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I want to talk about the three bellies.

Okay?

If you look around and observe people, you're going to find out a lot of people have belly fat.

But today we're going to differentiate three different types of belly fat.

There are three different problems.

And I wrote a book about this, and I talk about the four different bellies. But today we're going to combine two of those in one

and kind of talk about the actual underlying causes because that belly type is the same shape,

but it's coming from two different causes. And so we have the sagging belly fat. That is either a problem with

too much insulin or too much cortisol. Cortisol is a stress hormone. The next belly is the

protruded belly. You usually see this with the guy that's wearing the speedo on the beach.

He's thin, but he has this basketball pregnant stomach.

That is not fat.

It is a liver problem.

The liver is very, very damaged, and this person is leaking fluid from the liver into a sack

in the abdomen. So it's a fluid-filled sack. If you take one part of the belly and you tap on the

other part, you'll feel there'll be a little bit of a ripple effect. Okay, so that's number two.

Now the third belly is more of a lower poach.

You see this a lot in women, but it's also in men. It's more of a superficial fat. It's called

subcutaneous fat. And it's not necessarily the fat that's around the organs. It's just superficial.

And a lot of times it comes from too much estrogen. Okay, so let's first talk about the sagging belly.

This is called visceral fat. Visceral fat is spill off from the liver. The liver is filling up

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