Harmony Hub Health
Functional Medicine, Hormone Health and Weight Loss with Michele Postol, CRNP
Harmony Hub Health
Visceral Fat, Metabolic Chaos, and How to Fix It
Your body is sending you warning signals that go far deeper than your waistline. That stubborn belly fat isn't just an aesthetic concern—it's a metabolically active danger zone wrapped around your vital organs, disrupting everything from your hormones to your brain function.
In this eye-opening episode, we dive into visceral fat—the hidden inflammatory tissue that even slim people can carry in dangerous amounts. Unlike the fat you can pinch, visceral fat lives deep in your abdominal cavity, secreting inflammatory compounds that impact insulin sensitivity, liver function, hormone balance, and even cognitive health. You'll discover why that "beer belly" is scientifically accurate terminology and how visceral fat differs from fatty liver disease (they're related but distinct metabolic issues).
The truth about visceral fat accumulation might surprise you. It's not simply about calories or willpower—it's driven by insulin resistance, chronic stress, sleep deprivation, gut inflammation, and hormonal shifts. Most shocking? You can have normal weight yet dangerous levels of visceral fat, especially during perimenopause, menopause, or andropause. I share my personal journey with fatty liver disease and how liver health dramatically improved in just three weeks with targeted interventions.
You'll learn practical, science-backed strategies to measure and reduce visceral fat, including why resistance training twice weekly outperforms endless cardio, how gut health restoration creates metabolic transformation, and when tools like GLP-1 medications, skinny shots, and shape scale monitoring can accelerate your progress. Most importantly, you'll understand why addressing visceral fat is a crucial investment in preventing diabetes, cardiovascular disease, hormonal chaos, cognitive decline, and premature aging.
Ready to evict your metabolic "toxic roommate" and restore whole-body health? Book your consultation at harmonyhubhealth.com where we don't guess—we test, scan, and create personalized metabolic reset programs based on your unique biochemistry and lifestyle factors.
Welcome to Harmony Hub Health, where my mission is to provide comprehensive, affordable, integrative care that addresses the root cause of health issues. At the Hub, the focus is on individual patient journeys. I strive to optimize health, vitality and longevity, fostering a community where each person can thrive in body, mind and spirit. I had some pretty interesting conversations this week with new patients that were hopping on the shape scale for the first time and they had never really heard of visceral fat, and it definitely is something that needs to be addressed. So today I want to talk about this type of fat that doesn't jiggle you can't suck it into Spanx but it absolutely deserves your attention. This visceral fat this is that stealthy dangerous belly fat that lives deep inside your abdomen, wrapped around your vital organs, like that clingy ex who won't let go and, unlike love, handles. This one doesn't just affect your genes, that's genes with a J. It impacts your entire metabolic health. Okay, this is not the pinch and inch that I do. If you're getting an injection in the office, this is visceral fat. If you've been working out, eating clean and wondering why your labs still look like prediabetes, this episode is also definitely for you. I want to dive into what it is why you can't always see it but it still does some damage, how it messes with your hormones, your liver and even your brain, and, most importantly, how to evict it functionally and forever. We'll chat a little bit about GLP-1s, the skinny shot, the shape scale, and why your stress belly might be more science than lack of willpower. Okay, so let's get visceral.
Speaker 1:So what exactly is visceral fat? Visceral fat is the deep internal fat that wraps around your abdominal organs like your liver, your pancreas, your intestines, your kidneys. It's not the kind of fat you can pinch. Like I said, this is the hidden fat stored inside your belly cavity, beneath the abdominal wall, between your organs. Think of it like a thick, inflamed sleeping bag wrapped tightly around your vital systems. Except, instead of keeping you warm, it's disrupting your hormones, inflaming your tissues and blocking your metabolic flow. So what makes visceral fat different and more dangerous is that it's metabolically active, meaning it doesn't just sit there. It secretes hormones, inflammatory chemicals like IL-6 and TNF-alpha, and stress signals that affect your entire body. It drains directly into the liver through the portal vein, flooding it with free fatty acids and inflammatory compounds. It raises your risk for serious chronic conditions, including type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, fatty liver disease, dementia and cognitive decline, hormonal imbalances and certain cancers like breast cancer and colorectal cancer. Visceral fat is the biological version of a toxic roommate. It's loud, it's inflammatory, it messes with everything from your blood sugar to your brain. And this isn't just extra insulation. Visceral fat is like an inflammatory command center secreting toxic cytokines that wreak havoc on everything from your blood sugar to your brain health and your blood pressure.
