Will Ozempic and other GLP-1 drugs eliminate cellulite?

“TL;DR: GLP-1 drugs may prevent the appearance of cellulite but existing cellulite can only be reduced by such mediation - not eliminated.

This, plus skin looseness will need to be reduced too with a non-surgical cellulite reduction treatment.”

FIRST PARAGRAPH

• Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro and overweight/obesity

• Existing severe cellulite after GLP-1 drug administration

• Existing mild cellulite after GLP-1 drug administration

• Cellulite prevention with GLP-1 medication?

• Have a skin tightening/cellulite treatment in London with the experts

• Advanced, infrared / red light therapy treatments in London at LipoTherapeia

• Discover our professional training in cellulite, skin tightening, radiofrequency and ultrasound

Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro and overweight/obesity

The rise of current GLP-1 receptor agonist drugs, such as Ozempic/Wegovy and Mounjaro, and the development of new ones with less side effects and possible oral administration (as opposed to current injection), is poised to reduce the incidence of overweight and obesity in the general population.

However, can Ozempic/Wegovy, Mounjaro et al eliminate the cellulite appearance?

Existing severe cellulite after GLP-1 drug administration

GLP-1 drugs can indeed eliminate current obesity, when taken after someone reached the obese status. However, cellulite in overweight and obese people is always already very established, causing permanent changes in the connective tissue, so it cannot be eliminated just with a GLP-1 agonist receptor medication.

Sure, adipocytes will empty to a large extent in the areas affected by cellulite but they will not empty completely (that would require someone to become extremely thin). Furthermore, the hypodermal fibrosis found in cellulite will stay. Plus the overall skin laxity left after the removal of fat will also stay, further accentuating the appearance of cellulite.

the best possible treatment for such residual cellulite and skin laxity is deep-acting, high-power radiofrequency combined with deep-acting, high-power ultrasound cavitation.

Existing mild cellulite after GLP-1 drug administration

At the moment such medication is not given to non-overweight people, i.e. the people who may only have mild or average cellulite.

In the case of mild cellulite, i.e. cellulite which did not have a chance to create much fibrosis in the hypodermis, where adipocytes are not excessively sized and where skin did not end up becoming too loose, such medication may lead to the (almost) complete elimination of cellulite.

(Existing “average” cellulite, i.e. neither mild nor severe cellulite, will be reduced to a large extent but not completely eliminated.)

Whatever remains of such mild/average cellulite, and the skin laxity that accompanies it, can be completely eliminated with the combination of deep, strong RF/cavitation, mentioned above.

But that remains a future scenario, if and when such medication is prescribed to much slimmer people than today.

Cellulite prevention with GLP-1 medication?

If in the future GLP-1 receptor agonist medication becomes almost adverse reaction-free (no drug can ever be 100% adverse reaction-free) and is taken by most members of the public, in that case, yes, cellulite may never develop in most of those people.

I used the word “most” in the above paragraph because cellulite can also be caused by inactivity, water retention, inflammation, different drugs etc, so even if we generally inhibit hypodermal fat accumulation with medication (again, there is no guarantee of 100% hypodermal fat accumulation), some people may still develop cellulite.

But at the moment we cannot be sure if such super-safe medication will exist and this option remains science fiction.

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Our LED phototherapy sessions are comfortable, deeply relaxing and super-safe and are great to enhance our radiofrequency/ultrasound treatments for skin tightening / cellulite reduction.

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