Barbell Medicine Podcast

You can have a completely normal BMI and be on your way to cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, and metabolic syndrome without triggering a single alert on a standard health screening. The fat that predicts metabolic risk most accurately isn't the fat your scale or your doctor is tracking. Dr. Jordan Feigenbaum breaks down the science of visceral fat — what it is, how it causes disease, how to measure it correctly at home for free, and what the evidence actually shows about exercise, GLP-1 medications, and testosterone.Timestamps:00:00:00 Cold Open: The Visceral Fat Finding00:00:49 The Scale Problem — What Body Weight Actually Measures 00:03:50 What Is Visceral Fat — and Why It's Not Just "Belly Fat"00:05:04 Three Competing Theories: How Visceral Fat Actually Causes Disease 00:08:35 Adipokines: PAI-1, Angiotensinogen, and What Happens When Adiponectin Drops 00:09:52 How to Measure: Three Sites That Don't Give the Same Number 00:14:30 Clinical Thresholds, Ethnic Adjustments, and the Wai