I've seen a few of your videos, and get the idea of visceral fat degrading muscle - Not just pushing it out, but chemically degrading it. I've gone Carnivore for a few months and will be sprinting, but are there any abdominal exercises that can help strengthen the abdomen wall and reduce sarcopenia, in addition to carnivore and sprinting ? Keen to know if any abdominal exercises could help - OR IN FACT if there's any that could potentially make things WORSE (working wrong muscle groups, etc). Thoughts?
Hombre….abdominal exercises for abs NOT to stop sarcopenia. Stopping sarcopenia takes eliminating visceral fat not a whitewash or bandaid approach focusing on abs. Focus on whole body health - eliminate visceral fat and your entire body not just your stomach will read: “start a family with me” or “I hunt well”
@DrSeanOMara I get that, but what I mean is, are there exercises to do that can strenghten the abs AS WELL as the other stuff? I've already: - Gone 95% carnivore 95% (carnivore with some ferments - mostly homemade) - Started climbing again after 15 years (good workout but also coordination) - Joined a gym for some full body workouts - Starting walking with short sprints (up hill) I'm listening ;) And doing all this. I just wondered if ab exercises could help rebuild the muscles at the same time as burning visceral fat? Like, WITHOUT any abs exercises, will the abs muscles that visceral fat has degraded recover and restrengthen? Could ads exercises help? (in addition to whole body, whole health)? BTW diet is carnivore, grass fed (completely, 100% grass fed), organic eggs, and some ferments. Sometimes grass fed lamb when I fancy a change. RARELY cheese (like, a Bit, once a week at most, and only small amounts). On top of all of the above, I've also changed from a sat-down job (digital marketing) to turning a hobby into a job (a more active one - I'm a trained Blacksmith, so have started an artist Blacksmith biz... Swinging hammers onto hot metal for hours a day, stood up, rather than sitting at a PC). So between the 4 months carnivore (and ferments), changing desktop for Blacksmithing, going to gym 2 to 3 days a week, re-starting climbing after 15 years off, and just starting walking with sprints... I'm trying to cover off the general health :) Just looking for ideas to help the core, too, and wondering if it'll help rebuild muscle there whilst I reduce visceral fat, too :)
Yup am already carnivore for 4 months now (except some ferments), doing exercises (climbing, gym, walk and sprint). Just wondered if exercises to strengthen the core could help, too? Cheers re: Planks! I'll add some in :) @@keithzastrow
I’ve been an RN for 40 years, I have a degree in science and everything you discuss are concerns of mine that no one addresses. You’re fantastic, thank you!
You are very welcome. However that no one else is addressing is a two edged sword sword. Most who encounter me also readily dismiss me & my content bc no one else is saying it. Our species has lost our ability to assess guidance for harm/ benefit and simply try/test it out. Those who try my free strategies change their lives for the better yet sadly most won’t even try. It’s like they are just casually reading or watching interesting content. Hey YOU reading this….get your butt up right now and get optimizing your life 👊
You have the best health info of anyone I have listened to. Thank you and please kept your info coming. I am 72 and a woman that was over 200 lbs and could hardly walk. I have lost 70 lbs and I am sprinting around the house and yard because of you! Love you and all of your info!
I was also 200 lb., female, now weigh 120. Exercise daily. I used to be taller, now I am 5’3/4”. Don’t miss my arthritis as it is GONE! We eat deliciously, but it no longer makes us fat. My husband is a vegetarian now, but I am thinner, being a vegan. I exercise more than he does. But he goes to the gym also now.
Dr. Sean, you are so inspirational and have done amazing things for me by following your advice. 64 yo women who took up sprinting this summer and will never stop! I'm stronger than I've been for 20+ years. Thank you and never doubt your videos are life changing plus, I never get tired of hearing the message over and over because that helps me stay focused.
I am a 67yo guy and I took up sprinting this past summer myself ! I've been loosely following the 7 free strategies that Dr O'Mara gives us. I'm stronger than ever before! My tendons and joints feel like iron bands. I try to sprint every day. I use the Captains of Crush grips (80 lb and 100lb). My sprints usually are 60- 100 yds. I run 6 to 8 of them. Sometimes I'll sprint uphill. I eat beef and ferments, but I have to go easy on the ferments, only once a week----- I can't moderate my intake of them. Thank you Dr O'Mara!
Dr OMara, you are brilliant!! Finally a Doctor speaking truth that allows people to get well instead of going on more medication!!! I ❤️ to sprint again.... makes me feel like a kid at 58. ☺️☺️
I do sometimes kicking of a boxing pear. It is quite demanding in terms of energy per time spend. 2 or 3 min and you are exhausted. Might be good fo those who have no room for sprinting
I'm a phisician following clinical activity of insulin for years, yours is such a practical approach. I'm optimizing myself too, and my patients, lack mri 😅 but clinically is so evident when one feels and as you say look and perform better. Gracias!
When I saw that top picture I thought "how did you get a picture of me?" Ive been clean Keto (near carnivore) for over 4 years. Lost 75 lbs, do some sprinting, but I still have have the caved in abdomen.
Had a good laugh. Switched to only doing sprints on my Peleton bike, i com0letely stop pedaling on the rest periods, and go hell bent for leather on the sprints. Its actually working, waist is smaller. Cut cardio back to 20 min each day, after 1hr of weights. Longer rests between sets too.
I’m on a limited budget and don’t see the point splashing out on an MRI…I know I have visceral fat. I’d rather spend on the best the best grass fed meat I can get. Am following your dietary advice, added ferments and working up to sprints having been inactive for a long time. Am noticing my stomach softening and more tone appearing in arms etc. long way to go but getting there. This time next year should hit my goals. Thanks Dr O’M!
Thanks for this test Dr Sean. I was pleasantly surprised...I'm pretty much flat, maybe an 1/8" of rib ridge showing. I am almost 72, 6.5 months carnivore, and I work in the yard, cut trees on the property, unload trucks at the food ministry, and use a self propelled mower on a sloped yard...that's my exercise.
Dr Sean!! I love and adore you!!! I have worked in the medical field forever. Pharmacy 20 years and Insurance 20 years... The "dont call me unless you think your body is the most important thing" is priceless and just about the most important thing said today! Love it love it love it🎉🎉 In mom words...get your ass in gear and stop F'in around with your health!❤😂❤😂❤ Love you!
