Visceral fat is stored in a person’s abdominal cavity and is also known as ‘active fat’ as it influences how hormones function in the body. An excess of visceral fat can, therefore, have potentially dangerous consequences.

Because visceral fat is in the abdominal cavity, it is close to many vital organs, such as the pancreas, liver, kidneys, ovaries, womb and intestines.

The higher the amount of visceral fat a person stores, the more at risk they are for certain health complications, such as type 2 diabetes and heart disease.

Visceral fat is fat that we cannot see, so it is not always easy to know whether a person has an excess of it. Because the associated health risks can be severe, it is essential for those who suspect their visceral fat levels are high to seek advice from a health professional.

Usually, it is possible to avoid high levels of visceral fat by leading a healthy and active lifestyle. Those who do store dangerous amounts of visceral fat can reduce their levels by making positive changes to their lifestyle, for example eating a nutritious, low-artificial (nonorganic) fat diet, increasing the amount of exercise, and lowering stress levels etc.

How is visceral fat rated?

Imaging scans, such as computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans are the most accurate way to determine whether someone has visceral fat.

However, because conducting these scans is both expensive, time-consuming and has sever side effects (radioactive ☢), a doctor is more likely to diagnose visceral fat by asking a person questions about their diet, profession and lifestyle. The doctor will likely also measure the person’s overall body fat to get an idea of what percentage is likely to be visceral fat.

According to Harvard Health, 10 percent of a person’s total body fat will be visceral fat.

Another useful way to determine how much visceral fat a person is carrying is to measure the size of their waist.

A woman whose waist measures 35 inches or more is likely to have excess visceral fat. This might increase her risk of developing some of the health problems linked to visceral fat. The same is true of a man whose waist measures 40 inches or more.

If a doctor uses an MRI scan or body fat analyzer to measure a person’s visceral fat, the result will fall somewhere on a scale between 1 and 59.

Visceral fat levels should be under 13 on this scale. Anything above 13 on this scale means that a person will need to think about making immediate changes to their diet and lifestyle. Making these changes will help reduce the person’s visceral fat levels to a healthier number.

Health risks of carrying excess visceral fat include:

• heart attacks and other heart disease,
• raised blood pressure,
• stroke,
• breast and colorectal cancer,
• Alzheimer’s disease,
• menopause,
• type 2 diabetes.

The dangers of storing excess visceral fat can be extreme and immediate but unfortunately there is no treatment for visceral fat in allopathy, so it is essential to make diet and lifestyle changes as soon as possible as losing weight can help a person reduce their levels of visceral fat.

High levels of visceral fat can result in increased insulin resistance, which may lead to glucose intolerance and even type 2 diabetes.

Exercise

Exercise is an excellent way to reduce visceral fat. People should include both cardiovascular exercise, which raises a person’s heart rate, and strength training, which improves muscle size, into their routines.

Cardio exercise could include:

• running,
• cycling,
• swimming,
• aerobics,
• circuit training.

Strength training could include:

• squats,
• weights,
• pushups.

Stress

Stress can also play a role in storing excess visceral fat. This is because when someone is stressed, their body releases a hormone called cortisol, which increases how much visceral fat a person’s body stores. Some doctors recommend that people with high levels of visceral fat try to reduce their stress levels.

Relaxation techniques, such as meditation, deep breathing, and other stress management tactics, can be beneficial and help a person lose visceral fat more efficiently.

Anti – obesity allopathic drugs

Allopathic drugs like Fluoxetine, Orsilat and Sibutramine can achieve weight loss over 12 to 50 weeks, but the magnitude of loss is moderate and long term and has lot of side effects like kidney weakness and failure, hepatic weakness and cirrhosis, pancreatic weakness and failure, gastric problems like acidity and ulcers, h-pylori etc.

