If you're looking to improve the firmness of your skin and reduce cellulite, you may have come across the terms "radiofrequency" and "cavitation" in your research. While these treatments may seem similar at first glance, they actually have some key differences that are important to understand.
Visceral fat is the fat responsible for the so-called “beer belly” look. It is also the most unhealthy fat you can have, as it increases the risk if diabetes and cardiovascular disease. So it is no wonder people ask whether they can reduce visceral fat with any method. However, as we can see healthy eating, weight loss and exercise (and lately anti-diabetic injections) are the only ways to reduce visceral fat…
I don’t know where this “fat melting” idea came from, but those who invented this phrase a few decades ago, should have known that fat is already liquid in fat cells. In fact, scientists call the lipid content in fat cells “the adipocyte lipid droplet”. So next time you visit a clinic where they claim to melt your fat…
A Brazilian bum: everyone would like to have one, yet few would be prepared to go for surgery to achieve it, hence the popularity of so many “non-surgical bum lift treatments”. Lack of exercise, excess calorie intake, sugar intake, sitting down for long periods of time and normal ageing, all result in skin looseness, the accumulation of excess fat, cellulite and water retention on the buttock area. The result is a saggy bottom with puffy, spongy skin…
Red and infrared light therapy with an LED device can indeed help with anti-ageing, skin healing and rejuvenation, giving skin a healthy glow and helping prevent skin laxity and fine lines and light wrinkles. However, its effect is not strong enough to reduce nasolabial folds (smile lines), especially deep ones that have formed over…
Cellulite may start in the teenage years, as early as 14, but in most women it appears more and more often with progressing age. At the clinic we see some women starting to seek cellulite treatments at about 23, then the next stage is 28, and then more in the 30s, 40s, 50s and 60s. Indeed cellulite worsens with age and there are a few reasons for that…
Unfortunately not. We offer the strongest and best red/infrared LED phototherapy available on the market and we wish we could claim that your jowls will disappear or even be reduced / tightened with it but the honest truth is that they won’t. The best possible technology to SAFELY and effectively tighten up and lift the jowl / jawline area, and…
Don’t bother much with topical remedies - as we will see below they don’t work nearly as well as a simplistic 2% caffeine cream.
In fact, a the best home remedies you can use for cellulite is clean are super-healthy foods, such as vegetables, salads, oily fish, vegetable juices, berry fruits, berry smoothies, lean protein (lean meat and poultry, fish/seafood and pulses), lots of herbs and spices and herbal teas. Green tea, gotu kola, pine bark, grape seed, bilberry, quercetin, hesperidin at other…
Unfortunately, not at all. Vitamin D3 (aka cholecalciferol or simply Vitamin D) is synthesised after UV-B ultraviolet radiation (295-315nm) skin exposure. LED light therapy treatments do not involved any UV light emission (<400nm wavelength). Most LED treatments involve red (~625-750nm) or near infrared (~750-2500nm) light. Some LED treatments also involve blue light, which is at about 400-500nm…
Both red (around 630nm) and near infrared (around 830nm) LED light stimulate mitochondrial function on all cells, including fibroblasts, which are the collagen and elastin producing cells in the skin, tendons, ligaments and other tissues. So, yes, by improving mitochondrial and cell function in skin fibroblasts, red and near infrared LED light does boost both collagen and elastin…
Healthy nutrition is essential for cellulite prevention and this applies equally to vitamins, minerals, polyphenols, carotenoids, fibre, omega-3 fatty acids and protein. These exact nutrients are the ones lacking in today’s Western diets and whose deficiency results in cellulite - usually in combination with an excess intake of sugar, unhealthy fats and carbs; a lack of exercise and physical activity; as well as smoking and the contraceptive pill. Regarding vitamins, they all have a role to play in cellulite prevention and they can somewhat contribute to its reduction, with perhaps vitamin C (ascorbic acid) being the most important, due to its antioxidant action and its important role on collagen…
Different skin tissue depths and their structures affect cellulite and skin laxity in different ways. There is widespread confusion regarding cellulite, the different skin tissue layers and their depths in the scientific literature - not to mention general information that you can find on the web. The names are totally confusing and are used to describe different things by different researchers…
Given that female hormones (estrogen, progesterone) are an essential cause of cellulite, HRT cannot possibly reduce cellulite, let alone “get rid of” it. In some cases, the lack of estrogen and progesterone during menopause can lead to loose skin, which can aggravate the appearance of cellulite. With HRT this effect will diminish and skin laxity (and consequent cellulite) may improve somewhat but don’t expect a significant…
