VAT Trap Blog

Cardiovascular deaths fell 70–80% in sixty years — one of medicine's greatest triumphs. But progress is now slowing. Visceral fat, not LDL-C, is the upstream driver of the four real epidemic diseases: atrial fibrillation, heart failure, type 2 diabetes, and dementia. The VAT-TRAP four-pillar framework addresses all four simultaneously.

For sixty years, sugar escaped blame for heart disease through industry-funded research that targeted dietary fat instead. The fructose pathway driving visceral fat was documented decades ago but never reached public health advice, creating our current metabolic health crisis.