Speaker 1:So I had someone ask me this week if fatty liver which I had to talk with because of the blood results if the visceral fat was the same as fatty liver. And they are related but they're not the same thing. So I did want to start by kind of talking about the differences of them. They're kind of like dysfunctional cousins in the metabolic family. The difference is, you know, visceral fat.
Speaker 1:Visceral fat is stored around internal organs but not inside them, in the abdominal cavity. It goes around the liver, the pancreas, the intestines, the kidneys, but it's outside of organs but deep inside the belly. Like I said, it's metabolically active and secretes inflammatory chemicals and it's linked to insulin resistance, inflammation, cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. So it's that angry blanket wrapping around your organs and throwing metabolic tantrums. On the other hand, fatty liver, also known as hepatic steatosis, is fat stored inside the liver cells, usually in the form of triglycerides, so it's inside the liver itself.
Speaker 1:There's different types. We have the non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and then we have the alcoholic fatty liver disease. The non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is caused by poor diet, obesity, insulin resistance and of course, the alcohol fatty liver is caused by chronic alcohol consumption. They both lead to liver inflammation, that's diatohepatitis, fibrosis, cirrhosis and even liver failure. Fatty liver is the organ equivalent of hoarding junk in your attic, until the house starts to fall apart.
Speaker 1:Visceral fat and fatty liver often show up together because they share the same metabolic root causes, which is high insulin levels, sugar overload, especially fructose chronic inflammation, poor gut health and a sedentary lifestyle. And studies show that the more visceral fat that you carry, the higher your risk for developing fatty liver, even if your weight is in that normal range. So having high visceral fat is a strong predictor of hepatic fat accumulation and progression to NASH, what we call non-alcoholic steatohepatitis. But the good news is that when you treat one, the other often improves as well. So when you do reduce visceral fat, you're improving the sensitivity of your cells to insulin. You're supporting your liver detox pathways, you're decreasing fat accumulation in your liver cells and you're lowering inflammation across the board. At Harmony Hub Health, I do track visceral fat with the shape scale and we support liver using different nutraceuticals I love NAC and milk thistle and lipotropics Even the IV glutathione or liver detox blends even the skinny shot helps with that and also just the functional testing when I do GI map or the metabolic panel, or even just your metabolic um panel using your ALT and AST or GGT. All of those things and then the GLP ones that we use along with nutritional protocols and personalized detox support. Just to be vulnerable.
Speaker 1:Um, I myself. I was told I had fatty liver when I had my gallbladder removed and that is what actually opened my eyes and started my entire transformation. I went to a surgeon for a gastric sleeve, I was overweight, I had sleep apnea, I had high blood pressure and when I started my nurse practitioner career, I started in solid organ transplant at University of Maryland practitioner career. I started in solid organ transplant at University of Maryland, day in and day out. I was providing care for liver, kidney and pancreas transplant patients Up to that time. I was already a nurse for 11 years at that point, but it was the first job as a nurse practitioner and I was so fascinated. Um, had I actually liked the people I worked with, I'd probably still be there, but I'm good at leaving toxic people in toxic environments.
Speaker 1:Now I stay away from as many toxins as I can, but I learned so much and I am a learner. If you know me, that's what I do. I just love to learn. But I saw what fatty liver did. I was obsessed with the liver to the point that I was actually surprised I did not stop drinking alcohol in 2011 when I saw with my own eyes how toxic it was to the body.