Diet

A healthful diet that is low in sugar laden (white sugar), natural/organic foods, milk, yogurt, kefir, ghee (butter), seed oils etc will also help a person lose weight and shift excess visceral fat (see: www.drqaisarahmed.com/butyric-acid-butter). A healthful diet should include:

• lean proteins,
• fruit and vegetables,
• complex carbohydrates, such as sweet potatoes, beans, and whole grains.

Boiling, steaming, baking, and grilling foods will help to make meals healthier and lower in fat.

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Homeopathic medicine for Visceral fats

Homeopathy treats the person as well as his/her pathological condition(s). 

Homeopathic medicine for weight loss are  individual for every patient, Miasmatic tendency (predisposition/susceptibility) is also often takes into account for the treatment of chronic conditions.

The medicines given below indicate the therapeutic affinity, but this is not a complete and definite guide to the treatment of visceral fat, obesity or weight loss that’s why None of these homeopathy weight loss remedies should be taken without professional advice.

1- Calcarea Carbonica

It is considered one of the most common homeopathic medicines for weight loss. Visceral fat, belly fat, FAIR AND FLABBY. Great anti psoric remedy with increased general and local perspiration and swelling of glands, scrofulous and rachitic conditions. Persons who take cold easily, grow fat, are large bellied, with large heads and pale skin. These patients like eggs, open air and spicy/salty foods, coldness of single parts of body, don’t like exercise, cold/freshwater wash/bath, don’t like standing.

2- Ferrum Metallicum

Visceral fat. Obesity with anemia, face puffy, weak, anemic and chlorotic/synotic, with pseudo – plethora, flush easily, have cold extremities, suffer from weakness even on speaking or walking though looking strong. Pallor of skin, mucus membranes and face. Worse by – night, rest, sitting quietly and during menses.
Better by slow motion, walking slowly and in summer.

3- Ammonium Muriaticum

Ammonium Muriaticum suited to those who are fat and sluggish and with large buttocks, fatty tumors and thin legs. Visceral fat. All mucus secretions are increased and retained. Generally suffering from respiratory troubles and associated affections of liver. Obstinate constipation accompanied by much flatus. Hard, crumbling stools require great effort in expulsion, crumble from the verge of anus.

4- Thyroidinum

Thyroid malfunctioning produces anemia, emaciation, muscular weakness, hyper sweating, tingling and increased heart rate. It exerts great influence over goiter and excessive obesity. Acts best in females with paleness and uterine fibroids or mammary tumors. Visceral fat.

5- Antimonium crudum

Obesity in young people with excessive irritability and frightfulness, with a thick white coated tongue. Visceral fat. All the conditions aggravated by heat and cold bathing. Old people with morning diarrhea suddenly become constipated or alternate diarrhea and constipation, pulse hard and rapid, Sensitive to cold (After taking cold. Child is frightful, peevish, cannot bear to be touched or looked at, sulky, and does not wish to speak or be spoken to, angry at every little attention).

Great sadness, with weeping. Likes acidic/sour foods and pickles. Almost always has gastric and intestinal problems (diseases) which aggravates from bread, pastry (bakery), acidic/sour food, especially vinegar, sour or bad wine, after cold bathing, over-heating, hot weather.
Better – In open air, during rest, after a warm bath.

6- Graphites for Obesity and it’s Treatment

Tendency to obesity in females with delayed menstruation. Visceral fat. The patients are stout, of fair complexion and tendency to skin diseases and constipation, fat, chilly and costive. Take cold easily, swollen genitals with indurations of tissues.

7- Phytolacca

An important Homeopathic medicine for weight loss. Reduces fat and false growths. It is per-eminently a glandular remedy with glandular swellings –heat and inflammations. Visceral fat.
General soreness, lameness, bruised feeling over whole body causes the patient to groan. Intense prostration, sitting upright makes him faint and dizzy.
Mother tincture is used for Obesity and it’s Treatment.

