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“Stomach fat is literally your uterus (or uterus)” is a popular and persistent claim: In 2020, health influencer and nutritionist Colleen Christensen I posted a picture on her No Food Rules Instagram account to reassure her followers that “the bump at the bottom of your stomach is your uterus.”
Christensen shared how frustrated she was that she couldn’t get a flat stomach until a friend reassured her by explaining that “that bump is organs.”
As Christensen quickly learned from the comments section, that’s not what it is: internal organs He does It takes up space in your body, but the uterus — a thick-walled, hollow organ where the fetus grows during pregnancy — Located in the female pelvis Between the bladder and rectum, not in the stomach. (To her credit, Christensen later updated her post with more information for her followers.)
Dr. Lisa Erlanger, “The bony part contains the uterus and ovaries,” a professor of family medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine explained it further for us in an email interview. “The hips are wider and tilted differently for women, which naturally gives a different appearance, but the uterus is usually not in what we consider the stomach.”
There are also a lot of other body structures in that area that we need, he said Dr. Stephanie Trentacost McNally, Director of OB-GYN Services at the Katz Institute for Women’s Health.
“In this part of our anatomy, there are many layers, from the skin to… Fascia – It is the strong tissue that holds you together – muscles, nerves, blood vessels, connective tissue and fat.