Thank you Dr Sean! I’m following your content in Australia and speaking with all my change desiring friends, encouraging them to subscribe to you. I’ve dropped 18kg in the past 24 months and become fit and healthy, which starts conversations with my cohort of 50 ish year old friends. Hearing your message of sprinting and taking on increasing our VO2max is something worthwhile to all of humanity and please keep your motivation to inform us dummies as strong as you look!
I've been eating ferments, grass fed steak and eggs every single day since finding your channel. I can see body fat dropping and muscle tone going up working out about 3 days a week. I've also been eating within a 6 hour eating window. I'd like to hear what you have to say about prolonged fasting and intermittent fasting.
@@J.o.e_KAwesome reply. Spot on. 👍 I eat sauerkraut, kimchi, sardines, grass fed beef, and eggs everyday. That plus strength training and cardio and a good nights sleep and everything works out nicely.
I IF by accident, but extended fast periodically to heal chronic health issues. EF is like peeling the layers of an onion. With each session my body heals at a deeper level.
@@J.o.e_KI used IF extensively when losing weight and now do 4-5 meals a day to lean bulk but extended fasting (1 day no food per week so up to 48 hours fast) to cut back. The key to preventing muscle loss with fasting is to train fasted and then eat a significant amount of protein when you break your fast. Dr. Jason Fung has a lot of good data on this. If you eat "slow" protein from meat and avoid carbs your digestion system will actually slow down in order to prolong muscle protein synthesis. But yes, IF every day with not enough protein can lead to muscle loss. Your growth hormone actually shoots up with fasting so you can capitalise on that with good diet (high protein and fat to support hormones, lower carb).
I am 180lbs. 22% body fat according to my scale. I use a Withings scale. Not sure how accurate it is. Definitely need to find a place to get an MRI next.
I’m a 69 year old female, have been on Carnivore and fermented foods, have lost weight and now down to a good weight. I haven’t had an MRI, but I am sure I have visceral fat so I’m working on that. I joined a gym because it helps me through the winter months and I’m walking on the treadmill at an incline at present and eventually I hope to get to the sprinting speed, but now I’m going at it gradually so I don’t injure myself. I’m also lifting weights. I think your work is extremely important because most people just focus on the fat they can see and the true danger is the internal fat. Thank you for all you do!
Love your videos! Love your candor! THank you for being there and keepin ON, Dr. Sean! Keep on with Dr. Sean! Hey... new tagline? DO. IT. Keep on with Dr. Sean!
Luv u Doctor Sean, wish I could afford to come see you, but I have been following your advice with sprints and cutting out excessive cardio. Feel great 😊
You mentioned the term, “health conscious physician”. Sad that health conscious is not implied for all physicians. Thanks for all of the videos and your example.
Dr OMara, 3 yr 3mths keto, eliminated 65 lbs & metabolic syndrome: now 24.0 bmi, 12% body fat. This video, and your others' msg tells me to focus more on visceral fat symptoms which I'm addressing thru more sprinting less cardio, more resistance training, more protein in diet. Been executing this "plan" with good results and will continue. Thank you for this, you've helped me learn how to elevate my potential even though we're at similar ages. Btw, a bit of David Goggins shouting off the pages or in my ears helps me too! Stay Hard!
❤ BMI sometimes does not give a representative result ( when person is too tall). How did you measure 12 % body fat? Please state. Result is always dependent on method and can vary within 10 percent.
@@Dalian-Dalian Yes, aware of limitations of using BMI as a health marker (for example a muscled person such as a muscle builder can easily slip over "normal" ranges). Yet, clearly, I knew when I was once 30+ BMI I was unhealthy (protruding belly), now I get compliments and wear size 32 waist pants. Re % body fat, good q, I use a Smart Scale by Wyze (Wyze Scale X). In this case for % body fat I don't care at all about absolute #, I care about relative #, can I move the needle down: if yes then good else bad. Very simple. Same applies to variety of other metrics, I don't even care about weight, ketones, base metabolic rate, etc. because of their variability, just their trend. Good points you make that people shouldn't harp on metrics despite the propensity for treating #s as gospel. I also don't need any magic numbers to tell me how I feel by ridding myself of metabolic syndrome, I used to wake up with severe hand and joint pain, now, nothing, absolutely nothing. And I'm not young. For better or for worse, when we go through our routine checkups that's when a 1-time snapshot of our health is determined from metrics that are questionable in terms of relevance and accuracy the day taken, but that's all we have to go by.
Thanks, doctor! Really sound advice. I have followed some of these for a while, including blood donations. I feel better with improved mental clarity and mood, increased focus at work, and genreally improved life quality. 55 years old male office worker, formerly obese. Amazing weight loss party due to carnivore diet, I am now at 75 Kg which I was back in high school. 40 minute power walk, sprinting and cold shower as part of my daily routine. After this vid, I will go and get some hand grippers and start doing planks.
What can I expect from my abdominal muscles? I’m 57 I’ve had two C-sections vertically up to the bellybutton. Followed by myomectomy, followed by a hernia at the incision and now I have a mesh there. I’ve been mostly me low-carb for almost 2 years. I’ve lost 60 pounds. I’m off my blood pressure medication and I joined the Y so I can sprint in the winter and lift weights.
I like that you make original content, and don't just parrot a version of what everyone else is doing. I think you are overlooking the effect of disc shrinkage in the lumbar spine on the appearance of the abdomen in older people.
Just saw Sean Baker’s review of the LMHR study and at the very least cholesterol is not working the way think. My cholesterol has gone up since I’ve changed my lifestyle and I feel 30 years younger. Thanks for all you do!
Thanks for the encouragement hombre but I can’t even stand that you even mentioned @shawnBaker still talking that trash. Time the other carnivore physicians realize they are being played. F cholesterol until your visceral fat is gone it’s just distracting you at best and maybe killing you.
@@DrSeanOMarai think you don't understand dr baker's position. He never thought cholesterol was causal, he is just acknowledging the medical guidelines. He has always said he suspected cholesterol wasn't an issue in a metabolically healthy person. It's Peter Attia who is all in re cholesterol being causal.
