Deep-acting, high-power radiofrequency and deep-acting, high-power ultrasound cavitation are the two most effective SAFE technologies for cellulite reduction and skin tightening (far more effective and safe than e.g. RF microneedling or HIFU). Depth of treatment depends on the type of ultrasound or RF equipment you use, the settings you apply and even the contact medium you apply on the skin. Power depends on the equipment you use and the settings you apply…
Deep-acting, high-power radiofrequency provided under at intensity just under the pain threshold is the most effective SAFE skin tightening and cellulite reduction treatment available today (superficial or low-power RF doesn’t work). Radiofrequency works by stimulating collagen contraction, collagen cell proliferation, collagen and elastin…
The main thing that radiofrequency does is to tighten skin. This happens via two mechanisms: RF stimulates existing collagen contraction; RF stimulates new collagen and elastin synthesis. In fact radiofrequency is the best way to achieve both collagen contraction and production. Any other technique is simply not effective enough, unsafe or both.
When it comes to skin tightening / toning / lifting, radiofrequency is the only game in town.
High-power, deep-acting radio frequency treatment is now indisputable technology for cellulite and skin tightening, especially body skin tightening. But should it be painful to be effective? Absolutely not. Properly applied radio frequency should be a painless procedure and should never require the use of anaesthetic (numbing) cream. Never…
After more than two decades of working with skin tightening and cellulite removal and after assessing all the relevant technologies I can state that properly applied deep-acting, high-power radiofrequency is the most effective SAFE skin tightening technology (there are other skin tightening technologies but they are either ineffective and/or unsafe). Deep, strong radiofrequency is also the jointly most effective SAFE cellulite reduction technology (again, there are other skin tightening technologies but they are either ineffective and/or unsafe). Now there are different types of radiofrequency that can be used for skin tightening and cellulite reduction, according to frequency…
Cellulite appears due to the action of enlarged fat globules pushing skin upwards and shortened collagen fibre bundles pulling skin downwards. These collagen fibre bundles are not bothersome, unnecessary for the body tissues that need to be cut out so that fat can perpetually expand upwards without hindrance. These fibres are known to anatomists as retinaculae cutis*, i.e. skin ligaments, and they are there, as all ligaments, to keep two parts of connective tissue attached…
This is a common question we hear at the clinic. Cellulite creams are much more economical than treatments, so if they do work they make more sense, at least economically. On the other hand, many people do not believe that creams are even absorbed or they believe that their benefits are due to massaging the cream on the legs, two myths that we addressed in detail in previous articles. Of course a good cellulite cream is absorbed; and the effect of massaging the cream into the skin is negligible. On this article we are looking at the pros and cons of cellulite treatments vs cellulite creams.
Never and none. It doesn’t matter how often you have red light therapy - you will NOT lose any weight. Sure, there are a few research papers which report weight loss and even “trusted” sites like Healthline fall for them, simply because the writers of those trusted websites quite often have no technical expertise, insider knowledge or clinical experience themselves to assess what is real and what is fake in specific sectors - in this case the often unscrupulous aesthetic equipment manufacturer industry…
As if metabolic inflammation, insulin resistance, diabetes, overweight and obesity (not to mention cellulite, the subject of this website) were not bad enough in London and the UK in general, the last few years we have seen the rise of the ‘afternoon tea culture’, complete with bottomless prosecco offers and, of course, “The Great Diabetes Bake Off” (excuse me, I meant to say ‘The Great British Bake Off’), which has indoctrinated an entire generation to produce - and inevitably consume - vast quantities of stodgy, fattening and unhealthy nutritional junk. Indeed, the definition of junk food is food rich in fat, sugar and refined starch, so whichever way you dress a pig (fancily named Battenberg cakes or Angel slices, as…
London is an international air travel hub, with economical tickets to both European and distant destinations, and as a result millions of Londoners every year take to the skies. Many travel several times a year for pleasure while others even travel several times a week for business. All this travel does not just mean rich hotel meals and drinks at night - either for pleasure or business - but also food on the go, airport food and, worst of all, airplane food. Water retention and dehydration is also an issue when flying, which means poor circulation, puffiness and bloating…
"Since I’ve moved to London I have put on so much weight"; "I always had a little bit of cellulite but since I moved to London my cellulite has got worse than ever"; “I don’t exercise in London as much as I used to back home, so I put on weight”. As a cellulite specialist I have seen literally thousands of women, British and from all parts of the world, and I have heard those phrases countless times in the last couple of decades. My clients at the clinic seem to agree that, to put it bluntly, “London makes you fat and gives you cellulite”. And this does not come as a surprise to them, as they know that their habits have become a lot more unhealthy since they moved to London…
Italian, Greek, Japanese, Thai and even Indian cuisine, for example, never included so much cream, butter, palm fat, rapeseed oil and mayonnaise. Sugar and sweet sauces are almost never included in Mediterranean savoury dishes. Yet, pub and restaurant meals, as well as supermarket ready-made meals, are full of those ingredients. Why does one need mayonnaise in sushi? Why would a so-called Greek salad need a sweet sauce? And why the hell do we need all this cream in so many meals?