8- Fucus

A good remedy for obesity and non-toxic goiter (also exophthalmic). Visceral fat. Digestion and flatulence, Obstinate constipation. Thyroid enlargement.

9- Calcarea arsenicum

Fat women with climacteric or approaching menopause. Visceral fat. Chilliness with dropsical affections, uterine cancers, affections of spleen and mesenteric glands are often found associated. Great depression, anxiety, the slightest emotion causes tachycardia and/or bradycardia.

10- Capsicum

Suits nicely those people with lax fibers, weak, diminished vital heat, fat/obese, indolent and have no vital heat or no reactive force. Visceral fat. General uncleanliness of body and opposed to physical exertion. Burning pains and general chilliness with marked tendency to suppuration in every inflammatory process.

11- Phosphorus

Persons of waxy, translucent skin, fair skin, sanguine temperament, delicate eyelashes, find blond or red hair, anemic, young kids growing too rapidly, fair, blondes, quick and hemorrhagic diathesis, quick perceptions, and very sensitive to nature. old people with morning diarrhea. Hemorrhagic diathesis; small wounds bleed profusely from every mucous outlet. Visceral fat.

Likes cold food and drinks,  juicy, refreshing things, ice cream and all these thing makes gastric problems pains to him/her.
As soon as water becomes warm in stomach it is thrown up.
Worse – Evening, before midnight, lying on left or painful side; during a thunderstorm; weather changes, either hot or cold.
Cold air relieves the head and face symptoms but aggravates those of chest, throat and neck.
Better – In the dark; lying on right side; from being rubbed or mesmerized; from cold food, cold water, until it gets warm in stomach.

12- Lac defloratum

Useful in obesity with faulty nutrition. Visceral fat. Sick headaches with intense throbbing, nausea and vomiting; prostration and all complaints aggravated during menses.

13- Kali bichromicum

It is specially indicated for fleshy, fat, light haired complexioned people with scrofulous or syphilitic history. Visceral fat. Symptoms tend to increase in the morning and all pains migrate quickly with rheumatic and gastric symptoms alternating. Catarrhal stage of all mucus membranes.

14- Pulsatilla 

It is per-eminently a female remedy with tendency to obesity in mild, gentle, yielding females who are sad, cry easily and weeps when talking, patient seeks and likes open air where she/he feels better, cold air or cool room, eating or drinking cold things, cold applications.

Thirstlessness and chilliness in fat females, Aversion to fatty foods and still grows obese. Adapted to persons of indecisive, slow, phlegmatic temperament; sandy hair, pale face, easily moved to laughter or tears; affectionate, mild, gentle, timid, Weeps easily (impossible to detail her ailments without weeping), scanty and protracted menstruation. Visceral fat.
Problems/diseases/symptoms worse warm close room; to evening, at twilight; on beginning to move; lying on the left, or on the painless side; with very fatty, indigestible food; pressure on the well side if it be made toward the diseased side; warm applications; heat.

15- Sepia

Obesity in females with weakness, yellow complexion and bearing down sensations. Visceral fat. Pains extend down to back and patient chills easily. Obesity in menopausal females with hot flushes and perspiration.
Particularly sensitive to cold air, “chills so easily;” lack of vital heat, especially in chronic diseases.
Anxiety: with fear, flushes of heat over face and head; about real or imaginary friends; with uterine troubles.
Great sadness and weeping. Dread of being alone; of men; of meeting friends; with uterine troubles.
Indifferent: even to own family; to occupation, to loved ones. Greedy, miserly.
Worse In afternoon or evening; from cold air or dry east wind; sexual excesses; at rest; sultry moist weather; before a thunderstorm.
Better – Warmth of bed, hot applications; violent exercise.

16- Senega

Especially suited for persons of lax fibers who tend to become obese and also to children who are chubby in appearance. Visceral fat. These children usually suffer from repeated respiratory catarrhal affections where rattling cough and profuse mucus, but difficult raising are characteristics.