Sean, while I applaud your efforts, getting the MRI is not going to change what the ultimate plan should be to get rid of visceral fat. When I was an ICU nurse (RN) that was always what was discussed when contemplating ordering imaging: Is ordering the test going to in any way change the management of the patient (of what the current plan was)? If the answer was no then we almost never ordered it. Keep reminding everyone what they need to DO to reduce their visceral fat. Most people simply are not going to shell out the $$$$$$ for an MRI that again, is not going to change the outcome.
Been doing this 13 years Keith showing people their MRI to illustrate visceral fat, human marbling, heart fat after 25 years of mostly just numbers from labs. . NOTHING Nothing NoThIIng NOTHing notTHING NothIng NoThIng nothing nothing nothing nothing NoTHinG NOTHING NOTHING NOTHING nothing nothing nothing changes people motivates people better than staring at all the disease the see inside them from an MRI. Have you even one time seen a patient actually see their visceral fat in an MRI even once or is just what you think would think would be the case? Hopefully I make the point here well enough that my experience based on my thousands of patients experience has formed a powerful conviction.
If a doctor like yourself truthfully shows the MRI and connects visceral fat with the diseases and stands by it like you then yes this would be 100 percent helpful. That includes real solutions to get rid of/lower it. Got to be a doctor who isn't a pill pusher (metformin, meds for cholesterol, meds for blood pressure) or one that says eat using the pyramid etc. Connection to the MRI pic to diseases and real ways that help is all the key.
Interesting that you mentioned dentist. Something you may want to look at that can help with visceral fat. It’s called xylitol. Mainly used for healthy teeth but one major study showed it suppressed visceral fa accumulation.
44yo male. Medically Retired EMT/FireFighter. 240lbs down to 175lbs. Changed my diet. Stopped drinking alcohol and started walking 10k steps a day. Off bp meds and statins. Was having orthostatic hypotension and intermittent chest pain. Stress test, Echo and angiogram all came back good so they say. Just had 3 mris on my spine and one on my shoulder last week. I’d like to know what my visceral fat is. The drs didn’t mention it. Just all the herniated disc, pinched nerves, hemangiomas and torn rotator cuff. I’ll find out what the drs recommended next week. I went from a size 40 jeans to a 34 with room. Got my wife and daughter walking also. We’re trying to improve our quality of life. We’ve had health problems for so long. It was time for change. Our diet still needs help. We’re working on it. Thanks for your videos. I’m in the Upper Peninsula Michigan. Shane.
Try to obtain a copy of your mri scan at vertebra L4 or L5 and look for visceral fat on your own. Study Dr omara’s videos with the mri examples. It’s pretty easy to tell where the fat is located. If you get another mri down the road you could compare them and see how your strategies are working.
Sean, I have been carnivore for about 5 months (grass fed beef mostly), and ate all organic my entire life, with lots of real saurkraut and fermented veggies, and the last 2 years before carni, I was Keto on and off. But I still get bloated from the fermented veggies - but still OK to eat?? (I am also very dairy intolerant. Even goat kefir etc.). Thanks!
Hello Dr O’Mara, I could be wrong about this, but as far as I can tell, most bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites feed on sugars and carbohydrates. Eating low carb means less infections, less colds and flu’s and less vulnerability to fungal infections because these organisms have less to eat. Am I correct about this?
Your enthusiasm is infectious and I've learned a lot from your videos. BUT, I can't circle this square with scalloped look when lying down. My core muscle strength is at the 95th percentile among male population, yet don't pass your test. Maybe you can elaborate how you can be so certain about sarcopenia based on one test.
Thankfully my belly looked more like the one at the bottom and I'm 70. This tip saved me money on an MRI Sean, what do you think of Arnold's current physique, maybe an unfair question but interesting
Might as well face it, I'm addicted to sprinting. Thinking about racing this coming spring and summer at the local all-comers track meets. 100 and 200 meter races!
I saw your recent podcast with Dr. Ashley Lucas and I loved it! This episode has me confused. I did the MyPhD weight loss program, 72 years old, lost 35 lbs, 173-75 lbs, 5' 10", now a 34 inch waist, slim clothes, feeling really good! I am maintaining my weight range, eating protein and good vegetables. When I began the MyPhD program, my abdomen was extended. Now, it sags and I thought that was good! When I stand I can see my abdomen muscles are weak, the abdomen does protrude a bit. I am exercising, HIIT and strength.. You are saying here that Sarcopenia says I have excess visceral fat, Tanita scale has me at 13 visceral fat rating. Am I missing something important here?
Excellent advice. I am going to implement the sprinting into my workout. Since I have never sprinted l, how should I start and for long? You look fantastic.... I would have guessed late forties. I want to look like that and I think adding sprinting could be the key. Sets and how long, please.
just noticed he has a lot of arm hair LOL. On a more serious note, he looks so good for a 60 year old, and I saw from another of his videos how he used to look. He's in the best shape of his life. I've got a new role model-Dr Sean O'mara!
Hi, I am new to you. I found you from the interview on the 5 Minute Body channel. I have been looking through your videos to get a better understanding of exactly what the sprinting workout would look like. (I am already keto leaning ketovore and eat clean. I want to implement the fitness piece that I have been neglecting) I can't tell if you mean just sprint for 10 seconds and then I am finished with the workout. Or if you mean to do it more as a HIIT workout.... sprint, walk, sprint, walk for about 10 minutes or so total. Also I am not that comfortable about the sprinting because I get some occassional twinges in my right knee. But I have an elliptical machine and I can sprint on it without bothering my knee. But it seems silly just to get on it for a 20 second sprint and then call it a day. So I am hoping you can provide more info on what the exercise routine would look like along with some alternate ideas.
On average, he says, sprints 15 seconds, but alternate each day. 2 sprints, 4 sprints in different intervals or whatever. 1 minute sprint is a maximum interval.
Every one of those influencers are selling something. Some book, some counseling. medical services etc. People know by instinct what is healthy. The problem is that society in general exists to convince you that what you see and know is wrong isn't. ignore, cancel and cover op the problem instead of getting to the meat of the matter.
I would like to build back the subcutaneous fat right under the skin. I’m single digit body fat but being old my skin is like paper so I look like a mummy. Stomach vacuums reduced my waist size to below that i had in high school.
