What is CoolSculpting? It’s an innovative fat reduction treatment that can reduce body fat in a localized area by 25 percent in just a few short sessions.
How does the procedure work? It uses the cold to literally freeze and kill your fat cells!
Freezing Fat Cells? Sounds Too Good to Be True!
CoolSculpting has its origins in an offhand observation by scientists: that children who ate popsicles had dimples appear on their face out of nowhere.
Combine this with a case study that showed a woman who rode a horse naked through a blizzard (yes, this apparently happened) miraculously lost thigh fat, and the basic principle behind CoolSculpting was born: fat cells are not very resilient to extreme temperatures.
In fact, fat cells have such a low resistance to extreme temperature, that relatively bearable temperatures can be used to kill fat cells… without harming the surrounding tissue.
So Do I Have to Get Into a Bath of Ice?
Not at all! In fact, CoolSculpting is an eminently easy procedure that involves going into an office and having a couple of cold applicators applied to your body for just under an hour.
A machine constantly monitors the temperature of your tissue, and works to optimize the flow of heat in order to maximize the death of fat cells.
The amazing thing about treatments like CoolSculpting is that they actually kill fat cells–in a way that diet and exercise simply doesn’t.
The result is that CoolSculpting achieves spot reduction in individuals. While diet and exercise can cause global reductions of fat, they can’t work to reduce the size of problem areas like love handles, double chin, upper arms, or thigh fat.
Therefore, it’s best to use CoolSculpting in conjunction with diet and exercise to achieve optimal results.
Interested in CoolSculpting in Rockville, Chevy Chase or the surrounding Washington DC area? Call The West Institute today to schedule your appointment.