The Fat You Can’t Pinch Is the Most Dangerous — Here’s the Fix

Josh Axe (0:00)

If I only had seven days to eliminate visceral fat, I'm gonna share with you right now what I would eat every single day. And listen to this, there was a study done where over 18 months, they did MRI scans. And there was one way of eating specifically that cut visceral fat by 14%.

And by the end of this episode, you'll know exactly what to put on your plate to reduce visceral fat fast. Now, before we dive in, doing a big favor, hit the subscribe button. It's the number one thing that you can do so the episodes in the future don't get lost. Also, you are now entered into giveaways. This year, we'll be giving away an infrared sauna from Sunlighten, an infrared light mask. We're also gonna be giving away signed book copies, free blood work, and so much more. You're entered in to win these incredible prizes when you're subscribed to the show. Welcome to The Dr. Axe Show.

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Hey, before we dive in, I want to let you know that I put together this exact protocol and plan in the show notes. So if you want it laid out for you exactly what to eat every day for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and have a protocol so you can reduce visceral fat fast, just go to the show notes and download the guide I have right in there for you. Okay, so let's dive in. So the fat that you can't pinch, right? So you can sit there, you can pinch the fat around your belly and your love handles, around your waist, you can pinch that fat. That's not visceral fat, that's general body fat. Visceral really means organs. So visceral fat is different. It packs in around your organs, and it pumps out inflammatory signals. Now, if you're watching YouTube, you can see this here, that orange visceral fat that sits in between your intestines and packed between those organs, those literally are causing constant inflammation and aging of every organ, cell, and tissue in your body. So if you're going to lose any type of body fat, losing visceral fat is the most important for reversing chronic illness. And so now I want to dive in and walk you through those top seven foods that can help you reduce visceral fat fast. Number one, according to studies, is kefir and fermented dairy. And this is one, by the way, that surprised me. A daily fermented milk moved visceral fat on CT scans. The trial used one-strain lactobacillus gasseri. And this is something found predominantly in kefir. And so you could go to the grocery store today and buy something like goat's milk kefir or A2 cow's milk kefir. But getting kefir, so fermenting dairy, creates these probiotics. And these probiotics reduce inflammation in the gut, which then thereby reduces visceral fat. Now one of the other great things about kefir is it's very low in sugar, because the sugar has been turned into good bacteria. So kefir tends to be higher in fiber. Kefir tends to be high in protein, high in good fat, and also very high in probiotics. And yogurt would work in the same way, or even cottage cheese can be beneficial if it's a high probiotic cottage cheese. But overall, kefir is fantastic. By the way, kefir is one of those foods that one of my closest friends, Jordan Rubin, reversed Crohn's disease and ulcer of colitis with. My mom also did kefir mixed with flax meal as part of her anti-cancer protocol. And so again, there are loads and loads of immune boosting benefits and anti-inflammatory benefits when we talk about the probiotics found in real kefir. In fact, in this study, daily fermented milk like kefir and yogurt reduced visceral fat by 8.5%.

I mean, that's dramatic. This is a study done in 210 adults with large areas of visceral fat over a 12 week period. So just in 12 weeks, they were able to reduce visceral fat by 8.5%.

All right, so if that first one is new to you, hit the subscribe button. That's just one of the seven. And number seven is the plate that I would eat every single day, which we'll get into in a minute. All right, number two, eggs and grass fed beef. Protein is the most filling thing you can put in your mouth. And the great thing about it is it keeps you fuller longer. You eat less later. And it's very hard and rare for your body to take protein or muscle and turn that into body fat. And it also supports mitochondria and metabolic health. So there's all kinds of benefits with that that causes visceral fat to melt off your body. Now, here's what they found in a study done on 160 overweight adults who ate two eggs a day instead of a beagle for eight weeks. They had two groups, the beagle group and the two egg group.