Some folks are claiming carnivore diet would not give enough nitric oxide as no leafy greens. Besides the sun, where can we get nitric oxide in our diet?
Plenty of nitrates in meat for conversion to NO endogenously. The bigger problem is not nitrate/nitrite sourcing but adequate health for NO production.
Hey Doc thanks for your videos. I just found you through a podcast and I‘m absolutely amazed by your theory. I want to start with sprinting but was wondering if one could also just do sprint in place from home? Or does it necessarily have to be outside with a distance?
I took a look at Caroline Labouchere's blog and she is low calorie, lots of cardio. She is on HRT. It makes a difference. If you go on hrt before perimenopause spins you into 30+ pounds of fat gain and adjust your diet you are in a good place. But if you come at it a little later after the weight gain, hrt is no magic bullet. Menopause makes women fat. Fat tissue makes estrogen. I am sure that sprinting and low carb is not enough to reduce visceral fat in menopausal women as a n=1 experiment. Fasting for days helps for sure but then you end up with high cortisol and that takes it toll. It takes a lot to lose 5 pounds once you hit perimenopause/menopause. I am even doing hrt. It's frustrating. I am going to go back to multiple day fasting and buy a wig.
Nitric oxide? I listened to your interview on 5-minute body and you mentioned nitric oxide but I can't remember what you said and I can't find it on the video?
Doc Sean. What besides the body lift exercise you have shown would you recomment to get the strength and tone back in the abdominal. I'm 64 and the sitting lift is way way way to advanced for me. It hurts my thumbs to even try and I weigh too much to make it doable. What others would you recommend?
sorry, I saw your response above. I am trying all the things you talk about. Diet, sun, sauna, sprinting, etc; I just want to add to strengthen my abdominals without messing up my lower back.
Dr O'Hara, I'd love to see a epic directed towards mom's with a baby belly. I've have 5 children and am losing weight, but the stretched skin is an issue.
Thank you Dr. Sean Where is a healthy range of Creatine Kinase? Should the 3 types of CK be differentiated with regular testing, to know which types of muscle are most endangered from visceral fat? If so, with what kind of inflammatory fatty acids an elevated CK would be related? I m trying now get an MRI, but it looks like even private institutions are not interested in earning money from self paying clients, and I want to start meat/fermented foods now, but also want to get a precise picture of the starting point.
Dr.Sean, regarding 2 photos of gut. I would not agree here. If gut looks caved in when lying, this might mean also that guy is just empty( on a fast or had a stool recently) while other guy is a flat (;muscles are over full of juice from meat) However, this point observing gut shape is importantespecially when standing. If bulged gut, yes for sure is either gas, VF or just overeating or gut muscles just weak.
I am following what you are saying to do. I have been an active runner for a couple of years, but over the past four months I was able to run a golf course fairways where I was. 18 holes on even days and 9 hole on odd, but when running on the odd days I would sprint as hard as possible the fairway(100 to 200 yds) and walk the greens & tee box. Can I continue this or just Sprint every other day?
ok, thanks, working hard, sprinting, weight lifting, pushups, dips, pullups, fasting and following 7 of the steps you outlined, stopped processed foods, seed oils, sugar 2 years ago, eating , 150 grams protein a day, fermented foods to feed the gut, sun, walking around barefoot in short pants and shirt leaves in the winter taking sauna's. I am anxious to lower visual fat as much as possible. Love your messages and videos. @@DrSeanOMara
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I've seen a few of your videos, and get the idea of visceral fat degrading muscle - Not just pushing it out, but chemically degrading it. I've gone Carnivore for a few months and will be sprinting, but are there any abdominal exercises that can help strengthen the abdomen wall and reduce sarcopenia, in addition to carnivore and sprinting ?
Keen to know if any abdominal exercises could help - OR IN FACT if there's any that could potentially make things WORSE (working wrong muscle groups, etc).
Thoughts?
Hombre….abdominal exercises for abs NOT to stop sarcopenia. Stopping sarcopenia takes eliminating visceral fat not a whitewash or bandaid approach focusing on abs. Focus on whole body health - eliminate visceral fat and your entire body not just your stomach will read: “start a family with me” or “I hunt well”
What Sean says and also do planks to strengthen the abdominal muscles.....but Sean is right: Diet has to be the #1 thing you focus on.
@DrSeanOMara
I get that, but what I mean is, are there exercises to do that can strenghten the abs AS WELL as the other stuff?
I've already:
- Gone 95% carnivore 95% (carnivore with some ferments - mostly homemade)
- Started climbing again after 15 years (good workout but also coordination)
- Joined a gym for some full body workouts
- Starting walking with short sprints (up hill)
I'm listening ;) And doing all this. I just wondered if ab exercises could help rebuild the muscles at the same time as burning visceral fat? Like, WITHOUT any abs exercises, will the abs muscles that visceral fat has degraded recover and restrengthen? Could ads exercises help? (in addition to whole body, whole health)?
BTW diet is carnivore, grass fed (completely, 100% grass fed), organic eggs, and some ferments. Sometimes grass fed lamb when I fancy a change. RARELY cheese (like, a Bit, once a week at most, and only small amounts).
On top of all of the above, I've also changed from a sat-down job (digital marketing) to turning a hobby into a job (a more active one - I'm a trained Blacksmith, so have started an artist Blacksmith biz... Swinging hammers onto hot metal for hours a day, stood up, rather than sitting at a PC).
So between the 4 months carnivore (and ferments), changing desktop for Blacksmithing, going to gym 2 to 3 days a week, re-starting climbing after 15 years off, and just starting walking with sprints... I'm trying to cover off the general health :) Just looking for ideas to help the core, too, and wondering if it'll help rebuild muscle there whilst I reduce visceral fat, too :)
Yup am already carnivore for 4 months now (except some ferments), doing exercises (climbing, gym, walk and sprint).
Just wondered if exercises to strengthen the core could help, too?
Cheers re: Planks! I'll add some in :)
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@@mikegracia1475fantastic progress🎉🎉🎉! Super awesome! Keep going.
I’ve been an RN for 40 years, I have a degree in science and everything you discuss are concerns of mine that no one addresses. You’re fantastic, thank you!
