03/30/2026
Many of my patients were familiar with types of fat such as subcutaneous and visceral fat, but most have never heard of intramuscular fat, which resides in skeletal-muscle fibers 🩻💪. Not a lot is known about it, but it has been linked to serious heart conditions 🫀. Here’s what you need to know. 👩🏫
https://www.mdvip.com/patients/resources/study-finds-fatty-muscles-raises-risk-serious-heart-disease
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You’re probably familiar with subcutaneous fat – the type of fat that settles under your skin that you can pinch. It usually accumulates in the thighs, hips, belly and buttocks. And you may have heard of visceral fat, the type that settles in the abdomen and wraps around internal organs.