Speaker 1:I don't mean the drunk drivers who crashed and then we harvested their organs. I mean just how vital the liver is and how, once your liver goes, there's no backup and it is a miserable and painful, long-suffering death. You know your kidneys go and you have dialysis. The heart goes and you can get a fake pump and medications to help it squeeze. The liver goes and it is worse than any horror film that I can imagine. Yet daily we do things to disrespect it. That can be a whole podcast by itself, but long story short.
Speaker 1:I was put on a pre-op diet to decrease fatty liver and visceral fat, because belly surgery is hard enough and when you have visceral fat in the way so many complications can happen, it's just harder to do. And when my surgery was done my liver was shiny and beautiful. I was able to rid my liver of fat by health choices in three short weeks. Now I didn't learn this until after my sleeve, but had I known that I could reverse my fatty liver like that, I probably would not have even had the surgery. Don't get me wrong. I think they're great and I credit the surgery as a start of my entire health overhaul. It's what sparked my interest in metabolic health and allowed me to really dive deep into how to help others with all the things I was struggling with. I still have photos after surgery that shows my shiny, beautiful liver. I'm surprised I haven't framed it yet, but I do still have visceral fat. According to my shape scale it's gotten less, but I do still have some. I'm still a work in progress.
Speaker 1:Fatty liver is easier and faster to reverse than visceral fat, especially in the early stages, but they're often intertwined and addressing one, like I said, can really improve the other. Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is highly responsive to lifestyle changes. In fact, it can start clearing from the liver within weeks of dietary and metabolic intervention. The liver does regenerate very quickly, especially with support. You don't need drastic weight loss. Studies show that losing just 5-7% of your body weight can significantly reduce liver fat. Your body weight can significantly reduce liver fat, and lowering fructose and improving insulin sensitivity leads to rapid reduction in intrahepatic fat that's liver fat. Research also shows that liver fat can decrease before visible weight loss occurs, especially when you lower your carb content. The Mediterranean diet is great for that.
Speaker 1:If you go on time-restricted eating like intermittent fasting, if you do take liver-supporting nutrients like the glycine, the choline, the NAC, the milk thistle, or just GLP-1 agonists like semaglutide, visceral fat is very stubborn. So this is much more hormonally driven, especially if your cortisol is high, if your hormones are not balanced, like that estrogen, testosterone and progesterone, if there's chronic inflammation, if you have poor sleep, if you're in perimenopause, menopause or andropause, and it's still one of the first fat depots to shrink. With consistent lifestyle and metabolic interventions You'll likely feel and function better. Your blood pressure will go down, you'll have more energy, you'll have improved insulin before you see big changes, but they do work together. So improving fatty liver improves insulin sensitivity, which helps burn visceral fat, and reducing visceral fat improves liver function, lowers your ALT, your AST and reduces that whole fatty liver risk. Glp-1s like semaglutide, liraglutide and the skinny shots target both effectively when paired with nutrition and movement.
Speaker 1:And you may wonder how this visceral fat accumulates. It isn't just the result of eating too many cookies or too many donuts, although that definitely does contribute. It accumulates when your body is under metabolic stress, struggling to balance insulin, cortisol and inflammation. So we'll break down these culprits, okay. Insulin resistance is definitely the gateway to belly fat. Visceral fat loves a good sugar spike. When you eat too many refined carbs or sugary foods, your body releases insulin to shuffle glucose into cells. Over time your cells stop responding to shuffle glucose into cells. Over time your cells stop responding efficiently and insulin stays elevated. If you haven't listened to my insulin resistance Bridgerton podcast, you can see that that's in season one. High insulin does equal fat storage mode, especially in your abdomen. This is why people can be eating normal I'm going to put that in quotes calories, but still accumulate visceral fat because their insulin is stuck in overdrive. And if you've ever had a blood panel with me, I usually do check a fasting insulin.
Speaker 1:And the second one would be stress, stress and cortisol. You know it's belly fat's best friend. So chronic stress whether it's traffic jams or work deadlines or unresolved trauma from your past, they all raise cortisol levels. And cortisol tells your body let's store that fat Now. You might be running from a tiger later. So where does your body store it? It puts it right in that visceral cavity. Cortisol also increases cravings for salty, fatty, sugary foods. So this is that feedback loop that you get that just causes the problem.