You are very welcome. However that no one else is addressing is a two edged sword sword. Most who encounter me also readily dismiss me & my content bc no one else is saying it. Our species has lost our ability to assess guidance for harm/ benefit and simply try/test it out. Those who try my free strategies change their lives for the better yet sadly most won’t even try. It’s like they are just casually reading or watching interesting content. Hey YOU reading this….get your butt up right now and get optimizing your life 👊
You have the best health info of anyone I have listened to. Thank you and please kept your info coming. I am 72 and a woman that was over 200 lbs and could hardly walk. I have lost 70 lbs and I am sprinting around the house and yard because of you! Love you and all of your info!
I was also 200 lb., female, now weigh 120. Exercise daily. I used to be taller, now I am 5’3/4”. Don’t miss my arthritis as it is GONE! We eat deliciously, but it no longer makes us fat. My husband is a vegetarian now, but I am thinner, being a vegan. I exercise more than he does. But he goes to the gym also now.
Dr. Sean O'Mara. I want to thank you so much for all your support! Your precise and accurate communication is priceless.
Dr. Sean, you are so inspirational and have done amazing things for me by following your advice. 64 yo women who took up sprinting this summer and will never stop! I'm stronger than I've been for 20+ years. Thank you and never doubt your videos are life changing plus, I never get tired of hearing the message over and over because that helps me stay focused.
I am a 67yo guy and I took up sprinting this past summer myself ! I've been loosely following the 7 free strategies that Dr O'Mara gives us. I'm stronger than ever before! My tendons and joints feel like iron bands. I try to sprint every day. I use the Captains of Crush grips (80 lb and 100lb). My sprints usually are 60- 100 yds. I run 6 to 8 of them. Sometimes I'll sprint uphill. I eat beef and ferments, but I have to go easy on the ferments, only once a week----- I can't moderate my intake of them. Thank you Dr O'Mara!
Dr OMara, you are brilliant!! Finally a Doctor speaking truth that allows people to get well instead of going on more medication!!! I ❤️ to sprint again.... makes me feel like a kid at 58. ☺️☺️
I do sometimes kicking of a boxing pear. It is quite demanding in terms of energy per time spend. 2 or 3 min and you are exhausted. Might be good fo those who have no room for sprinting
I'm a phisician following clinical activity of insulin for years, yours is such a practical approach. I'm optimizing myself too, and my patients, lack mri 😅 but clinically is so evident when one feels and as you say look and perform better. Gracias!
Great video Dr. O’Mara. Perfectly said! Cholesterol isn’t the problem with arteries, it’s the visceral fat! ☺️
Inflammation too.
When I saw that top picture I thought "how did you get a picture of me?" Ive been clean Keto (near carnivore) for over 4 years. Lost 75 lbs, do some sprinting, but I still have have the caved in abdomen.
Let’s Go ….you got this thomas!👊
Maybe try carnivore. Or 10-20 gram.carbs only.
Had a good laugh. Switched to only doing sprints on my Peleton bike, i com0letely stop pedaling on the rest periods, and go hell bent for leather on the sprints. Its actually working, waist is smaller. Cut cardio back to 20 min each day, after 1hr of weights. Longer rests between sets too.
Thanks again, Dr. O'Mara.
You are an amazing resource!! 💯🔥💪🏾
I’m on a limited budget and don’t see the point splashing out on an MRI…I know I have visceral fat. I’d rather spend on the best the best grass fed meat I can get. Am following your dietary advice, added ferments and working up to sprints having been inactive for a long time. Am noticing my stomach softening and more tone appearing in arms etc. long way to go but getting there. This time next year should hit my goals. Thanks Dr O’M!
Thanks for this test Dr Sean. I was pleasantly surprised...I'm pretty much flat, maybe an 1/8" of rib ridge showing. I am almost 72, 6.5 months carnivore, and I work in the yard, cut trees on the property, unload trucks at the food ministry, and use a self propelled mower on a sloped yard...that's my exercise.
Bravo, Doc - just flipping that made everything visible. Your commitment to providing info that’s usable is top notch. Appreciate you!
Thank you for this video!
That was informative. I really appreciate the discussion about the corolative visual signs that indicate the state of one's health.
Dr Sean!! I love and adore you!!! I have worked in the medical field forever. Pharmacy 20 years and Insurance 20 years...
The "dont call me unless you think your body is the most important thing" is priceless and just about the most important thing said today! Love it love it love it🎉🎉
In mom words...get your ass in gear and stop F'in around with your health!❤😂❤😂❤ Love you!
Glad you follow me really soooo glad 👊👊👊
the audio is much better than older videos
Thank you Dr Sean! I’m following your content in Australia and speaking with all my change desiring friends, encouraging them to subscribe to you. I’ve dropped 18kg in the past 24 months and become fit and healthy, which starts conversations with my cohort of 50 ish year old friends. Hearing your message of sprinting and taking on increasing our VO2max is something worthwhile to all of humanity and please keep your motivation to inform us dummies as strong as you look!
Where's the video of dr. Sean talking on VO2max?
Love your content!! Thank you!
I've been eating ferments, grass fed steak and eggs every single day since finding your channel. I can see body fat dropping and muscle tone going up working out about 3 days a week. I've also been eating within a 6 hour eating window. I'd like to hear what you have to say about prolonged fasting and intermittent fasting.
@@J.o.e_KAwesome reply. Spot on. 👍 I eat sauerkraut, kimchi, sardines, grass fed beef, and eggs everyday. That plus strength training and cardio and a good nights sleep and everything works out nicely.
@@J.o.e_Kyour full of it pal mind your on business cream puff
I IF by accident, but extended fast periodically to heal chronic health issues. EF is like peeling the layers of an onion. With each session my body heals at a deeper level.
@@J.o.e_KI used IF extensively when losing weight and now do 4-5 meals a day to lean bulk but extended fasting (1 day no food per week so up to 48 hours fast) to cut back. The key to preventing muscle loss with fasting is to train fasted and then eat a significant amount of protein when you break your fast. Dr. Jason Fung has a lot of good data on this. If you eat "slow" protein from meat and avoid carbs your digestion system will actually slow down in order to prolong muscle protein synthesis. But yes, IF every day with not enough protein can lead to muscle loss. Your growth hormone actually shoots up with fasting so you can capitalise on that with good diet (high protein and fat to support hormones, lower carb).
