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Until now, the monthly blog and news update you've received from SCVC has carried three different streams of my writing. From this month, two of them are published only here at vat-trap.com.

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A SHORT READ TO START

What's good for the Heart is Good for the Brain

What's Good for the Heart Is Good for the Brain

Cardiovascular risk factors in midlife predict cognitive decline decades later — which means how you care for your heart now shapes how your brain ages.

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Dr Edward Leatham

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FROM THE JOURNAL

Weekly writing on cardiometabolic prevention

The depth layer behind the books — references, figures and technical detail that the printed volumes deliberately leave on the web.

If I Had Type 2 Diabetes

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.

Naked Heart

2 days ago

The Uncharted Universe Within

Appetite suppression is the dominant, well-evidenced mechanism behind GLP-1 and dual GIP/GLP-1 drugs. It is probably most of the story — but a patient losing a stone in six weeks on a sub-licensed dose, with almost no dietary change, sits in the part it does not comfortably explain. The grown-up response to that gap is not to pretend, but to ask better questions. This series asks one of them.

Naked Heart

Jul 1

Visceral Adipose Tissue (VAT) as a Major Modifiable Driver of Cardiometabolic Risk

Two people can share the same weight and BMI yet have completely different risks of heart attack and type 2 diabetes. The difference is often visceral fat — the hidden fat wrapped around your organs. This article explains what it does, why scales miss it, and how to reduce it.

Jun 24

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VAT Trap

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