Cellulite and how to fight it

Cellulite is more of a women's problem, since male physiology does not include this nasty orange peel. But women have to find the most ingenious means to combat cellulite, especially in the thigh area.

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What is cellulite?

This is not only an unsightly appearance of the skin, but also internal changes in the subcutaneous fat tissue. Metabolism is disrupted, the fatty tissue is clogged with toxins, blood does not flow into it, and therefore all harmful substances are not removed from the muscle and fat tissue. This tissue can no longer become smooth and beautiful until the blood flow in it is improved.

Lymphatic flow is also hampered, and small nodules are easily felt under the skin, which are difficult to remove. It is enough to squeeze the skin of the thigh or buttocks with your fingers - and the orange peel becomes clearly visible. In the last stages of cellulite, the orange peel is visible even without squeezing the skin with your fingers.

Is cellulite an inflammation or not?

Several decades ago, it was believed that cellulite is an inflammatory process. But this is not true. Research shows that cellulite is not an inflammatory process.

One of the theories of the origin of this disease states that cellulite occurs due to hormonal imbalance in the body. In particular, sex hormones influence the development of cellulite. If cellulite occurs due to obesity, then the culprit of its development may be the incorrect functioning of the thyroid gland. Then cellulite is treated, and otherwise - if this disease is not accompanied by other disorders in the body, in our country cellulite is usually corrected as a cosmetic defect, and not as a serious disease.

Bulimia as a cause of cellulite

Bulimia is a terrible disease that provokes attacks of brutal appetite, and then the person makes himself vomit. Because of bulimia, the metabolism slows down, the person cannot control his weight and gains weight.

French doctors believe that cellulite can arise from bulimia, in particular, from overeating. Bulimia is an indicator that, in addition to this disease, a number of other diseases are developing in the body. These may include thyrotoxicosis, diabetes, neurosis. All these diseases are associated with excess weight and cellulite.

If you have a problem with increased appetite, you need to change your lifestyle. You need to eat less flour, sweets, fatty and spicy food, and also exercise. Sometimes people overeat in order to calm down and get joy from food. This is the fastest and easiest source of positive energy. But if you replace this source with other, more active ones, you can bring yourself much more benefit in the fight for a good figure.

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At-risk groups

Overweight women are more prone to cellulite, although it can also occur in thin women. Both need to establish a healthier diet and include vitamins in the menu.

More than 300 diets are officially registered in the world. And women use at least one of these diets to lose weight. Many of them lose weight incorrectly: first, they exclude fats and carbohydrates from their diet, and then quickly gain weight. This does not contribute to the fight against cellulite. Statistics show that only one in 200 women pulls herself together and can maintain her weight after dieting for more than a year.

Where is cellulite concentrated?

The thighs and buttocks are where orange peel appears first and there is the most of it. It was ignored for many years, but in America women decided that their thighs and buttocks should be smooth and even, so orange peel was dubbed "cellulite", which is Latin for "cell".

Cellulite diagnostics

Whether you have cellulite or not can be checked at a diagnostic center or dermatology department. There is a special computer diagnostics that will help determine at what stage of development cellulite is and whether it is present at all.

If cellulite is present, the woman will have an incorrect ratio of muscle tissue and subcutaneous fat, and there will be insufficient tissue fluid. At the initial stage of cellulite development, special treatment is not needed, it is enough to change the diet and increase physical activity. At later stages of cellulite development, special drugs will already be needed.

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Cellulite treatment abroad

There it is treated as a separate serious disorder in the human body, so they undertake to treat it even if the person is otherwise healthy. In America, they pay special attention to those women who are in menopause.

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Understanding that this disease is associated with insufficient production of many hormones, cellulite is treated with ointments and creams containing hormones. These creams contain testosterone and progesterone hormones, which help fight orange peel.

Methods of combating cellulite

Since cellulite affects every fifth woman aged 30-40, doctors in our country practice a new direction in medicine - aesthetic endocrinology. This is a science that uses hormonal treatment methods to eliminate skin defects.