I am 180lbs. 22% body fat according to my scale. I use a Withings scale. Not sure how accurate it is. Definitely need to find a place to get an MRI next.
I’m a 69 year old female, have been on Carnivore and fermented foods, have lost weight and now down to a good weight. I haven’t had an MRI, but I am sure I have visceral fat so I’m working on that. I joined a gym because it helps me through the winter months and I’m walking on the treadmill at an incline at present and eventually I hope to get to the sprinting speed, but now I’m going at it gradually so I don’t injure myself. I’m also lifting weights. I think your work is extremely important because most people just focus on the fat they can see and the true danger is the internal fat. Thank you for all you do!
Thanks Dr. Sean for another informative and inspiring video! I love it. God Bless you.
Love your videos! Love your candor! THank you for being there and keepin ON, Dr. Sean! Keep on with Dr. Sean! Hey... new tagline? DO. IT. Keep on with Dr. Sean!
i agree with that 100%!!! thank you for the GOOD INFORMATION OUT THERE !!
I love this channel
Glad you do.
Maybe we could ask! to turn on the Hungarian subtitles as well?? A very valuable topic. You have to reach a lot of people. Thanks!
Thank you Dr. OMara, you are very helpful and I appreciate your candid way of speaking. Keep creating informative and helpful content, you’re great!
Luv u Doctor Sean, wish I could afford to come see you, but I have been following your advice with sprints and cutting out excessive cardio. Feel great 😊
You mentioned the term, “health conscious physician”. Sad that health conscious is not implied for all physicians. Thanks for all of the videos and your example.
Boom 👊 so true man. It keeps me up at night over that!
I don’t measure anything, just follow a lot of the strategies that you mention. Feels good.
Dr OMara, 3 yr 3mths keto, eliminated 65 lbs & metabolic syndrome: now 24.0 bmi, 12% body fat. This video, and your others' msg tells me to focus more on visceral fat symptoms which I'm addressing thru more sprinting less cardio, more resistance training, more protein in diet. Been executing this "plan" with good results and will continue. Thank you for this, you've helped me learn how to elevate my potential even though we're at similar ages. Btw, a bit of David Goggins shouting off the pages or in my ears helps me too! Stay Hard!
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❤ BMI sometimes does not give a representative result ( when person is too tall). How did you measure 12 % body fat? Please state. Result is always dependent on method and can vary within 10 percent.
@@Dalian-Dalian Yes, aware of limitations of using BMI as a health marker (for example a muscled person such as a muscle builder can easily slip over "normal" ranges). Yet, clearly, I knew when I was once 30+ BMI I was unhealthy (protruding belly), now I get compliments and wear size 32 waist pants. Re % body fat, good q, I use a Smart Scale by Wyze (Wyze Scale X). In this case for % body fat I don't care at all about absolute #, I care about relative #, can I move the needle down: if yes then good else bad. Very simple. Same applies to variety of other metrics, I don't even care about weight, ketones, base metabolic rate, etc. because of their variability, just their trend. Good points you make that people shouldn't harp on metrics despite the propensity for treating #s as gospel. I also don't need any magic numbers to tell me how I feel by ridding myself of metabolic syndrome, I used to wake up with severe hand and joint pain, now, nothing, absolutely nothing. And I'm not young. For better or for worse, when we go through our routine checkups that's when a 1-time snapshot of our health is determined from metrics that are questionable in terms of relevance and accuracy the day taken, but that's all we have to go by.
Well, you certainly crushed it today, Dr, O’Mara!👍
Pun intended? 😂
Absolutely!😅
Thanks, doctor! Really sound advice. I have followed some of these for a while, including blood donations. I feel better with improved mental clarity and mood, increased focus at work, and genreally improved life quality. 55 years old male office worker, formerly obese. Amazing weight loss party due to carnivore diet, I am now at 75 Kg which I was back in high school. 40 minute power walk, sprinting and cold shower as part of my daily routine. After this vid, I will go and get some hand grippers and start doing planks.
And LOVE your new hairdo!
Thanks so helpful!
It’s all about mid line anatomy - keep that mid line strong 💪🏻
What can I expect from my abdominal muscles? I’m 57 I’ve had two C-sections vertically up to the bellybutton. Followed by myomectomy, followed by a hernia at the incision and now I have a mesh there.
I’ve been mostly me low-carb for almost 2 years. I’ve lost 60 pounds. I’m off my blood pressure medication and I joined the Y so I can sprint in the winter and lift weights.
Thank you! ❤
Even more refined definition of health is simply metabolic flexability.
OMG I'm never even going to SAY the "C" word again after being scolded by your video 😂
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I'm 2 weeks into your plan. Thank you
I like that you make original content, and don't just parrot a version of what everyone else is doing. I think you are overlooking the effect of disc shrinkage in the lumbar spine on the appearance of the abdomen in older people.
Just saw Sean Baker’s review of the LMHR study and at the very least cholesterol is not working the way think. My cholesterol has gone up since I’ve changed my lifestyle and I feel 30 years younger. Thanks for all you do!
Thanks for the encouragement hombre but I can’t even stand that you even mentioned @shawnBaker still talking that trash. Time the other carnivore physicians realize they are being played. F cholesterol until your visceral fat is gone it’s just distracting you at best and maybe killing you.
@@DrSeanOMarai think you don't understand dr baker's position. He never thought cholesterol was causal, he is just acknowledging the medical guidelines. He has always said he suspected cholesterol wasn't an issue in a metabolically healthy person.
It's Peter Attia who is all in re cholesterol being causal.
Sean, while I applaud your efforts, getting the MRI is not going to change what the ultimate plan should be to get rid of visceral fat. When I was an ICU nurse (RN) that was always what was discussed when contemplating ordering imaging: Is ordering the test going to in any way change the management of the patient (of what the current plan was)? If the answer was no then we almost never ordered it. Keep reminding everyone what they need to DO to reduce their visceral fat. Most people simply are not going to shell out the $$$$$$ for an MRI that again, is not going to change the outcome.
