Visceral Fat Activity Drives Aggressive Endometrial Cancer

Dr. Joseph Mercola - Take Control of Your Health

Briana Mercola

Health & Fitness, Alternative Health

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🗓️ 29 November 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Visceral fat — the deep fat around your organs — acts like a hormone-producing organ that fuels inflammation, disrupts metabolism, and increases the risk of aggressive endometrial cancer
New research shows that fat activity, not fat amount, predicts cancer severity, meaning even women with moderate weight face higher risk if their fat is metabolically active
Chronically inflamed visceral fat releases cytokines, fatty acids, and signaling molecules that promote tumor growth, insulin resistance, and immune suppression, creating a biological environment where cancer thrives
You can calm overactive fat by eliminating seed oils, lowering stress hormones like cortisol, and supporting mitochondrial function through healthy carbs, restorative sleep, and natural progesterone balance
Restoring metabolic health through consistent, daily habits helps deactivate inflammatory fat, lower cancer risk, and rebuild your body's natural resilience and energy production

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0:00.0	What if the threat driving an aggressive cancer isn't in your uterus at all, but in how active
0:04.8	your visceral fat is right now?
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0:26.9	Hello and welcome to Dr. Mercola's cellular wisdom. I'm Ethan Foster. Today we're examining how metabolically active visceral fat can fuel inflammation, distort hormones, and raise
0:33.4	the risk of aggressive endometrial cancer, why activity matters more than amount, and
0:38.8	what daily actions help calm this fat.
0:41.3	I'm Alara Sky. We'll lay out what the new findings mean for you, how visceral fat behaves
0:47.6	like a signaling organ, and the specific steps in the article that aim to quiet inflammatory
0:52.8	fat, stabilize metabolism, and support
0:56.1	resilience.
0:57.9	Most people think more fat equals more risk, but the shift here is about behavior.
1:03.0	Imaging work in women with endometrial cancer found that higher glucose uptake in visceral
1:07.5	fat tracked with more advanced disease and lymph node spread. That means the
1:11.9	most important question isn't, how much fat do you have, but how overactive is it?
1:17.1	That distinction explains why two women with similar body size can have very different outcomes.
1:22.6	If your visceral fat is inflamed and metabolically hot, it releases cytokines, fatty acids,
1:30.3	and other signals that push your system toward chronic inflammation, immune suppression, and faster tumor growth.
1:36.3	This fat-driven inflammation also ties directly to insulin resistance.
1:41.3	When your cells stop responding to insulin, glucose and insulin stay high in
1:45.8	your blood, and that surplus becomes steady fuel for tumors. The biology favors disease when fat
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