We remove concomitant diseases

These diseases may include infectious inflammations, lymph and blood flow disorders, posture defects, varicose veins, osteoporosis, and leg swelling.

It is necessary to remove infections from the body. To fight them, it is necessary to take anti-inflammatory and anti-infective drugs as recommended by a doctor. Infections can also be in the oral cavity, in diseased teeth and gums. To eliminate them, it is necessary to contact a dentist.

Need to correct posture

This can be done through special exercises, including with the help of orthopedic devices. If a person slouches, has posture defects, this can cause stagnation of lymph, blood, and these stagnation can disrupt blood flow in all parts of the body, including the thighs, buttocks - the concentration of cellulite.

To get rid of cellulite, it is important to get rid of varicose veins

Varicose veins involve stagnation in the veins and disruption of blood flow in them. There is only one circulatory system, so stagnation in the veins of the legs provokes cellulite - stagnation in the subcutaneous fat tissue.

It is necessary to get rid of leg swelling

This can be achieved by using diuretics and taking medications as recommended by a doctor. Swollen legs can be caused by hormonal changes in women over 35-40 years of age.

Before menstruation begins, a woman's estrogen levels increase. This affects blood and lymph flow, and her legs may swell. This may be accompanied by flatulence (involuntary release of gases).

It is necessary to improve the functioning of the gastrointestinal tract

This can be done on the recommendation of a doctor with the help of medications and diet. When a person's intestines and stomach work well, blood and lymph flow will also improve. In addition, it will be easier to take vitamins and other useful substances that were previously not absorbed due to poor intestinal function.

You need to quit smoking

Smoking hinders the flow of oxygen into the blood and provokes venous congestion. Smoking also provokes vascular thrombosis, which causes the risk of cellulite due to the accumulation of toxins in the tissues.

Initial stage of cellulite

How to check if you have a tendency to develop cellulite? Stand in front of a mirror, straighten your back, put your hands at your sides. Put your legs in the "together" position. Raise your hands up.

Watch your thighs. If they have a thickening on top, and there was none before, then this could be the initial stage of cellulite development.

If you still doubt whether you have cellulite, squeeze the skin on your thighs with your fingers - thumb and index. If you see bumps between your fingers, then cellulite has already taken you into its tenacious clutches.

If this is not an indicator for you, consult a specialist - a dermatologist or endocrinologist.

How to fight cellulite correctly?

It is important to formulate your diet in such a way that you do not have days of fasting and days of overeating. With such a diet, fats begin to be deposited "in reserve". Metabolism slows down in such a way that fat deposits become more and more.

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They are mainly deposited on the waist and hips.

Such unstable nutrition, in addition to cellulite, leads to side effects. Research by British specialists has shown that strict diets worsen memory and brain activity in general.

Particularly dangerous are the so-called fast diets, when a person limits himself in almost everything, and mono-diets, when the diet is maximally unbalanced.

Traditional medicine methods for treating cellulite

With the help of these recipes, a person can remove the manifestations of cellulite, lose weight, reduce swelling of the legs, and cope with other associated diseases that provoke orange peel.

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Recipe to reduce appetite

To reduce your appetite, you can use this recipe. Brew corn silk with a glass of boiling water. Let it steep for 6 hours and strain. You can take this infusion for 14 days, then take a month off.

Dosage: 30 drops 4 times a day before meals.

Infusion to speed up metabolism

To activate metabolism, you can prepare this herbal mixture. Take 3 parts fennel fruits and 3 parts chamomile flowers, 4 parts black elderberry and 4 parts peppermint (leaves). Pour a glass of boiling water and leave for 3-4 hours. Drink the infusion 1 tablespoon 3 times a day for 2 weeks. Then take a week break and continue the course of treatment.

Infusion against edema

If cellulite is accompanied by swelling of the legs and constipation, it is worth taking this infusion. It fights swelling and cellulite well, and also activates metabolism.