If successful, BBL surgery lifts and enlarges the buttocks to create a beautiful, round firm shape. However, the quality of the skin on the buttocks itself does not change at all with a BBL. The only reason there is firmness after a BBL is because the skin has become taut due to the outward pressure of the added fat and - in some cases - the removal of excess skin. So if skin was thin and weak before a BBL, after some time (3-4 years)…
Both red (around 630nm wavelength) and near infrared (around 830nm wavelength) light have been widely researched for the action on capillary health and integrity. Of course, existing broken capillaries cannot be repaired but red / infrared LED treatment will help prevent further capillary damage. By helping break down the by-products of leaked blood from broken capillaries, red/infrared light can also help with the dark pigmentation that occurs in those cases…
Blue light LED treatment is mainly used for acne reduction and psoriasis. Blue light acts on porphyrins inside bacteria (including the Cutibacterium acnes bacteria, which cause most forms of acne), to inactivate them. Blue light is ideally combined with red and infrared light, which are known to stimulate skin…
There is no such thing as Stage 3 cellulite treatment. Someone simply made it up for marketing purposes. Treatment for cellulite is exactly the same at all stages - and aims to act on all major aspects of Cellulite - at all stages, from Stage 1 to Stage 4: reduce hypodermal fat accumulation; break down fibrosis; improve circulation and lymphatic…
What is now euphemistically called acoustic wave therapy (AWT) goes by several other names: pressure wave therapy, extracorporeal shockwave therapy (ESWT, the correct name and the original one coined by scientists), shockwave therapy (the shortened version of the correct name) and lipotripsy (the most ridiculous one I have seen). Before shockwaves were used for (questionable) cellulite removal, they were initially used to break down kidney and gallbladder stones, hence the medical name lithotripsy, meaning breaking down stones. From that, one crafty marketer coined the term “lipotripsy”, i.e. breaking down fat, although shockwaves do NOT physically break down fat…
There are different methods to classify the severity of cellulite, some more accurate, some more technical and complicated and some more practical. As there are different types of cellulite (more on that below) and as the appearance of cellulite changes even from day to day, it is impossible to use an exact, measurable number to describe the severity of cellulite, as in 83% or similar. Furthermore, there is no objective, accurate, widely accepted way, to put an exact number and describe the severity of cellulite.
This is a very common question at the clinic: “It’s so unfair, why do women need to get cellulite and men not”? Well, there is an answer to that and in short it’s called estrogen. Generally, everybody, man or woman, can get cellulite if both two following conditions are met: their body is loaded with enough of the hormone estrogen - natural or artificial; and they ingest more calories than they spend and/or they sit down too much/walk too little. Estrogen on its own does NOT cause cellulite, neither inactivity…
Most LED treatments are in the red (~620-750nm) and near infrared (~750-1400nm) wavelengths, i.e. the exact opposite side of the spectrum from UV wavelengths (for example UVA is at ~315-400nm and UVB is even lower at ~280-315nm). So there is not a danger of your LED treatment giving off UV radiation. Red and near infrared light are widely researched for their anti-ageing, healing, anti-inflammatory…
Deep-acting, high-power radiofrequency and deep acting, high-power ultrasound cavitation are the two best technologies for both cellulite removal and skin tightening. With a high-power setup, the optimum frequency for treatments is twice a week, with a two or three day gap between sessions. The 2-3 day gap allows for recovery between sessions, which means maximum intensity can be used during treatment (in the few cases where deep, strong treatment is provided)…
Internally the best oils for cellulite are the omega-3s. The highly unsaturated fatty acids (HUFAs) DHA and EPA, contained in fish oil or vegan DHA / vegan EPA oil, are known for their anti-inflammatory, slimming, circulation-boosting and overall anti-ageing action. So fish oil (or its vegan equivalents) is the bestt oil for cellulite. EPA and DHA are also contained in…
Dark spots and hyperpigmentation in general are prime indications for the use of red and near-infrared light therapy. Red and near-infrared light, either from an LED or low-level laser light source exerts an anti-inflammatory and a skin metabolism-boosting effect (due to stimulation of mitochondria), which results in hyperpigmentation reduction, over several sessions…
Exfoliating and/or moisturising your skin would not make the tiniest difference to your cellulite. Exfoliation / hydration work on your epidermis, i.e. the top 0.1mm of your skin. Cellulite is located in the hypodermis, i.e. the deepest 2-8mm of your skin and 20-80 times deeper than the width of your epidermis. There is absolutely no connection…
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The LipoTherapeia® Plus treatment, a combination of deep-acting, high-power radiofrequency, deep acting, high-power ultrasound cavitation and high-power LED phototherapy, is arguably the strongest SAFE skin tightening/lifting, natural anti-ageing and cellulite treatment in London
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
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