Speaker 1:And then the third culprit is that sleep deprivation. If you are getting less than seven hours of night of good sleep, your body produces more ghrelin, which is the hunger hormone. It suppresses leptin, which tells you that you are full from eating. You become less insulin sensitive and it stores more fat in the belly. So even short-term sleep restriction has been shown to increase visceral fat in healthy individuals. And then we have alcohol. So alcohol is processed by the liver and if you consume excess of that it slows down fat metabolism. Add in blood sugar swings from yummy cocktails, beer and wine and you've got the perfect storm for central fat accumulation. That's why they call it a beer belly. You know it really is clinically accurate.
Speaker 1:And then low muscle mass equals higher fat storage. So muscle is metabolically active tissue. Less muscle means fewer calories burned at rest and less glucose uptake from the bloodstream. So that glucose it has to go somewhere and visceral fat is very happy to volunteer. This is why resistance training is non-negotiable if you're serious about reversing visceral fat, and I don't mean you need to live in a gym, okay, I don't even want you working out five days a week. I don't even want you working out five days a week. Two days of just resistance training, two days of muscle work a week is really all you need.
Speaker 1:And then hormone imbalances and aging is a really big culprit. As estrogen, testosterone, dhea and growth hormone levels start to go down, hello midlife. Your body shifts its fat storage pattern. So women more belly fat post-menopause due to low estrogen. Men get increased visceral fat with low testosterone and both men and women have less muscle mass, slower metabolism and higher inflammation. So visceral fat becomes the body's new favorite storage unit when hormone signals start to break down. And not least important but the last one I'm going to say, is gut inflammation and dysbiosis. So an unhealthy gut microbiome causes more inflammation. You get leaky gut and you get that altered fat storage. So studies do show gut imbalances can affect how your body stores and redistributes fat, with visceral fat becoming a default storage depot.
Speaker 1:So what if you don't have a shape scale? How do you know if you have visceral fat? It is very sneaky. You just have to use some other tools. One of them is looking at your waist circumference. If you're a woman and it's greater than 35 inches. If you're a man and it's greater than 40 inches, this is a red flag for visceral fat and metabolic syndrome. You can also calculate your waist to hip ratio. This is where you measure your waist. Measure your hip. Look at the ratio. If it's greater than 0.85 and you're a woman, or if it's greater than 0.9 and you're a man, this strongly correlates with cardiovascular risk.
Speaker 1:You can go and get a DEXA scan. This is a high-end scan that can precisely measure fat compartments, including visceral fat. It is the gold standard, but it's not exactly affordable or accessible to everybody. There is an in-body scanner that you can find at a local gym or some weight loss clinics do have an in-body. You can also get an MRI or a CT scan. It's very accurate but again, not practical unless you're in some type of research, trial or getting scans. For another reason, my favorite is the ShapeScale. That's what I had at Monarch Beauty and Spa. It is a non-invasive 3D scanner that gives you the visceral fat score, maps fat distribution and lets you see your internal health progress, not just your pant size.
Speaker 1:And what I like to look at is metabolic syndrome, because metabolic syndrome and visceral fat are just a dangerous duo. So visceral fat is the ringleader in the metabolic syndrome gang, a cluster of risk factors that raise your chances for diabetes, heart disease, stroke and early death. So you get diagnosed with metabolic syndrome if you have three of the following okay, the first one was that waist circumference so 35 inches for women, greater than 40 for men. If your triglycerides are greater than 150, if your HDL is less than 50 for women, less than 40 for men, if your blood pressure is greater than 130 over 85, and if your fasting glucose is greater than 100. So you only need three of those and you have metabolic syndrome. And what is telling there is they don't ask you what your weight is. So even if your weight is normal, you can have metabolic syndrome. A lot of people think if they're not obese, then they definitely don't have to worry, but you do. If you check these boxes, then visceral fat is most likely present and causing metabolic dysfunction.