Take three parts of buckthorn bark, one part of dandelion roots, one part of fennel fruits and one part of parsley roots, one part of peppermint leaves. Pour boiling water over all of this and leave for 24 hours. Then take the strained infusion every day, 400 g on an empty stomach. The course of treatment is up to 10 weeks.

Piekha's Diet

Edita Piekha's diet helps fight cellulite deposits and excess weight. Instead of meat, you need to eat fish (no more than once every 2 weeks), or meat can be replaced with legumes. The menu should include cabbage, beets, corn, mushrooms, cereals (only semolina should be excluded, it contributes to the accumulation of extra pounds.

There are almost no tomatoes or potatoes in the Piekha menu, but there are carrots, and it is better to almost completely exclude cheese, eggs, and milk from the diet, because they are poorly absorbed by the body of an adult.

Piekha almost never salts her products, and if you want something salty, you can use soy sauce. Sugar also contributes to cellulite deposits, it is better to replace it with honey diluted in water.

As for bread, it is better not to eat white bread – rye bread, black or grey bread is healthier. After eating, a person should have a slight feeling of hunger. You need to get up and walk instead of lying down. Walking is very good for improving metabolism and preventing cellulite. It is best to practice walking for at least 30-40 minutes in a row.

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How to choose the right anti-cellulite diet?

The main principle of a proper diet is to reduce salt and sugar in your diet to a minimum – there is enough of them in the food products we eat. If a person eats a lot of fruits and vegetables, his stomach and intestines work better, because there is a lot of fiber in vegetables and fruits. It makes it possible to activate metabolic processes, in particular, the metabolism of fatty acids.

Zucchini contains the most fiber, carrots, cranberries, and seaweed are also good in this sense. The latter also contains a lot of iodine, which improves the function of the thyroid gland, activates the production of hormones by this organ and improves fat metabolism.

Losing weight without starvation

This method of losing weight was suggested by physiologist Minvaleev from the city of St. Petersburg. Thanks to this method of losing weight, the body does not experience stress, because of which the metabolism and the person usually slow down, but, on the contrary, gains weight, accumulates fat. If you do not expose the body to stress, it achieves the goal that you set for yourself - to lose excess weight.

Research has shown that the energy a person spends today is replenished in two days. Therefore, one should also save on food in two days - this allows a person to lose weight quickly and without stress. What does it mean to save on food? That is, on the third day after physical activity, you need to have a good breakfast, and this menu should include minerals and vitamins.

But instead of lunch and dinner you need to drink. Either green tea, or coffee, or herbal infusions. Caffeine, which is contained in coffee beans or black tea, helps to release glucose and release it into the blood.

Caffeine is called a sympathoadrenal drug because of its property of making glucose in the blood a free substance. In addition to drinks with caffeine, drink a drink with rose hips for dinner (it has many vitamins). For taste and to increase immunity, add honey.

With this diet, the body will replenish energy reserves from fat tissue reserves, and not from the food you eat. Thanks to this method, you will be able to lose weight comfortably, but at the same time not to destroy the condition of the skin, nails, hair, not to slow down the metabolism.

Replenishment of fluid in the body

The body retains fluid, especially when eating salty foods. Fluid retention is one of the main causes of cellulite. Therefore, it is necessary to remove salts from the body, as well as toxins that accumulate "on dry rations." To do this, you need to drink a lot of water - at least two liters per day.

What are the risks of losing weight with pills?

If a person wants to lose weight and at the same time deal with cellulite, they should not do this with slimming teas, slimming pills, or oral fat-burning drugs. This can not only disrupt the functioning of the gastrointestinal tract, but also disrupt the water-salt metabolism in the body, and at the same time, the metabolism of fats.

As a result, a person's legs begin to swell, buttocks and thighs gain weight, and the orange peel does not go away. In addition, it is also impossible to cope with excess weight due to metabolic disorders.

