The Shocking Connection Between Stress and Belly Fat (And What You Can Do About It!)

You are now listening to the model health show with Sean Stephenson. For more, visit the modelhealthshow.com. Today, you're going to discover the most overlooked aspect of weight loss and fat loss in our world today. You can have a great diet, exercise regularly, and check all of the commonly discussed weight loss boxes. But there's a force that can absolutely sabotage your weight loss plans, and that force is the powerful and profound impact of stress. It's well established that stress has remarkable influence on our biology overall. A powerful peer reviewed study published in the journal of the American Medical Association has established that upwards of eighty percent of all physician visits today have a primary stress component. Stress can literally make us sick. Whether we're talking about cardiovascular risk, risk to our brain and cognition, risk to our gut health, every organ organ system and every cell in our bodies are deeply influenced by the power of stress. But what the heck is stress? What is it really? And is stress really even bad for us? Are there different types of stress? How can we adapt and make ourselves better so that we are more resilient in the face of stress? And how can we adapt in a way that helps us to lose the weight that we want to lose? Because, again, you can have your diet dialed in, exercise your face off. You can check all these conventional boxes, and I'm here today. I'm standing here before you to share that every single person needs to know this information today. So many people today are struggling to lose the weight that they aspire to lose because of the stressors in their lives. But, again, it's not just about the stressors. It's about our body's stress response system and how our perception of the stress is affecting us. And today, we have four of the leading experts in the world in this subject matter to detail with you explicitly how the stress in your life can be the thing that is sabotaging your weight loss and fat loss plans. And not only that, of course, we're going to dive in deep on the solutions. And up first, you're gonna hear from a medical doctor who's largely considered to be the leading authority in the world on visceral belly fat. Doctor Sean O'Mara is going to share with you why stress is so impactful, specifically on belly fat. So let's dive right in to this first segment with the incredible doctor Sean O'Mara. Number one is, stress, and stress is a killer. And people underestimate just how really bad, stress is in their lives, and they're not perceptive to it. And so we would see individuals that had higher levels of stress coming into the life. They would have higher levels of visceral fat and higher levels of fat around the heart. And when the stress would be abated, the visceral fat would start to be eliminated. …