Speaker 1:One of the glorious parts of visceral fat is that it does respond very quickly to the right interventions. Studies now show that a 5% to 10% loss of body weight can lead to a 20% to 30% drop in visceral fat, and this translates to major health wins, just as a health marker, you know. Improvement with less visceral fat, improved insulin sensitivity to restore that metabolic flexibility. Blood pressure shown to drop within weeks. Triglycerides and HDL normalized inflammation can definitely drop and you'll see a decrease in the CRP or inflammatory markers. There's reported improved memory and focus and better brain function. And just hormones better cortisol, better estradiol and testosterone balance. You'll feel it and I'll measure it with the shape scale. You want to let your progress be visible and visceral.
Speaker 1:One of the tools I do like to use are glp-1 medications because those are science-backed fat burners. They're more than a trendy weight loss hack. They're actually metabolic reset tools. I do not put everybody with visceral fat on glp-1s, but they really do help reduce visceral fat. It improves your insulin sensitivity. It reduces appetite and cravings all of that food noise. It lowers inflammation and it promotes preferential loss of visceral fat over subcutaneous fat. And you know, those improved lipid markers, blood sugar and blood pressure are amazing. So clinical studies do show a 20% drop in visceral fat mass in GLP-1 users, even without major lifestyle changes. So imagine what happens when you pair it with functional medicine and some nutrition.
Speaker 1:At Harmony Hub Health I do combine GLP-1s with metabolic panels and hormone testing, nutrient therapy and the shape scale. We also have the Skinny Shot, and for those that are not using GLP-1s but are looking for an affordable booster, the Skinny Shot is a game changer. So this has methionine that supports liver detox and fat metabolism, inositol that boosts that insulin sensitivity. It has choline that helps transport and eliminate fat, and B12, preferably methylcobalamin that gives you energy, mood and metabolism. So these all support fat breakdown, especially in the liver. It can reduce belly bloat and visceral fat accumulation and it boosts energy while supporting detox pathways. Think of the skinny shot as a nudge for your liver to stop hoarding fat and to start releasing it. And I do love the compounds that have arginine and carnitine. It's just the chef's kiss on top. You can come to Monarch Beauty and Spa for the skinny shot, or you can also order it from me after consultation and you can give it to yourself at home.
Speaker 1:Another big topic is if your gut is a mess, your metabolism probably is too. So we're learning that you can't fix body fat without fixing gut health first, and visceral fat is no exception. When you have leaky gut you then have have inflammation, which then leads to fat storage. So when your gut lining is damaged this is also known as that intestinal permeability or leaky gut undigested food particles, bacteria and toxins sneak into your bloodstream. This is a very hard concept to visualize in your brain. I do have great handouts when I talk about gut health and office that kind of show that and this triggers an immune response and chronic low-grade inflammation. So this disrupts your insulin signaling. This raises your cortisol. This promotes that fat storage, especially visceral fat, as a protective buffer around your organs. You know it wants to protect your body, so your cells get surrounded by fat. So leaky gut makes your body think it's under attack, so it stores belly fat because it wants to protect you.
Speaker 1:And the bacteria in your gut directly affects how your body extracts energy from food, regulates metabolism and stores fat. When your gut is dominated by bad bugs like firmusutes and yeast overgrowth. You're more likely to extract more calories from the same food, store more fat viscerally and have increased lipopolysaccharide levels. That's LPS. It's a toxic byproduct that raises inflammation and insulin resistance. Also, when you have gut brain axis disruption, this affects hunger, cravings and stress. So your gut talks to your brain via that vagus nerve and produces neurotransmitters like serotonin and dopamine. When your gut is inflamed or imbalanced, this communication gets scrambled. So you feel more hungry, you crave more sugar and ultra processed foods. You have a lot more mood swings, which then leads to more emotional eating. Your cortisol rises and it triggers even more visceral fat gain. So your gut bacteria can make you store belly fat by hijacking your mood and cravings. And then when you have slow digestion and you cause the sluggish detox, then you get more belly fat. So constipation, bloating and poor motility mean toxins are not being eliminated efficiently. This bogs down the liver, it promotes estrogen recirculation and encourages fat storage in the abdominal cavity to trap those toxins. Your body is not being lazy, remember, it's protecting you. But the result is more inflammation and more visceral fat. At Harmony Hub Health I can use GI map testing to assess dysbiosis leaky gut markers like the zonulin, that LPS and inflammation. Leaky gut markers like the zonulin, that LPS and inflammation. We also have the HTMA or the hair tissue mineral analysis and the food sensitivity testing to pinpoint gut related triggers. I have cortisol testing, microbiome mapping to explore that gut adrenal fat connection and then the shape scale to monitor visceral fat reduction once your gut health is restored. Scale to monitor visceral fat reduction once your gut health is restored. So fix your gut and your belly may start fixing itself.