Been doing this 13 years Keith showing people their MRI to illustrate visceral fat, human marbling, heart fat after 25 years of mostly just numbers from labs. . NOTHING Nothing NoThIIng NOTHing notTHING NothIng NoThIng nothing nothing nothing nothing NoTHinG NOTHING NOTHING NOTHING nothing nothing nothing changes people motivates people better than staring at all the disease the see inside them from an MRI. Have you even one time seen a patient actually see their visceral fat in an MRI even once or is just what you think would think would be the case? Hopefully I make the point here well enough that my experience based on my thousands of patients experience has formed a powerful conviction.
If a doctor like yourself truthfully shows the MRI and connects visceral fat with the diseases and stands by it like you then yes this would be 100 percent helpful. That includes real solutions to get rid of/lower it. Got to be a doctor who isn't a pill pusher (metformin, meds for cholesterol, meds for blood pressure) or one that says eat using the pyramid etc. Connection to the MRI pic to diseases and real ways that help is all the key.
He’s funny @9:43 😂😂
Interesting that you mentioned dentist. Something you may want to look at that can help with visceral fat. It’s called xylitol. Mainly used for healthy teeth but one major study showed it suppressed visceral fa accumulation.
44yo male. Medically Retired EMT/FireFighter. 240lbs down to 175lbs. Changed my diet. Stopped drinking alcohol and started walking 10k steps a day. Off bp meds and statins. Was having orthostatic hypotension and intermittent chest pain. Stress test, Echo and angiogram all came back good so they say. Just had 3 mris on my spine and one on my shoulder last week. I’d like to know what my visceral fat is. The drs didn’t mention it. Just all the herniated disc, pinched nerves, hemangiomas and torn rotator cuff. I’ll find out what the drs recommended next week. I went from a size 40 jeans to a 34 with room. Got my wife and daughter walking also. We’re trying to improve our quality of life. We’ve had health problems for so long. It was time for change. Our diet still needs help. We’re working on it. Thanks for your videos. I’m in the Upper Peninsula Michigan. Shane.
Don’t hold your breath for ANY doctor to read visceral fat. Congrats on turning yourself around hombre. 👊👊👊
@@DrSeanOMara Thank you sir. I really appreciate it. Shane. ✌🏻❤️😃
Try to obtain a copy of your mri scan at vertebra L4 or L5 and look for visceral fat on your own. Study Dr omara’s videos with the mri examples. It’s pretty easy to tell where the fat is located. If you get another mri down the road you could compare them and see how your strategies are working.
@@deannaclouse9004great advice. Thank you. I have several I can compare. 👍🏻✌🏻❤️😂
Thanks for the info
Sean, I have been carnivore for about 5 months (grass fed beef mostly), and ate all organic my entire life, with lots of real saurkraut and fermented veggies, and the last 2 years before carni, I was Keto on and off. But I still get bloated from the fermented veggies - but still OK to eat?? (I am also very dairy intolerant. Even goat kefir etc.). Thanks!
Looking good bro
Share to your family
Thanks, I am not fat, but I have too much pubic fat, why is that? What type of fat is this area?
Hello Dr O’Mara,
I could be wrong about this, but as far as I can tell, most bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites feed on sugars and carbohydrates. Eating low carb means less infections, less colds and flu’s and less vulnerability to fungal infections because these organisms have less to eat.
Am I correct about this?
Yes
I hope that is true!
Dr Mike here optimizing neuroendocrine
I’ve tried to sprint. I’m going to continue until I can. Gotta start somewhere. ☺️
Thankyou . I vill get that handthing. You are so great.
Dr Sean O’Mara , If MRI possible to do what are the other type of Blood Test we need to do? Thank you.
Your enthusiasm is infectious and I've learned a lot from your videos. BUT, I can't circle this square with scalloped look when lying down. My core muscle strength is at the 95th percentile among male population, yet don't pass your test. Maybe you can elaborate how you can be so certain about sarcopenia based on one test.
Get an MRI of your abdomen and legs then you will see. If not I guess it’s not that important to you and I was not convincing enough in my videos. 👊
How do you get started with exercise if you are not use to being active?
Thankfully my belly looked more like the one at the bottom and I'm 70. This tip saved me money on an MRI
Sean, what do you think of Arnold's current physique, maybe an unfair question but interesting
Quality content once again, thanks Doc
Might as well face it, I'm addicted to sprinting. Thinking about racing this coming spring and summer at the local all-comers track meets. 100 and 200 meter races!
MRI requires a doctor's referral in Canada. It sucks.
There should be some places you can go and pay out of pocket but it'll be expensive.
Yes. The states lol
I saw your recent podcast with Dr. Ashley Lucas and I loved it! This episode has me confused. I did the MyPhD weight loss program, 72 years old, lost 35 lbs, 173-75 lbs, 5' 10", now a 34 inch waist, slim clothes, feeling really good! I am maintaining my weight range, eating protein and good vegetables. When I began the MyPhD program, my abdomen was extended. Now, it sags and I thought that was good! When I stand I can see my abdomen muscles are weak, the abdomen does protrude a bit. I am exercising, HIIT and strength.. You are saying here that Sarcopenia says I have excess visceral fat, Tanita scale has me at 13 visceral fat rating. Am I missing something important here?
Excellent advice. I am going to implement the sprinting into my workout. Since I have never sprinted l, how should I start and for long? You look fantastic.... I would have guessed late forties. I want to look like that and I think adding sprinting could be the key. Sets and how long, please.
His sprinting protocol is on his UA-cam page. Start very slow and at 3 to 5 seconds 1 time a week and slowly build up.
@@deedeeasten thank you so much!
Don't quit your profession.
Yep, noticed this became an issue after too much alcohol for too long. 😢
Thanks Doc O'Mara. I appreciate you and what you're doing. I just recently purchased the Bello 2. What are your thoughts?
just noticed he has a lot of arm hair LOL. On a more serious note, he looks so good for a 60 year old, and I saw from another of his videos how he used to look. He's in the best shape of his life. I've got a new role model-Dr Sean O'mara!
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Hi, I am new to you. I found you from the interview on the 5 Minute Body channel.
I have been looking through your videos to get a better understanding of exactly what the sprinting workout would look like. (I am already keto leaning ketovore and eat clean. I want to implement the fitness piece that I have been neglecting)
I can't tell if you mean just sprint for 10 seconds and then I am finished with the workout. Or if you mean to do it more as a HIIT workout.... sprint, walk, sprint, walk for about 10 minutes or so total.
