Adipose Tissue and Fat Distribution

Fat is the most condemned tissue in the human body. No other physical characteristic is measured so obsessively, fought so grimly, charged so morally. Too much of it is seen as failure. Too little as discipline. The entire fitness and diet industry lives on the conviction that adipose tissue is your enemy — something that must go, be liposuctioned away, starved off, trained away.

But your body sees it differently. For your body, fat is not a mistake. It is reserve energy. It is a protective cushion. It is warmth, softness, storage. It is a buffer between you and the world — and sometimes also a buffer between you and your own feelings.

The psychosomatic question is therefore not: how do I get rid of my fat? It is: why is my body building this buffer — and what is it protecting with it?