But even if a person eats sensibly, this is not enough to combat cellulite - physical exercise and comfortable shoes are also needed.

Harm of anti-cellulite creams

If advertisers promise an instant effect from an anti-cellulite cream, don’t be fooled: this won’t happen.

Anti-cellulite cream will not make orange peel disappear. Complex measures are needed. That is, the substances contained in creams promote the breakdown of fats, but only if the cream is combined with massage. The hands of a massage therapist can work wonders in the fight against cellulite, breaking down fat deposits and freeing up an outlet for toxins.

But if a woman relies only on the effect of the cream, she will do herself more harm than good - there will be no effect without massage movements.

How to soften fatty tissue?

Massage improves blood flow, lymph flow, allows fat deposits to become thinner, softer, break down and as a result (not immediately) be eliminated. It is known that the softer the fatty tissue, the faster it breaks down and disappears. And along with it - the orange peel.

To make the massage more effective, you need to take a hot shower before it, this opens the pores of the skin and softens it, preparing it for the massage. To break up the orange peel, it is better to massage the skin with a hard glove or brush. Particular attention should be paid to problem areas - buttocks, thighs, waist, shins. This can be a good alternative to anti-cellulite cream or gel.

How to maintain the health of problem areas?

To maintain loose cellulite skin, you need to wear compression tights. In the warm season, these can be tights of 70 den and more. They distribute blood flow evenly along the inner part of the leg, so the condition of the veins gradually improves, and the risk of cellulite decreases.

Tights with a support effect improve the condition of muscle tissue, speed up metabolism, and also help you look slimmer.

Tights with a tightening effect have such an effect only temporarily, so they should not be worn every day. Otherwise, the veins on the legs will be compressed and, conversely, the blood flow will slow down, blood clots may occur. This only increases the risk of cellulite, not reduces it. Therefore, you need to approach the choice of tights wisely and planned. A couple of tights with a tightening effect is enough, and all the rest - with a supporting effect, for frequent wear.

Physiotherapy for cellulite elimination

Effective physiotherapy procedures include:

• Myostimulation
• Lymphatic drainage
• Electroliposis

These procedures are based on pulsed currents that affect the skin and subcutaneous fat tissue, activating blood flow and lymph flow, increasing elasticity and density of tissue. This improves tissue nutrition and oxygenation, and the skin looks healthier and more beautiful.

Anti-cellulite treatments

Ultrasound procedures give good results. Ultrasound helps reduce swelling and fat deposits.

Anti-cellulite wraps with algae also help to deal with orange peel and promote weight loss.

Wraps with algae provide the opportunity to saturate the body with useful microelements: iron, zinc, calcium, sulfur, iodine, phosphorus. These substances help reduce cellulite deposits.

Mud treatments

They also have an anti-cellulite effect. Mud wraps give the skin the opportunity to create a greenhouse effect. This allows you to open pores, improve blood flow, remove toxins from the body through the skin. After such procedures, the skin tightens, becomes elastic and smooth, its color becomes even and beautiful.

Surgical intervention

It will help to cope with cellulite, especially if the orange peel is in the last stages of development. Surgical intervention should not be allowed if a woman has blood, vascular, heart diseases, poor blood clotting.

There is also a surgical method of influencing cellulite – liposuction, this is one of the methods of plastic surgery. With the help of this method, by means of vacuum suction of fat, the doctor can return the figure to its previous outlines or make them much more beautiful.

During the liposuction procedure, the doctor removes excess fat deposits, even if the woman is already old and her skin has become flabby and has lost its former smoothness. The surgeon who performs liposuction changes the structure of the subcutaneous fat tissue so that toxins are not deposited in it and lymph does not stagnate. Liposuction can affect problematic parts of the body: buttocks, thighs, shins, abdomen.

Gymnastics

This method is very good for getting rid of cellulite - it allows you to improve blood flow, lymph flow, lose weight, slim down and make your skin smoother. This method does not require any money or much effort - only the desire to deal with cellulite.