I do not understand what makes unhealthy food, cooked unhealthily, good for the “soul”. Yes, it is comforting and occasionally food comfort is important. But consuming comfort/soul/street food continuously - as many people do these days with London’s rampant takeaway “just eat” culture - is detrimental to health. Indeed, ‘soul food’ and ‘street food’ played a role in the past, when people who mainly did heavy manual labour for a living needed a source of thousands of concentrated calories to get them through the day. In fact, millions of hard working people still depend on it today. It is not the healthiest food but provides needed calories…
And for every person benefitting from such motivation - or anxiety-inducing - reels there are countless others who simply waste their life away in the sofa scrolling to watch pointless “content” while eating comfort food and getting unhealthy and overweight. Not the mention the millions of disgusting food recipes with smoked, burned, charred, smoked again, fried, charred again, burned, fried again food comprising fatty meat, 60 shades of sugar and countless forms of stodge (British: heavy, dull, often starchy food)…
At the clinic we quite often see female clients (usually young but quite often in their 40s and 60s too), who consume 15 or even 20 units of alcohol on a night out. I really do not know how they do it - that amount of alcohol would send me to the intensive care unit. The fact is they do it and, although some are slim or relatively slim, they all have one thing in…
Beer and fish and chips vs refined restaurants and expensive cocktails. What do these two things have in common? Calories and alcohol, of course. In the last 20 years that we have specialised in cellulite, we have seen so many champagne-sipping people, who had literally thousands of evenings of refined dining…
“Don’t cook, just eat”, goes the motto of food delivery app Just Eat. Deliveroo and Uber Eats preach a similar philosophy: why bother to cook, when you can outsource your food? Obviously things are not so simple. Takeaway food is not cooked in a ‘Green Pan’ with a £50-a-kilo extra virgin Toscano olive oil, coming out of a cute glass bottle…
Leaky gut, or increased intestinal permeability, occurs when the lining of the small intestine becomes compromised. This allows undigested food particles, toxins, and bacteria to leak into the bloodstream, triggering systemic inflammation and immune responses. Since inflammation and related processes play a significant role in skin and tissue health, this condition could plausibly affect cellulite…
At the clinic we hear a lot of clients asking “why does my cellulite hurt when massaged“ or even “why does my fat hurt to touch”. For most women cellulite is not painful (at least for Stage I or Stage II cellulite). However, in the more severe cases of lumpy cellulite (Stage III) both cellulite and fat can hurt to the touch. This is most commonly found in…
With any effective body treatment, it is good to leave one, two or more days between sessions in order to allow for the skin to recover. So with a deep-acting, high-power radiofrequency treatment, you must leave at least 2-3 days between sessions. With ineffective, low power RF treatments, you can leave less time between sessions (as little…
The body, including the skin, needs regular strong-but-safe stimulation to change. Plus it needs time between sessions of stimulation to recover and built stronger issue. This is how building muscle at the gym works and this is how skin tightening / cellulite reduction treatments work: by providing regular, as strong-but-safe stimulation to tissues: muscles or skin, respectively. However, the body has its own limits, which precludes too intensive stimulation: If you suddenly use 150kg weights for your squats you will not build a more toned butt faster, you will end up in hospital with a knee injury. Likewise, if you use an aesthetic treatment which is three times stronger than…
Some clinics advertise sports/deep tissue massage as an anti-cellulite massage, which could not be further from the truth. Deep tissue massage (aka sports massage) is a massage technique aiming to work DEEP into the muscles to alleviate muscle tightness, pain or injury. On the other hand, cellulite is an aesthetic condition that is characterised by hypodermal fat accumulation. Now the hypodermis may be the deepest skin layer but it is still way more superficial than the muscles. After the hypodermis we have the intermediate fascia, then the subcutaneous adipose tissue, then the deep fascia, then the muscle fascia and then the muscles. Muscles and hypodermis are two very distant tissues. Furthermore, the massage manipulation muscles need is quite different to the massage manipulation cellulite needs…
After almost all “lipo” surgery (liposuction, liposculpture, laser lipo/smart lipo, vaser lipo, bodytite, abdominoplasty/tummy tuck, Brazilian butt lift/BBL, cellfina, subcision, cellulaze, cellutite, profound RF etc) inflammation and oedema (water retention). Inflammation / oedema are followed by scar tissue development (known as fibrosis, adhesions or simply ‘hard lumps’) in one of more areas or widespread throughout the operated area…
First off let’s clarify that no cream/gel/serum can actually ever burn any fat. This is biologically impossible. Fat is oxidised (what people call “burned”) in muscles and organs after being released by fat cells. No fat oxidation occurs in white adipose fat tissue (what people call “fat”). So in essence a “fat burning” cream that works (most don’t), is a cream that helps stimulate lipolysis (= fat release from fat cells) in specific areas where stubborn fat has accumulated…
“Radiofrequency” is an all encompassing term for treatment with different types of high frequency electrical currents. Different machines utilise different frequencies, from an extra low of 300kHz to an extra high of 5GHz. The types of physical phenomena at play on those different machines are quite different…
The LipoTherapeia® Plus treatment, a combination of deep-acting, high-power radiofrequency, deep acting, high-power ultrasound cavitation and high-power LED phototherapy, is the strongest SAFE skin tightening, natural anti-ageing and cellulite treatment in London, ideal for both body and face.
The treatment is provided with advanced protocols based on the Physics of radiofrequency, ultrasound and phototherapy and on the Anatomy and physiology of cellulite and skin laxity.
The LipoTherapeia® Plus treatments are exclusively provided at our practice in Central London
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So 24+ years on, we still keep it real, regardless of AI.
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