“Dumb without surgery? Is it possible!” It promises an aesthetic medicine center. “In a few weeks, its silhouette is sublimated and redesigned,” “up to less a 30% reduction in fatty cells,” adds another. “This treatment will act on the fatty tissue liquidating fats that will help dissolve the groups of fats,” abounds a third.
Losing fat, a few centimeters of waist or making cellulite disappear effortlessly, these promises are common in centers and aesthetic companies where new methods flourish regularly. Among the many proposals: cryolipolysis (a cold technique), ultrasound (sound waves), radiofrequency (electromagnetic waves) or LED (infrared light).
Keep in mind that if we distinguish three types of fat (under the deepest layer of the skin, around stomach and muscles), cellulite is just a concept without real scientific reality.
“In general, we designate cellulite as an aesthetic discomfort, mainly in women, due to a fatty pile in certain areas, including buttocks, hips or thighs. But in medical language, cellulite is something (an infection of subcutaneous fabrics, editor’s note),” explains the venerologist-eratologist Marie-Estelle Roux.
“There are women who have cellulite, that is, a padded appearance of the skin in certain areas, but do not have many fats,” nuances that are also a member of the National Dermatologists-Venereologists Union. “Therefore, we can be thin and have cellulite.”
“No method is lost”
But can we get rid of him? For David Boccara, plastic surgeon at the Saint-Louis hospital (AP-HP), a specialist in the subject, the effectiveness of the methods offered in the aesthetic cabinet remains “modest” in thin issues that wish to make one or two accounts disappear, at zero in overweight subjects.
“Yes, certain methods can, in some people and in certain areas, stimulate venous and lymphatic circulation, break the fibrous groups and soften the skin. But it is transitory. Very often, only the disposition of adipose tissue changes.”
“No method is really losing fat and even less pounds.”
Often, very expensive methods, of the order of several hundred euros, which sometimes can also be the cause of complications. Undesirable aesthetic effects, such as a hole in treated areas or a fat movement, more serious medical complications.
Because the risks related to the use of some of these machines are real, deplora David Boccara, also a professor at the University of Paris specialized in aesthetic reconstructive plastic surgery. For example, with Criolipolysis, this doctor has identified cases of serious burns that require operations and transplants as a result of necrosis.
An alert about high health authority
In an evaluation report published in 2018, the High Health Authority () denounced “serious or serious” complications (burns, hernia, an increase located in the fatty tissue) and concludes that “the practice of Creolipolysis acts has a suspicion of serious danger to human health.” He has also indicated the safety and quality defects of the devices, as well as the lack of training of the personnel that handles them. “
In any case, whether to lose adipose tissue or sign the skin, nothing will be as effective as a healthy diet, poor in refined sugars, as well as a regular practice of physical activity, especially in water to stimulate lymphatic drainage, “recalls the dermatologist Marie-Eestelle Roux.
“Actually, there is no miraculous remedy against cellulite.”
If the adipose tissue is often reduced to a lot of fat from which we would like to get rid, however, it fulfills important physiological functions. In fact, it is an important energy tank.
“If necessary, triglycerides contained in adipocytes can be cut to form fatty acids and substances called glyceroles,” explains the Vidal. The latter transform into glucose that is transported in the blood to provide fuel to the organs and the brain.
Nor should it be forgotten that the human body is designed to store fat; The adipose tissue appears in the fetus since the second trimester of pregnancy. In healthy and overweight men, fat represents 15 to 20% of body weight. In women, it is more: 20 to 25%.
Source: BFM TV