Speaker 1:Visceral fat is not just a weight issue. It's a warning sign that your gut, your hormones and your metabolism all need support. And if we go back to hormones, visceral fat and hormones causes just endocrine chaos. Visceral fat isn't just passive storage. It's an inflammatory hormone, disrupting endocrine organ all by itself. So it produces and interferes with several key hormones that regulate everything from metabolism to mood. So when you have chronic visceral fat, this causes chronic inflammation, which causes chronically elevated cortisol. Chronically elevated cortisol suppresses your thyroid function, it increases insulin resistance and it keeps you in fat storage mode. And in women, excess visceral fat leads to estrogen dominance, especially after age of 40 when progesterone naturally declines. In men it increases aromatase activity, converting testosterone to estrogen. This causes fatigue, belly fat and low libido. And these anti-aging, fat-burning hormones take a nosedive as visceral fat and insulin resistance climb. So that's your DHEA and your growth hormones they just go down.
Speaker 1:Visceral fat also promotes resistance to leptin. This is your hormone that tells you you're full. So when your brain thinks you're starving, the cravings go out of control. So visceral fat hijacks the feedback loops that regulate hunger, fertility, fat burning and mood. And you have to think of your liver as a detox rock star. But when it gets choked by visceral fat with metabolic sludge, you know, visceral fat increases free fatty acids circulating to the liver, causing triglyceride buildup and inflammation. This is what progresses to NASH or that non-alcoholic steatosis, hepatitis, fibrosis and liver dysfunction, and it really slows down your phase one and phase two detox pathways. An overworked fatty liver cannot clear estrogen, histamine or environmental toxins very efficiently. So this backs up your entire detox and hormone clearance system. Your ALT and AST on your blood work is going to go up even before major symptoms even start to appear. So the liver plays a huge role in maintaining blood sugar. So fat accumulation equals insulin resistance and erratic glucose output.
Speaker 1:Fatty liver and visceral fat are often two sides of the same metabolic coin. And visceral fat does not just stay in your belly, it sends an inflammatory signal straight to your brain. Cytokines cross the blood-brain barrier. Il-6, tnf-alpha and CRP from visceral fat contribute to neuroinflammation, which is linked to poor memory, low mood and anxiety, brain fog and cognitive decline. Even Alzheimer's right now is being referred to as type 3 diabetes. It does impact the HPA axis. Chronic visceral fat dysregulates the hypothalamic pituitary adrenal access, worsening stress resilience and messing with your cortisol rhythm. If you've ever heard of BDNF, this is brain-derived neurotrophic factors, but it reduces them. So fewer new brain cells, slower brain repair and impaired learning and impaired memory. It's even shown in studies that it can shrink brain volume. Higher visceral fat correlates with smaller hippocampal volume. This is a part of the brain that manages your memory and your learning.
Speaker 1:So have I scared you into wanting to change the amount of visceral fat you have? Now we'll talk about, okay, how do we get rid of it and how do we get rid of it for good? Number one clean up your diet. You want to focus on whole foods, protein and fiber. I have some people asking me well, can you give me a full diet plan? Yes, here's your diet plan. Just cut out ultra processed foods to start. If you don't do anything else, cut out ultra processed foods and I guarantee in a few weeks you're going to feel completely different. But you do want to focus on the whole foods, the protein and the fiber. You want to ditch the excess sugar, the alcohol, especially those processed carbs. You can try intermittent fasting. It's not for everybody. If you are looking for help with that, definitely have a consultation. I do not believe that's for everybody.