Also I am not that comfortable about the sprinting because I get some occassional twinges in my right knee. But I have an elliptical machine and I can sprint on it without bothering my knee. But it seems silly just to get on it for a 20 second sprint and then call it a day.
So I am hoping you can provide more info on what the exercise routine would look like along with some alternate ideas.
On average, he says, sprints 15 seconds, but alternate each day. 2 sprints, 4 sprints in different intervals or whatever. 1 minute sprint is a maximum interval.
Every one of those influencers are selling something. Some book, some counseling. medical services etc. People know by instinct what is healthy. The problem is that society in general exists to convince you that what you see and know is wrong isn't. ignore, cancel and cover op the problem instead of getting to the meat of the matter.
I would like to build back the subcutaneous fat right under the skin. I’m single digit body fat but being old my skin is like paper so I look like a mummy. Stomach vacuums reduced my waist size to below that i had in high school.
Some folks are claiming carnivore diet would not give enough nitric oxide as no leafy greens. Besides the sun, where can we get nitric oxide in our diet?
Plenty of nitrates in meat for conversion to NO endogenously. The bigger problem is not nitrate/nitrite sourcing but adequate health for NO production.
@@DrSeanOMara Thanks and please keep up these free community service announcements - it is appreciated. Happy 2024 to you and your family.
Hello Doctor, If I want to get the abdominal MRI that you talk about, what are the specifications I should know to get it.? Thankyou
A non contrast abdominal mri. Question: who is going to read it? No one unless you can
@@DrSeanOMara Thanks Doc!
Hey Doc thanks for your videos. I just found you through a podcast and I‘m absolutely amazed by your theory. I want to start with sprinting but was wondering if one could also just do sprint in place from home? Or does it necessarily have to be outside with a distance?
Dr. Sean, what are your thoughts on Marijuana? Does it increase visceral fat?
I would write your strategies in the "show more" area. I snipped an image and it was still hard to read.
What Hand Dynamometer do you use? Would you provide a link? Thanks... you're lookin' very fly for 60 (actually for any age!)
Go get ‘em Sean!
carnivore since '19 and I have a flat belly standing and laying... meat gave me back my thirties! 🥩
I took a look at Caroline Labouchere's blog and she is low calorie, lots of cardio.
She is on HRT. It makes a difference. If you go on hrt before perimenopause spins you into 30+ pounds of fat gain and adjust your diet you are in a good place. But if you come at it a little later after the weight gain, hrt is no magic bullet.
Menopause makes women fat. Fat tissue makes estrogen.
I am sure that sprinting and low carb is not enough to reduce visceral fat in menopausal women as a n=1 experiment. Fasting for days helps for sure but then you end up with high cortisol and that takes it toll. It takes a lot to lose 5 pounds once you hit perimenopause/menopause. I am even doing hrt. It's frustrating. I am going to go back to multiple day fasting and buy a wig.
Check out Dr. Bright. Her recommendations might help you.
Same, thank you for the comment 👌
Thank you Dr O’Mara! You have a second location? 13:38
Yes. Coming soon to Florida. Stay tuned.
Good to know, thank you!
Whats the first location
I know the dynamometer is testing hand strength, but what does that have to do with the abdomen?
Nitric oxide? I listened to your interview on 5-minute body and you mentioned nitric oxide but I can't remember what you said and I can't find it on the video?
Doc Sean. What besides the body lift exercise you have shown would you recomment to get the strength and tone back in the abdominal. I'm 64 and the sitting lift is way way way to advanced for me. It hurts my thumbs to even try and I weigh too much to make it doable. What others would you recommend?
sorry, I saw your response above. I am trying all the things you talk about. Diet, sun, sauna, sprinting, etc; I just want to add to strengthen my abdominals without messing up my lower back.
Not sure I agree with the scalloped look when lying down, I have great core strength with regular stomach exercises and a scalloped look
Happy Hannukka ya'll
Dr O'Hara, I'd love to see a epic directed towards mom's with a baby belly. I've have 5 children and am losing weight, but the stretched skin is an issue.
How about the skin when you lose the visceral fat? How do we do with the hanging skin?
I’d love to get a MRI - where in Australia?
Thank you Dr. Sean
Where is a healthy range of Creatine Kinase?
Should the 3 types of CK be differentiated with regular testing, to know which types of muscle are most endangered from visceral fat?
If so, with what kind of inflammatory fatty acids an elevated CK would be related?
I m trying now get an MRI, but it looks like even private institutions are not interested in earning money from self paying clients, and I want to start meat/fermented foods now, but also want to get a precise picture of the starting point.
Who can read the MRI? That’s what is holding me back from getting one. Do I read it myself?
@@J.o.e_K that’s exactly what I was thinking ❤️
Dr.Sean, regarding 2 photos of gut. I would not agree here. If gut looks caved in when lying, this might mean also that guy is just empty( on a fast or had a stool recently) while other guy is a flat (;muscles are over full of juice from meat)
However, this point observing gut shape is importantespecially when standing. If bulged gut, yes for sure is either gas, VF or just overeating or gut muscles just weak.
Grip strength is determined by your brain, not just muscle.
I am following what you are saying to do. I have been an active runner for a couple of years, but over the past four months I was able to run a golf course fairways where I was. 18 holes on even days and 9 hole on odd, but when running on the odd days I would sprint as hard as possible the fairway(100 to 200 yds) and walk the greens & tee box.
Can I continue this or just Sprint every other day?
Sprint and walking is fantastic.
How long do you think it will take me to get rid of 1.65 pounds of visual fat following your program?
Turns on your motivation. 3-12 months. Come see me if you grasp your body is your most important physical asset.
ok, thanks, working hard, sprinting, weight lifting, pushups, dips, pullups, fasting and following 7 of the steps you outlined, stopped processed foods, seed oils, sugar 2 years ago, eating , 150 grams protein a day, fermented foods to feed the gut, sun, walking around barefoot in short pants and shirt leaves in the winter taking sauna's. I am anxious to lower visual fat as much as possible. Love your messages and videos. @@DrSeanOMara
Will exercise help.
is skipping rope good for visceral fat? thank you doctor
Please write a book.