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7 truths about body fat to help clients lose inches


7 truths about body fat to help clients lose inches

Do you adhere to the concept that all fat is bad and that fat is fat? If so, spend a few minutes learning about body contouring from a trained esthetician or other aesthetician. First of all, not all fat is the same. Second, your body uses fat cells for a variety of purposes. There are six different kinds of fat cells, third. The sort of fat you are treating must also be taken into account while giving your client advice on how to shape her body and/or creating her treatment plan.

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FACTS ABOUT FAT CELLS: WHAT YOU MAY NOT KNOW BUT NEED TO KNOW

The numerous purposes of fat. It operates as an organ, just like your heart.
• The ability to store calories as a kind of energy.
• Regulates the hormones that regulate metabolism's release.

ADVICE: According to recent research, fat cells interact with one another and may even be capable of carrying out complicated functions not yet understood.
• Aids in maintaining body temperature, hormone balance, and vitamin absorption.
• Helps our body's other cellular components function.
• Certain fat cells both burn fat and create energy.

There are six main types of fat cells in the body, and each requires a unique strategy to treatment.
• The behavior of various types of fat cells varies greatly.
• You will learn how these distinct types of fat cells should be handled in different ways through body contouring education for estheticians.

6 Fat Cell Types
Education on body contouring for estheticians and other aesthetic experts.

I. Good fat = Important Fat Cells

What serves as an essential fat?
Crucial fat aids in maintaining cell structure and regulating hormones, body temperature, and nutrient absorption. You need a specific amount of vital fat to survive.

Where can we get the necessary fat?
The lungs, liver, spleen, kidneys, intestines, muscles, bone marrow, neuron membranes, and many other organs and tissues in the body contain vital fat.

The most important thing is to treat and educate your clientele.

Necessary training in body contouring for estheticians and other cosmetic specialists.

Treatments for weight loss shouldn't be used to reduce vital fat. To sustain good health, you must maintain a specific level of necessary fat. According to the majority of specialists, women need 10–13% of their whole body weight in necessary fat.

PRO TIP: Avoid using body shaping procedures to get rid of necessary fat. Don't suggest that your client reduce necessary fat. Inform your customer of the disadvantages of having a body fat percentage below 10–13% and the significance of vital fat.

II. White Fat Cells Imply Bad Fat in Excess

How does white fat function?

When you think of "unwanted fat," you picture white fat, which is also the most likely reason why you can't fit into last year's clothes. It's not entirely harmful to have some white fat in your body. In actuality, it's essential. White fat cells have certain beneficial properties. Your body's white fat acts as cushioning for both your outward structures and interior organs.

• The three main functions of white fat are
• Energy storing (calories)
• Giving your body a cushion
• Allowing particular hormones and proteins to enter your bloodstream.

Why white fat is unhealthy fat in excess.

Speaking of releasing hormones, white fat cells create and release a hormone called leptin. Leptin regulates whether you feel full or hungry. Leptin, in other words, indicates when you should quit eating.

When you have too many white fat cells, awful things happen. You overeat because your white fat cells stop manufacturing leptin, which results in weight gain and more white fat cells. This is known as leptin resistance.

Where are white fats located?

About 90% of the fat in our bodies is white fat. A healthy female body fat percentage, according to the majority of specialists, is between 16 and 29%.

Subcutaneously
You can discover white fat subcutaneously (between your skin and muscle) in the abdomen, hips, back, arms, legs, neck, and face. (More to come on subcutaneous fat.)

Viscerally
Moreover, white visceral fat can be found in the abdomen, which is situated between your internal organs and beneath your muscle.

How to inform and care for your clients about white fat.

Necessary training in body contouring for estheticians and other cosmetic specialists.

With non-invasive body contouring procedures like vacuum therapy and lipo sculpt,  you can assist your client in reducing white fat that is present in the subcutaneous region of her body.

Currently, there is no non-invasive body contouring technology that can remove visceral fat, but according to a recent study, there may be one soon. Inform your clients that visceral white fat responds incredibly well to diet and exercise.

III. Brown fat cells equal healthy fat.

How does brown fat function?

You're ready for awe?" No fat is stored in brown fat. It is burned by brown fat, exactly like muscle.

