Ep. #505: What Is CoolSculpting and Does It Work? (What 17 Studies Show)

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So again, if you appreciate my work and if you want to see more of it, please do consider supporting me so I can keep doing what I love, like producing podcasts like this. Cool sculpting. Does it work? That’s going to be the topic of this discussion. Can you really freeze fat away? And is it safe? Now, when I first heard about this, I of course thought it was a scam, cool scamming, great, just what we need.

But then when I looked into it, it has FDA approval, which doesn’t necessarily mean all that much, to be honest, but there are a lot of impressive before and afters online and there’s quite a bit of research on it and it quickly became clear that, wait a minute, there actually is something to this. And so then as I actually looked into it and understood what it was, it made sense that yes indeed it can help you get rid of unwanted fat, but it is not a magic bullet.

It can’t take you from overweight to lean. Why and how does it work and how effective is it? Let’s talk about that. Let’s start with what cool sculpting. It is a procedure known as cryolipolysis, cryo, C R Y O, cold lipolysis, L I P O L Y S I S, which is the process whereby body, your body mobilizes fat for burning.

And what this procedure does is it uses cold to kill fat cells. And this is a topical procedure as well. So it’s not surgery. It’s not like liposuction. It’s non invasive. And it’s intended for reducing specific fat deposits. Not for just reducing your overall body fat percentage, but specific fat deposits.

Now, why is that a thing? Why does that work? It turns out that fat tissue is more susceptible to damage from cold exposure than other tissues. And so what scientists found then is they can kill the fat cells using cold without damaging skin and neurons. And so what you have then with CoolSculpting is you have a device that exposes the skin to a cold temperature for a certain period of time, which is long enough to kill fat cells, but not so long as to cause unwanted damage like through frostbite, for example.

Now, what does your body do with damaged and dead cells? It gets rid of them, right? So you have damage now and you have dead fat cells and you have an inflammation response, which the body then uses to increase blood flow and to get rid of the waste. And so what that means then is cool sculpting cryolipolysis can allow you to sculpt your body to some degree.

Using cool temperatures. Think of it as contouring the outer layers of your fat deposits. What it can’t do though, is help you lose a bunch of fat. Hey, if you like what I am doing here on the podcast and elsewhere, and if you want to help me help more people get into the best shape of their lives, please do consider supporting my sports nutrition company, Legion Athletics, which produces 100 percent natural evidence based health and fitness supplements, including protein powders and bars, pre workout and post workout supplements.

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So again, the URL is legionathletics. com. And if you appreciate my work and want to see more of it, please do consider supporting me so I can keep doing what I love, like producing podcasts like this. If you have, let’s say, normal body fat levels, or even maybe a little bit lower than normal body fat levels, but you have some unsightly bulges, and for whatever reason you don’t want to diet them away, CoolSculpting might be able to help.

But, if you are very overweight, if you have a lot of fat to lose, CoolSculpting is not the way to go. Again, think of it as a localized treatment, where you pick a certain small region and sculpt it. Not a way to, it’s not a way to drop, let’s say 50 pounds of fat. Now I should also mention that CoolSculpting has only been scientifically tested in people who had a lot of fat to lose.

It hasn’t been tested in lean people. So as it only affects the outer layer of the skin. fat. We don’t really know how it might work or not work with lean individuals, and it is not a replacement for proper dieting. It is not a replacement for weight loss surgery or liposuction. It really is just a kind of nifty little quote unquote hack for getting rid of small

It’s very expensive, which means you got to have deep pockets to even want to mess with it. And if that’s you, if you have a lot of money to blow on your body and you want to occasionally trim little bits of fat, which of course will come back if you’re not addressing, let’s say your calorie intake on the whole, which is keeping your body fat level too high.

And if though you do just want to do it because you’d rather spend the money and spend the time doing cool sculpting than just addressing your meal planning and your exercising, then I suppose you can. It is relatively safe, but it’s like a spa toy, not a serious weight loss hack. Now, as far as safety goes, as I mentioned, it does have FDA approval for treatment of fat bulges and there is some nerve impairment that can occur, but it usually lasts no more than a month or so and is really not a serious side effect.

So on the whole, it would appear that CoolSculpting that cryolipolysis is safe and so there’s nothing really to worry about in terms of short or long term unwanted. Hey, Mike here. And if you like what I’m doing here on the podcast and elsewhere, and if you want to help me help more people get into the best shape of their lives, please do consider supporting my sports nutrition company, Legion Athletics, which produces 100 percent natural evidence based health and fitness supplements, including protein powders and protein bars, pre workout and post workout supplements, fat burners, multivitamins.

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