And a half. If we had to generalize.

Women, in general, 32.5 inches or less is ideal for belly fat. For men, it's 37 inches and less. But again, best way to do it is your height, and that works for kids too. Kids, women, men, same formula, and it works for everybody. And by the way, I didn't make this stuff up. All the things we talk about in the YouBooks are all about things that doctors have found. All we're trying to do is make it a little easier for everyone to appreciate it.

Yeah. So you guys heard it there. Belly fat is dangerous. I mean, without question, it can hurt your life, your life, your quality of your life and the quantity of your life.

It will strip on average more than 15 years off your life if you've got a lot of belly fat. In fact, it's the single most obvious thing we can do that reverses chronic illness in this country. And when we look at longevity issues, now I'm not telling you to do calorie restriction, which means eating about 15 to 20% less than you normally want to. I'm not going that extreme.

No, no, no.

But on average, people who are thin will live longer. And on average, you're much better off making sure that belly fat number is is below the number that we mentioned, 1/2 of your height.

Right. That's, you heard it right here, guys. You've got to take action on this. And if there's anyone out there like teetering and they're saying, ah, what's the last thing we can tell them to get them to realize that this is critical? What would you say?

We use all kinds of medications to treat diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol. None of them, none of them are as good as you doing it alone. We only give you these medications to paint over the cracks in the foundation of your health, but only you, only you That's why we call them the YouBooks.

Yes.

Only you can actually make an impact on this. We're just there to play backup.

So just make that decision, guys, and you can do it. And you heard it right here. Hopefully these words are going to inspire you to continue to take action to get that belly fat down. Thanks, buddy. We'll pound it. And we'll pound it. All right. Take good care. Thanks, guys.

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