Dr. Ron Najafi explains TOFI: people with similar weight can hide dangerous visceral fat around organs instead of under the skin. CT scans show two equally weighted people with completely different fat distributions. The term, coined by Dr. Jimmy Bell, has over 1,500 medical citations.
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There are plenty of thin, sick people out there, okay? And there are plenty of fat, healthy people out there. And so the question is, which are you? Well, can I prove it? The answer is yeah. Here, I'll prove it. Right here. So here are two equally weighted people, CT scans through the abdomen of two equally weighted people. Notice trunk fat, 12.8. 12.8. One's healthy, one's sick. Which one's sick? B B is sick. A metabolically healthy obese. He's got big love handles. Subcutaneous fat. Not dangerous. In fact, might be protective in many cases. Protective? This guy's got fat all around his organs. Intra abdominal fat, okay? And we have a name for this. It's called tofi. T O F I. Thin on the outside, fat on the inside. Real medical term. 1500 Medline citations. Coined by Dr. Jimmy Bell at University College, London. Neuroimager. So my question to you sitting here right now, all of you, are you a Tophi? How would you know? How could you know?