The Anti-Fat Shot

[grnmchn]

The Anti-Fat Shot

Anti-fat shots take a jab at your flab.

In the procedure often referred to as Lipodissolve, injectable fat removal, or injection lipolysis, a mixture of drugs is injected into a site on the body where someone wants to reduce fat. The shot can theoretically be used just about anywhere, whether it’s on your love handles, thighs, chin, abs, arms, or under your eyes.

Reality Check
The injections are legal but unregulated.

By law, any physician can ask a pharmacy to combine the two drugs (phosphatidylcholine and deoxycholate) which together make up this anti-fat formula. But the pharmacies that customize such drugs, called compounding pharmacies, are not regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The FDA has issued cautionary statements, but they won’t be overseeing the pharmacies any time soon. Doctors who order the shots and administer them to patients do so with no medically recognized guidelines or limitations.

Reality Check
There has been a tide of warnings against the shot from medical organizations.

Without any formal oversight by government agencies or medical societies, one can’t be sure whether the drug compound is safe or even if it works.

Patient testimonials and the before-and-after shots flaunted by companies like Fig. and MedSculpt advertise patient experiences that very well may have been positive. But without clinical studies, we have no idea whether such cases are the norm or the exception. Loose estimates are that 20 percent of people getting the shot do not respond. Some of the side effects noted so far include blackened skin, lumps, ripples, and bumps that don’t go away, bee-sting like pain, bruising, and swelling. Patient complaints against Fig., for one, prompted a warning from the Better Business Bureau.

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Legit studies will shed light on the drug’s safety and efficacy.

Dr. Leroy Young, plastic surgeon with BodyAesthetic Plastic Surgery in St. Louis, is awaiting final approval for a formal study on injection lypolysis. He’s been scratching his head as to why the FDA has an elaborate process for clearing his study when the drug is commercially available with no government oversight. “The FDA does not feel it has authority over compounding pharmacies, and that’s where these drugs come from,” he says. “I think this is a regulatory loophole because it allows [physicians] to start treating people when there’s little or no proof of safety and efficacy.”

As part of a training program, Young himself received an anti-fat injection. He confirms that it hurt but after six months saw no change from his single shot (“Maybe I just fell within that 20 percent of non-responders,” he allows). Young and his colleagues aim to test 20 people with abdominal injections to one side.

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The fat goes away, but no one’s quite sure where it goes.

So far it’s understood that the injection kills fat cells and dissolves the fat those cells held. But what exactly happens to the dissolved fat is an unanswered question. If the fat winds up in your bloodstream, where it can clog arteries and cause heart disease, wouldn’t you rather have the double chin? The idea that the fat is simply taken up into the liver and excreted, as some have theorized hopefully, is bunk.

Reality Check
The shot will be a terrific treatment for zapping away fat … if it works.

The anti-fat shot promises advantages no other treatment offers. Injections can be administered in a doctor’s office, so it may be a fast and effective option for people who don’t want to undergo surgery. Small sites on the body can be pinpointed, and the shot may be a good post-procedure treatment when minor lumps of fat remain after liposuction.

“I hope it works! The best thing for me would be if it does work,” says the open-minded Young, whose own practice hinges on cosmetic treatments. “But it really bothered me ethically and morally that somebody could just go and use something that hasn’t been studied thoroughly.”

[THE BOUNCER]

First time I have seen it. I am sure it will be abused and then made illegal. Myself, I would rather just diet but I am sure millions of fat ass Americans would love to suck down their cheeseburgers while giving them selves the shot at the same time.

[FitnessBrat]

Weird! People will buy it regardless of cost or side-effect though.

[Mr incredible]

I used thymucase once before a comp, injected it between my abs, worked pretty well but I was way down when I used it, would have loked stupid otherwise

[grnmchn]

I wonder how mishapen it could make you look? As in, if you used it more in one area than in another. It has the potential to contort/disform your body, I'd imagine.

[THE BOUNCER]

Originally Posted by grnmchn

I wonder how mishapen it could make you look? As in, if you used it more in one area than in another. It has the potential to contort/disform your body, I'd imagine.

ya, i see a lot of bad things happening with this.

