Josh Heverly says elevated insulin, not calories, is why you can't lose belly fat. 41% of U.S. adults have high insulin, which drives visceral fat and metabolic problems like diabetes and high blood pressure. Lower insulin first, before any diet or workout plan.
I don't care about your calorie deficit, you can't lose belly fat because of elevated insulin. 41% of US adults have elevated insulin, which leads to fat retention, high blood pressure, diabetes, high triglycerides, high uric acid, and more. But before the 1900s, type 2 diabetes affected less than 1% of the population. But then around the 1970s to 1980s, refined sugars and carbs exploded across the American diet, and so did every single one of those problems. That's not a coincidence at all. Refined sugars and carbs spike insulin more than anything else, and insulin is directly Insulin is related to every single one of those problems. Elevated insulin is what drives visceral fat, the fat around your organs, heart, liver, kidneys, and it also drives ectopic fat, the fat inside of your cells, which causes chronic inflammation. So if you have that protruding belly, you can most likely link it back to insulin resistance because you also most likely have visceral fat, ectopic fat, and too much fat overall. So before any workout plan or diet plan, step 1 by far should be focusing on lowering your insulin. Elevated insulin will make it extremely challenging to lose that overall fat but specifically that visceral and ectopic fat, which is the worst. I can't fit everything into a 60-second reel, so if you want my guides on training, nutrition, or fat loss, just comment the word holistic and I'll send it right over to you.
