Dr. Michael Greger

I mean, it sounds kind of gross to begin with, but you just find creative ways to include vinegar, and it has significant effects on long-term blood sugar control.

And on fat loss.

And not just any kind of fat loss.

Visceral.

Visceral fat loss.

I mean, people hate that jiggly superficial fat, but that actually has very little metabolic implications.

You can do massive liposuctions on people, get rid of that, get literally over a dozen pounds of that superficial fat, no effect on metabolism, no effect on insulin resistance, no effect on triglycerides, no effect.

If you lost that many pounds of fat period, like if you were doing exercise, you're doing a better diet, you would get tons of benefits.

But that superficial fat that we hate seeing in the mirror, that's not what we should worry about.

It's the internal fat.

Look, if you want it for cosmetic purposes, whatever.

But it's that internal visceral fat called around our organs under the abdominal musculature that's kind of bulging out the belly.

That's the serious stuff.

The good news is your body's smart enough to know that's the most dangerous fat.

And when you lose weight, that's the first fat to go.

So we did preference.

That's why people lose fat.

They're like, why is my arm still jiggly?

I've been losing all this weight.

It's because your body's smart enough to know, look, we'll get there.