Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

Is there a way you think I'll ever be able to burn belly fat for good?

There's a component, of course, with genetics.

Now, we know that the leading science right now and what's really beginning to

finally explode and become a popular part of the lexicon is epigenetics and things that are above

genetic control. Now, with that said, I think the first thing is having a understanding and

an association with what fat actually is. Most folks have no idea. Fat can be broken down into essentially five different

categories at minimum. A couple of these folks might have heard before, but we're going to go even

deeper. So the first type is subcutaneous fat. This is a fat that's just below your skin. If you think

about like fat on your arms or your thighs, your butt, you can also have some subcutaneous fat on your belly, but that's the stuff you can pinch.

The other type of fat is visceral fat.

It's also known as omentum fat.

And omentum fat is the kind of deeper recesses of your abdominal cavity.

So this is the fat that's really kind of around the organs, you know, if you have a lot of visceral fat,

putting stress on your pancreas and on your kidneys and just everything in your core.

This is the most dangerous type of fat.

This is the fat that's most correlated with heart disease, with Alzheimer's, with type 2 diabetes.

You know, it's just putting stress on your core, everything, which there's so much around there.

Digestive track, your organs, your liver, your stomach, everything.

This is the stuff, it's a little bit more firm to the touch. It's a little bit harder to get your hands around.

So these are both still two types of white adipose tissue. These are storage fats. Okay, so your body's storing energy.

And before I go on, let me preface by saying this. These are storage fats. Okay, so your body's storing energy. And before I go on,

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