Body contouring: everything you need to know about this technique

Whether it's natural aging or sedentary lifestyle, it is sometimes difficult to maintain the slim and firm figure that allows you to feel good in your body. To overcome this problem which affects more people than we think, new aesthetic medicine techniques offer effective solutions to reshape your body without having to resort to heavy techniques: body contouring. Here's everything you need to know about it!

Body contouring: slimming and firming objective

Whether on the face or the rest of the body, the skin naturally loses its tone with age.

Other factors can also amplify or accelerate this process, such as lack of exercise, weight gain and repeated diets, pregnancy or even a particular genetic background.

Despite all your efforts, the lines of your face and the contours of your figure lose clarity and you see it in your mirror a little more every day. However, this natural evolution of your body is not inevitable or irreversible.

In fact, new aesthetic medicine solutions offer treatments in two simple stages for a complete result: a slimming phase by eliminating excess fat cells and a strong>firming phase to retone and tighten the skin with the aim of completely remodeling your face or silhouette.

The different body contouring techniques: the slimming phase

Before reshaping your silhouette, it is first necessary to refine it so that your body regains its slender and well-defined line as you imagine it. The slimming phase is therefore essential.

As you age or after pregnancy, for example, your body reacts differently and excess fat storage (stomach, hip, face, etc.) can be more difficult to eliminate.

To get rid of your unwanted fat cells in a targeted or global way, there are two particularly effective methods, although opposite on paper: heat treatment and cold treatment.

The destruction of fat cells by localized hyperthermia

Also called thermolysis, the targeted exposure of fatty tissues to high heat will melt the fat vacuoles. This technique weakens the adipocytic membrane, which leads to the death of the excess fat cell (also called apoptosis).

The destruction of fat cells by hypothermia

Exposure of fat cells to intense cold, called cryolipolysis, also causes the destruction of the adipocytic membrane and apoptosis (the death of the excess fat cell).

Common aspects

These two techniques have the enormous advantage of being definitive. Indeed, the adipocytic membrane of the adult human being does not have the capacity to regenerate. Fat cells destroyed using one or other of these techniques cannot therefore reappear. However, it takes a few months before you see visible results on your figure.

The firming phase: the second stage of body contouring

Just like after pregnancy or significant weight loss, your skin may be distended after the thinning phase due to the loss of volume that phase 1 caused. In order to complete your body contouring and find a firm and slender silhouette, the firming step is therefore essential. Depending on your situation, there are again several solutions.

Has your skin retained its natural elasticity? It will firm up naturally and you will quickly find a perfectly shaped silhouette and face.
Is your skin distended? You can use an aesthetic medicine firming technique: hyperthermia. This solution helps to naturally firm the skin by acting with heat on the collagen fibers present in your body. Coupled with the papler-rolling technique, the results will be there.

Body contouring: ideal for reshaping your body according to your desires!

Despite its name, body contouring concerns both the body and the face and can be applied in a targeted manner. So, you can choose to erase your unsightly double chin, to shape your hips, your buttocks or your thighs according to your needs.

The important thing is to act where you need it without affecting parts of your figure that you like just the way they are.

Thanks to body contouring, you will be able to find a rejuvenated body, remodeled and firmed in which you will feel again yourself in just a few sessions, without wasting time or having to put in extra effort.

Body contouring: everything you need to know about this technique

Body contouring: ideal for reshaping your body according to your desires!

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