VAT Trap

The VAT Trap book, blog and digital media series reveals how visceral fat — the hidden metabolic organ — drives heart disease, hypertension, and diabetes. Drawing on 30 years of frontline cardiology and the latest in imaging, app-based tracking, and metabolic science, Dr Ed Leatham translates complex research into clear, actionable steps. Whether you want to avoid heart disease, stabilise your metabolism, or understand GLP-1 therapy, these four concise podcast seasons accompany a four book series that will help you see, track, and reverse the VAT trap. To join the mailing list click on the link below and add your email https://link.scvc.co.uk/vat-trap-join-newsletter Disclosure Dr Leatham is Director and Founder of the Surrey Cardiovascular Clinic and, since 2019, Co-Founder and Managing Director of HeartScanDirect (https://www.heartscandirect.com/), one of the UK’s leading cardiac CT providers specialising in AI-processed scans and among the few cardiologist-led CT services in the country. Dr Leatham’s own private medical practice is based at the Surrey cardiovascular clinic and therefore has a major financial interest in the Surrey Cardiovascular clinic, the Virtual Cath Lab and Vat-Trap.com. He has no financial relationship with any pharma company or product. A full disclosure is available at https://www.vat-trap.com/disclosures.

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The Five Numbers That Matter More Than BMI

Five key metrics—blood pressure, ApoB, glucose patterns, waist ratio, and muscle strength—redefine cardiovascular risk beyond outdated BMI measurements.Read Post

10 Touko 17min

GLP-1 Therapies in Cardiology Clinical Practice

GLP-1 therapies reduce cardiovascular events, likely through visceral adipose tissue reduction, reframing cardiology treatment toward upstream metabolic disease targeting Read post

10 Touko 21min

The Fourth Pillar: Why I Spent 30 Years as a Cardiologist Without Hearing About the Most Important Risk Factor of All

Visceral fat sits silently behind heart disease, dementia, prediabetes, joint pain and aggressive prostate cancer riskRead post

10 Touko 21min

The Sugar Connection No One Was Teaching

Fructose quietly drives visceral fat, insulin resistance, and small dense LDL, reshaping cardiovascular risk within today’s ultra-processed food environment modern.Read post

10 Touko 20min

Why Your Cholesterol Numbers Might Be Lying To You

Two patients. Same LDL. One needs a statin. The other needs a tape measure. Here's how to tell which one you are.Read post

10 Touko 19min

Strength as a Vital Sign — How We Measure It in Clinic and at Home

Simple grip strength testing predicts heart disease better than blood pressure. Two three-minute muscle function tests reveal your metabolic resilience and can be tracked at home monthly. Strong muscl...

10 Touko 21min

Sarcopenia: Are We Diagnosing the Wrong Muscle Problem?

In cardiometabolic medicine, muscle is not a cosmetic tissue but a metabolic organ. Evidence consistently shows that strength, not muscle mass, predicts insulin resistance, cardiovascular risk, and su...

25 Maalis 20min

The Cardiometabolic Reset: Escaping the Metabolic Doom Loop

The Eight-Month Metabolic Reset is a structured cardiometabolic programme designed to reduce visceral fat, preserve skeletal muscle strength, and improve glucose stability. Combining lifestyle change,...

3 Maalis 22min