Shrink the Fat Around Your Heart

There's a type of fat sitting in direct contact with your heart. Because there's no barrier between it and the heart, it pumps inflammatory molecules — things like interleukin-6 and TNF-alpha — straight onto the heart muscle and the coronary arteries. That local inflammation is part of how this fat drives heart disease [1]. The fat I'm talking about is called epicardial fat. In one large study…