Q: Spot reducing is a sham. Don’t we all know that?
A: This is the typically espoused assumption, and is in most cases correct. When one consumes less calories then one’s body burns, a caloric deficit is created which your body must make up for. The human body typically combats this deficit through an increase in lipolysis (fat burning). Due to many genetic and hormonal variations, fat may not be lost in a proportional manner; that is, one may lose more weight from one’s arms and legs than one will from his or her abs and hips.
Even so, when any type of significant lipolysis occurs, the body is in a manner “spot reducing.” Several areas on the body experience a decrease in girth in response to caloric deficit. This “spot reduction” is an effect, not a cause. The misconception regarding “spot reduction” largely originates from the fact that most assume this to mean the elimination of fat from a given area with the use of a magical crème which initiates lipolysis WITHOUT caloric deficit, or the use of toning exercises erroneously believed to reduce fat concentrations in a specific area. This is simply not possible.
There can be no spot reduction without caloric deficit. The problem in the past has been that we have had very little control in determining the areas from which the body will preferentially burn fat. As already established, caloric deficit alone will result in lipolysis, though its effects will be experienced to a greater degree in some areas (“spots”) as opposed to others. Control of this process has in the past been largely beyond our reach.
With the exception of the topical Yohimbine HCl products that have preceded Lipoderm-Y, these topical “fat burners” failed to address the issue of systemic uptake (overall distribution into the blood stream), and were nothing more than diuretics. Unlike the false claims put forth by the manufacturers of these diuretic agents, Lipoderm-Y does not pretend to generate a controllable spot reducing effect without a concurrent caloric deficit.
As opposed to internal events dictating the origin of the fat stores to be released and burned for fuel, this process can now be largely controlled externally with Lipoderm-Y; it will release fat from the site of application and allow a degree of control over the patterns in which fat loss will occur.
Instead of reducing your calories, and then internally waiting for your body to release fat from those “trouble spots” which are reluctant to let go of adipose tissue, Lipoderm-Y,yohimburn, releases the fat from the site(s) of application, and when combined with a caloric deficit, results in the effective realization of controllable “spot-reduction.”
