VAT Trap Blog

Fix the food first, then move, then build muscle — and only then reach for drugs, in a sequence chosen to shrink visceral fat and flatten the glucose curve rather than simply to satisfy a cost-effectiveness threshold.

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.