SLIMMING WITH INJECTION

Diets are a thing of the past. A new infiltration technique helps to eliminate fat faster and more effectively.

LATELY PEOPLE DO NOT ALWAYS talk so much about diets. Not because you have lost interest in the thin figure, but because the system of losing weight by not eating and counting calories seems to be a thing of the past.

Now it is possible to get rid of fat without hunger, by means of mesotherapy or, in other words, slimming with injections. From time to time, in social gatherings, business lunches or business breakfasts, we do not talk about anything else. Or someone knows someone who lost weight in record time, or who appears, thanks to the injections, looks five kilos less than six months ago. And while there is debate about the effects of treatment, there is no doubt that it works. And as in the matter of losing weight, the only thing that convinces the results is that slimming with injections has become fashionable.

The pioneer of this revolutionary technique in Colombia is Dr. Sergio Alejandro Rada Rodríguez. The technique is to inject a series of substances in the area where the fat accumulates, to dissolve and eliminate it more quickly. According to Rada, with a weekly infiltration you lose one or two kilos, which means to lower one size a month.

Although the technique is relatively new in Colombia, it emerged in Europe 15 years ago and since 10 is being applied in Brazil. Sergio Rada, a surgeon at the Javeriana University and specialized in aesthetic medicine in Brazil, brought her to the country four years ago, where several of her colleagues are already putting it into practice.

Mesotherapy patients are usually people who have tried all kinds of diets without major results. Especially those who enter the so-called yo-yo diet, that is to say they manage to lose kilos but also raise them again as soon as they stop dieting. "For these people, mesotherapy is the best alternative," says Rada. "It is a different and revolutionary concept because instead of stopping eating, with the usual anxiety that this produces, the treatment focuses directly on the abdomen, Thighs, hips, chin and so forth. "These drugs work only at the site of infiltration," Rada adds. It differs from others in that the substances do not go to the bloodstream, but act where you want, in an area of ​​10 centimeters. "

These substances -procedents of formulas that Rada learned in Brazil or his experience in this field- help To remove and dissolve more quickly the fat, so that it is mobilized and eliminated from the body in a natural way, that is, by the urinary or digestive tract, and that is precisely the reason for its success, since the person does not feel the anguish of seeing . others eat while she savors a lettuce, or experience the guilt of who eats a forbidden chocolate is more. as the person can follow your usual schedule of regular meals, when suspending the treatment does not return to fatten

reason By which most of the diets do not work is because the body, subjected to a fast, reacts by storing calories and lowering the metabolism to compensate for the lack of food. In graphic form it is said that the person eats an egg but assimilates a hen . With mesotherapy, the body does not undergo this process because it does not enter into a state of famine

As a complement, the patient receives - apart from recommendations on nutrition - a series of pills that should be consumed daily. These are natural weight-relieving substances - which help to burn fat - and a number of supplements, such as potassium, that prevent decompensation or that allow you to combat some problems related to obesity, such as constipation, fluid retention or thyroid deficiencies , In addition to some proteins that help to remove the sensation of appetite. "Supplements allow you to take away the anxiety of eating," says Rada. Contraindications for treatment are pregnancy,

lactation, coagulation problems, skin infections or a history of insulin-dependent diabetes. But the biggest recommendation is that the treatment be applied by a doctor with extensive experience. 

By the offices of Rada in Bogota, Cali and Barranquilla have been paraded in the last months dozens of national figures, who today appear much slimmer bodies and without making great sacrifices. The comments are "How Margarita Vidal looks", "Noemì Sanin is prettier than ever" or "Monica de Greiff now has a body as a model". But what few know is that all three have in common being Dr. Rada's patients. And not to mention the Minister of Finance, Rudolf Hommes, who, if he does not yet look very slim, has already dropped two sizes by puncture.

YOLANDA MARTINEZ, a young sportswoman, managed to lose 12 kilos in six months. "I have always been an athlete, but because of a knee injury that represented me two months of stillness, I climbed more than 10 kilos, for a long time I tried all the known diets and I did not manage to go down. In the first month, I had lost four kilos, and now six months later I went from size 10 to 8. And without stopping eating, what works in this is that there is no anxiety - you lose weight by eating the same - and you regulate The metabolism.I have friends who two years ago left the treatment and have not returned to gain weight.