Does "Cool Sculpting" Really Work?

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#Cryolipolysis was only discovered in the last couple of decades, and now it’s everywhere — marketed under the name #CoolSculpting. There are commercials on tv, online, and in print advertising this seemingly magical way to remove fat cells from your body. It seems counterintuitive — melt fat away by cooling it ¯\(°_o)/¯ and yet, the science seems to show that it works!

When I compare this medical procedure to the crazy that is liposuction (suck out your fat!) or Botox (inject botulism into your face!) then slightly cooling adipose tissue doesn't seem that nuts, but still; you feel me on this?! I’m trying to be as skeptical as I can, but there is so little research out there that based on what’s been done NOW it’s a very strange, and yet effective (maybe) procedure?! I AM SO CONFLICTED. What do you think?

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Here is an original model that was done on a pig to test the process:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1524-4725.2009.01259.x

Aesthetics of Plastic Surgery Journal piece that I mentioned… (it’s small)
https://bourrel-esthetique.com/cryolipolyse/doc-cryolipolise.pdf

Here is a study on whether the process works (and it seems to!)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4079633/

This is terrible website design, but you can see some pictures of before and after (it’s not a huge difference, but again, it’s part of the medical establishment and they say it seems to work):
https://www.asds.net/skin-experts/skin-treatments/cryolipolysis/cryolipolysis-for-excess-fat

Medical News Today did a really nice breakdown if you want to know more
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/322060.php

Here’s a few more papers reviewing efficacy and available literature
https://academic.oup.com/asj/article/35/7/830/2589179/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5118516/

…including one that’s attempting to confirm the mechanism of action and found it might be cryothermogenesis
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5954866/

And the one guy who got Paradoxical Adipose Hyperplasia
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4171727/

This is the paper I cut from the video because it was done by scientists who have stock in CoolSculpting’s parent company (ew)
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/f213/5bf97449e984001094fa6c239789b02d2ea4.pdf

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P.S — Skepticism is a healthy thing for journalists, scientists and problem-solvers of all types, but this week’s video really shocked me. I had to initially check myself (which is also why it’s coming a bit late)
P.P.S — I can’t believe I got to shoot this at the YouTube Space! That seemed so out of reach just a year ago, and yet… here we are. Thank you!!!!!!

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