Liposuction can seem like a simple fix if your wellness is affected by stubborn fat deposits on your tummy, thighs and buttocks, but there is a catch: fat might turn up in other place. While liposuction can help to get rid of your love handles and muffin top, you increase the chances of gaining belly fat or the vicious visceral fat, which poses more of a health concern. This is according to new research, published in Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, which found that the body redistributes post-liposuction fat to more dangerous places.
The Brazilian research team hailing from University of São Paulo note that it’s almost impossible for overweight people to get rid of fat completely, as your body is already prone to storing more fat. Therefore, after liposuction, the new fat stored is redistributed throughout your abdomen to become visceral fat instead of becoming just subcutaneous fat, and that more dangerous for your wellbeing. Luckily, the good news is that you can counteract this fat again if you undertake a programme of regular exercise after your liposuction procedure.
Liposuction works to target the fat cells right underneath your skin, known as subcutaneous fat. While such fat is a little bit bulgy and unpleasant, it’s impossible to keep it at bay without good old fashioned exercise. Rather, like an old horror film you’ve ever seen, when you kill the beast it comes back stronger, appearing in the form of visceral fat. The reason why visceral fat is more dangerous than subcutaneous is because it gets stored in your abdomen around your vital organs, and, as a results, contributes to nasty diseases such as diabetes and cardiac disease. However, if you want to have your cake and lipo it too, exercise is the only way to make liposuction’s slimming effects last.
The researchers looked at 36 female subjects aged between 20 and 35. The study participants were overweight, led a rather sedentary lifestyle, and opted for liposuction for a toned and trimmed physique. Two months after the procedure, half of the study participants continued to lead their regular sedentary lifestyle, while the other half was put on an exercise regime that required them to workout three times a week. This regular workout routine involved a five-minute warm-up, 40 minutes of cardio and basic strength training exercises. The participants followed this exercise programme for four months before the researchers took their results.
The results of the study revealed that women who didn’t participate in exercise had gained over 10% more visceral fat than they had had before surgery. The women who were on the exercise regimen for four months, on the other hand, didn’t gain any weight back and in fact, had lesser overall body fat content as compared to what they had had before the liposuction procedure. Not only were these women more physically fit, as you’d might expect, they also demonstrated a remarkable improvement in insulin sensitivity.
The Brazilian researchers findings have been celebrated by other wellness experts in the field. Commenting on the study, Pankaj Tiwari, MD, an assistant professor of plastic surgery at the Ohio State University College of Medicine in Columbus, noted, ‘The findings highlight the importance of exercise and a healthy diet even after liposuction to prevent a compensatory weight gain and maintain the results of the procedure. If you take fat from one area, your body compensates in other areas. We gain weight for metabolic reasons and those hormonal drivers are not changed by liposuction.’ Dr. Tiwari did not take part in the study.
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