[Scrumhalf]

Originally Posted by grnmchn

I wonder how mishapen it could make you look? As in, if you used it more in one area than in another. It has the potential to contort/disform your body, I'd imagine.

Not just that, as the article said, even it if did work, I wonder how much of the fat gets redeposited in someplace infinitely more dangerous like the inside walls of the arteries. If I had excess fat, I'd rather it stayed in my love handles than get coated in my arteries.

[blm]

This is the only anti-fat shot you need!

[rado]

People are so fucking lazy to train...Whatever.

[Control]

Wow, you can order it right off the internet. Who's gonna be the guinea pig?

[tracylyn]

I had a very small pouch of fat right above my c-section incision line that would not go away. It didn't matter how clean I ate, hours of training & cardio, chemicals or the 16%BF. It was this or going under the knife. I could not stand to look at it anymore.

I had it done at a place called FIG in conroe. Over 6 weeks I had 60cc injected into my lower abdomen right above my c-section insicion. I could only have 10cc at a time because the area was very small. It not only "dissolved" the fat but firmed the area too. I never had any side effects health wise but it burned, itched and bruised like a bitch for about 3 days. Where the fat went, i haven't got a clue but it wasn't my heart. Matter of fact, I went in last week for my final consultation and my health is perfect, except LDL was a little high, but that is for other reasons.

I even did a 6 week bulk cycle recently and that pouch never came back. It worked for what little I needed, however, I wasn't shoving cheeseburgers down my throat looking for a quick remedy.

As far as the looking disfigured. While I was there a lady who proudly stated that she had lost 4" in her lower abdomen in FIVE months without changing her diet. Is now having injections in her upper abdomen because it's hanging over her pants. I was even privy to see a picture of it! She definelty looked disfigured and fucked up!

[THE BOUNCER]

Originally Posted by tracylyn

I had a very small pouch of fat right above my c-section incision line that would not go away. It didn't matter how clean I ate, hours of training & cardio, chemicals or the 16%BF. It was this or going under the knife. I could not stand to look at it anymore.

I had it done at a place called FIG in conroe. Over 6 weeks I had 60cc injected into my lower abdomen right above my c-section insicion. I could only have 10cc at a time because the area was very small. It not only "dissolved" the fat but firmed the area too. I never had any side effects health wise but it burned, itched and bruised like a bitch for about 3 days. Where the fat went, i haven't got a clue but it wasn't my heart. Matter of fact, I went in last week for my final consultation and my health is perfect, except LDL was a little high, but that is for other reasons.

I even did a 6 week bulk cycle recently and that pouch never came back. It worked for what little I needed, however, I wasn't shoving cheeseburgers down my throat looking for a quick remedy.

As far as the looking disfigured. While I was there a lady who proudly stated that she had lost 4" in her lower abdomen in FIVE months without changing her diet. Is now having injections in her upper abdomen because it's hanging over her pants. I was even privy to see a picture of it! She definelty looked disfigured and fucked up!

good post and good info. for someone like you and in your situation, this injection is good. but i fear most Americans are like that lady you referred to. sad how dumb people can be.

[FrankTheTank55]

Does anyone know what is in the shot or what its called? My buddy and his wife are taking something like this. He said it was called Helius or something like that, Im wondering if this is the same thing he is taking.

[THE BOUNCER]

Originally Posted by FrankTheTank55

Does anyone know what is in the shot or what its called? My buddy and his wife are taking something like this. He said it was called Helius or something like that, Im wondering if this is the same thing he is taking.

as it says in the second line of the article. lol

phosphatidylcholine and deoxycholate

[FrankTheTank55]

Originally Posted by THE BOUNCER

as it says in the second line of the article. lol

phosphatidylcholine and deoxycholate

Oh, when I see a words that big I just skip em...lol

[THE BOUNCER]

Originally Posted by FrankTheTank55

Oh, when I see a words that big I just skip em...lol

[FitnessBrat]

Very interesting tracylyn - and that is definitely NOT being "lazy", your reasons are totally different. That's awesome to hear it worked for you too!