“Over the last 24 years I have literally treated thousands of women with cellulite and the majority of them were overweight, either a little or sometimes a lot. Indeed cellulite can also appear in slim women but weight gain seriously increases the appearance of cellulite. On the other hand, if you are overweight losing weight does not always proportionally reduce cellulite, hence the need for treaments.”
Overweight, obesity and cellulite
Obesity is now a major driver of cellulite worldwide
How does overweight and obesity cause cellulite?
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Obesity is a major driver of cellulite
At the time of first writing this article (February 2024) it was revealed that obesity worldwide has surpassed the 1 billion mark. In the last three decades obesity has increased 4x among children and 2x among adults. Furthermore, more than 2.5 billion adults are overweight, worldwide.
On this blog we have maintained that cellulite is a Western civilisation aesthetic condition that is not found in developing countries, where people consume more natural foods and where physical activity comprises a large part of people's days.
However, with global overweight and obesity rates increasing, this is also changing, as overweight and obesity are major causes of cellulite, and more and more people in the developing world suffer from cellulite.
It is true that some slim women get cellulite too and some overweight women don’t, but the general trend is that higher body fat percentages simply mean more cellulite.
How does overweight and obesity cause cellulite?
Hypodermal fat accumulation is THE number one aspect of cellulite, which consequently results in skin laxity, poor circulation, inflammation and fibrosis.
Plus nutrient-poor, calorie-rich nutrition also results in glycation and free radical damages, two other important aspects of cellulite.
The simplest way to reduce some of the cellulite that has formed due to overweight and obesity is to lose some weight, eat more healthily and move a whole lot more.
All these actions will reduce your chance of developing one of the so-called Western civilisation diseases (diabetes, heart disease, cancer etc) as well as improve the overall appearance of the skin, cellulite including.
Have a treatment in London with the cellulite experts
At LipoTherapeia we have specialised 100% in skin tightening and cellulite reduction for more than two decades and 20,000+ sessions.
This is all we study and practise every day and have researched and tried hands-on all the important skin tightening equipment and their manufacturers.
As strong, deep acting radiofrequency and deep-acting, high-power ultrasound cavitation are the technologies of choice for skin tightening and cellulite reduction, we have invested in the best RF/ultrasound technologies in the world.
(Of course, we keep looking for new technologies every day and if/when a better technology materialises we will be the first to provide it. However, we will never follow the latest ineffective gimmick, just because it’s good marketing to offer the latest hyped up - yet ineffective and/or unsafe treatment.)
Furthermore, over the last two decades we have developed advanced RF and cavitation treatment protocols in order to make the most of our technologies, for maximum results, naturally and safely.
And for even better, faster results, we now combine our RF/ultrasound treatments with high-power red/infrared light LED treatment.
Our radiofrequency/ultrasound/LED treatments are comfortable, pain-free, downtime-free, injection-free, 99.5%+ safe and always non-invasive.
(No unsafe and ineffective RF microneedling or HIFU and no safe but ineffective acoustic wave therapy, superficial RF (bipolar/tripolar/multipolar etc), low power RF/cavitation, electrical muscle stimulation, lymphatic massage, cupping, dry brushing and no ridiculous bum bum creams.)
Our focus is on honest, realistic, science-based treatment, combined with caring, professional service, with a smile.
We will be pleased to see you, assess your cellulite, skin laxity or fibrosis, listen to your story, discuss your case and offer you the best possible treatment.
The Cellulite School™: Get advanced training in cellulite reduction and skin tightening
Why train with The Cellulite School™?
We all know that training in cellulite reduction and skin tightening is as basic as it gets. It is typically a 4-6 hour training, involving only basic instruction from the manufacturer on how operators can use the machine; lots of myths, erroneous information and misconceptions; and some basic health and safety on how to use the machine.
There is no proper, real training in the science or cellulite, skin tightening, radiofrequency, ultrasound and all related technologies is non-existent - worldwide.
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Now you can get instant access to our expertise and save yourself literally thousands of pounds, dollars or euros of expensive mistakes and thousands of hours of study, research and practical application by attending one of our half-day, 1-day, 2-day or 3-day professional consultancy / training courses.
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