Speaker 1:The second thing you want to do to get rid of visceral fat is to move more and do it more smartly. A lot of people aim for 10,000 steps a day. I'm not a huge fan of that. Many people add yoga or walking to lower cortisol. I do love that, but what I do love is resistance training and I do love a little bit of HIIT. It's the best fat burning combo, mixing HIIT with resistance training. And I don't mean five days a week, I don't mean living in the gym. Start with two days a week. Okay, two days a week for 45 minutes, and you're gonna be amazed with how you feel. The third thing is to manage stress, because cortisol directly increases visceral fat. This is when we have to use that self-care of the PEMF mat or starting journaling or breath work, anything restorative that can kind of help manage stress. I do love the Pulseto. I think it's an amazing stimulator for the vagus nerve.
Speaker 1:The fourth thing that's very important is optimize your sleep. Seven to nine hours of high quality sleep can really keep your hormones in check. You can use an aura ring, like I do. I know a lot of people like the whoop, but you want to make sure your sleep is optimized. I can do a whole other podcast on just optimizing sleep.
Speaker 1:Number five is support your hormones. You know, get functional hormone labs. If you have hormone imbalance, you need to address them. If you have estrogen dominance, or if you have low testosterone, or if you have adrenal fatigue, they need to address them. If you have estrogen dominance or if you have low testosterone or if you have adrenal fatigue, they need to be addressed. You can address them with BHRT. We can talk about adaptogens. I do have the Dutch test as well, which is great at seeing how those are fluctuating. And then you know number six I'm going to say use functional tools wisely.
Speaker 1:Glp-1s for metabolic reset, skinny shots for liver and fat support, and then that shape scale to track visceral loss visually, not just with scale numbers. Okay, so that is our visceral fat eviction plan, easier said than done, but definitely something that I can be here for you every step of the way to get it gone. So to do a little recap, visceral fat is not about vanity and it is not about weight. It is about your hormones, your brain, your liver and your future self sending an SOS wrapped in inflammation and belly bloat. So if you're tired of hearing, oh, just eat less and move more when your labs are screaming metabolic mayday, it's time for a different approach.
Speaker 1:At Harmony Hub Health, I don't guess, I test, I scan, I retest. I'll show you exactly where you stand with a shape scale. We'll uncover root causes with functional testing and guide you through a personalized metabolic reset program that doesn't involve starving or signing up for bootcamp. Let's get that visceral fat to pack its bags and restore your energy, your hormones and metabolism along the way. Book your consultation now and find out what your belly's been hiding. It's not just leftover tacos.
Speaker 1:So head to wwwharmonyhubhealthcom and visit my website. You can also email me at michelle M-I-C-H-E-L-E at harmonyhubhealthcom, or you can just make your appointment if you want to see me in person at Monarch Beauty and Spa in Manchester, maryland. Come and see me in person and we'll dig into your labs, your lifestyle, your stress and your sleep the whole CSI belly fat edition and craft a custom plan to torch that toxic fluff. You can also step on the shape scale where in 60 seconds you'll get a 3D scan that shows visceral fat levels, muscle balance and where you're secretly hiding that midnight snack evidence. So no more guessing, no more pinching or standing on a sad bathroom scale that has zero idea how awesome your organs could look. So expect science-backed nutrition, hormone tuning, glp-1 guidance if that's your jam skinny shots and enough functional medicine magic to make your mitochondria throw a party.
Speaker 1:This podcast is for educational entertainment. It is not a substitute for your personal health care provider, your neighbor's questionable gym advice or that late-night TikTok wellness guru with the ring light and zero credentials. Talk to a real clinician, preferably me, before starting any program, especially one that involves needles, peptides or giving up four caramel macchiatos a day. Now go, be healthy and remember friends. Don't let friends hoard visceral fat.