Scientists once thought that brown fat was only present in babies. In the past, it was widely believed that as we aged, we started to lose brown fat. However numerous studies showing brown fat in adults have refuted that.

None of us have much brown fat, yet the higher amount you have the thinner you are.

Brown fat cells have a lot of potential for weight loss, according to researchers. According to a recent Harvard study, brown fat activity increased when people spent ten consecutive days in temperatures below 60 degrees Fahrenheit. There are many more research under progress.

Brown fat is where can we find it?
Brown fat can be found in adults around the aorta, collarbone, spine, and middle of the ribcage.

How to inform and care for your clients about brown fat.

Necessary training in body contouring for estheticians and other cosmetic specialists.

You should desire to enhance brown fat rather than eliminate it.
Although scientists are constantly looking for ways, experts don't currently know of any way to boost brown fat.

When behaving "beiged," beige fat is good fat.

Why is beige fat there?
Beige fat cells resemble both white and brown fat in appearance and behavior.
Beige fat cells can burn energy, like brown fat cells.

It is still unclear from the evidence whether beige fat cells are a distinct type or whether certain circumstances might cause white fat cells to transform into beige fat cells. Exercise and exposure to cold temperatures are thought to be the two factors that start the "beiging" process.

Where is beige fat located?
Little amounts of beige fat are present all over the body. Along the spine and collarbone are where the largest quantities are found.

How to inform and care for your clients—Beige Fat.

Necessary training in body contouring for estheticians and other cosmetic specialists.

It is not advisable to reduce beige fat. You might even wish to promote the transformation of white fat into beige fat by exercising and exposing yourself to chilly temperatures.

Encourage your clients who want to shed weight or reduce fat to increase their exercise so that their bodies can produce more beige fat. According to studies, muscles generate specific proteins during exercise that may aid in turning white fat into beige.

How else could white fat be changed to beige? Although we don't think it's particularly practical, we'll nonetheless tell you about it. According to a Japanese study, participants who spent at least two hours a day in temperatures as low as 62 degrees Fahrenheit (without wearing warm gear) had higher percentages of brown fat.

fat types according to where they are found in the body.
That completes the list of fat cell kinds. Now let's go to ramifications and varied advise and treatment recommendations depending on where the fat is located within the body: subcutaneous and visceral.

White fat called subcutaneous fat is found between the skin and the muscles.

Where is subcutaneous fat located, and what is it?
Subcutaneous fat can be "pinch an inch" thick. It is situated on the surface, close to our muscles and skin.

On the thighs, abdomen, hips, back, buttocks, neck, and arms, this white fat tends to build up.

As long as you are not medically obese, subcutaneous fat has not been demonstrated to raise the chance of developing health issues.

Subcutaneous Fat: How to educate and treat your clients.

Necessary training in body contouring for estheticians and other cosmetic specialists.
Non-invasive body contouring procedures like vacuum therapy and lipo sculpt might assist your client in getting rid of white fat that is under her skin.

Inform your client that while a balanced diet and some moderate exercise can assist the therapies work well, subcutaneous fat is resistant to diet and exercise. Find out more about the reasons why your clients want body contouring procedures to eliminate extra fat.

VI. White fat that is found inside the abdominal cavity and beneath the muscle is called visceral fat.

Where is visceral fat found and what does it do?
White visceral fat surrounds organs like the heart, liver, and intestines and is found deep inside the abdominal cavity.

When you think of 'beer belly,' you're visualizing visceral fat. Visceral fat makes the abdomen feel rigid, not soft and pinchable.

Many health issues, including hypertension, stroke, some malignancies, and dementia, can be brought on by visceral fat.

How to treat and educate your customers about visceral fat.

Necessary training in body contouring for estheticians and other cosmetic specialists.

Medical science has not developed a surgical or non-surgical solution for visceral fat over the many years that we have provided body contouring services. This could change shortly, though. An successful non-invasive procedure using concentrated high-intensity electromagnetic energy reduced visceral fat by 14%, according to a recent study. Although more research is required, we are optimistic about the potential.

The good news is that diet and exercise have a significant positive impact on visceral fat. Your clients frequently have visceral and subcutaneous fat. In these circumstances, suggest a procedure to treat the subcutaneous fat, such as vacuum therapy, and diet and exercise to address the visceral fat.





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