TriPollar™ POSE™ Self Use Fat Reduction Device For Tummy Fat

We all want to burn body fat as much as possible for weight loss, body reshaping, health and wellbeing. We all wish to trim that butt, eliminate cellulite, smooth love handles and reduce the belly.

The Basics of Fat Burn

Calories in, calories out. The body burns a mix of carbohydrate and fat for energy. How much of either depends on your physical activity. When you use more energy than you take in from food and drink, the body burns stored fat and carbohydrates, and then protein, to fuel your daily activities.

It is well established in medical research that people are able to lose large amounts of weight by gradually reducing the volume of stored fat at the individual fat cell level (by as much as several orders of magnitude i.e. 100 to 1,000 times) by the process of lipolysis. The aesthetic problem for most people who achieve modest or even significant degrees of weight loss, is that the fat tissue volume reduction is often not lost from the specific body sites they desire (e.g. tummy, buttock, thigh), but occurs rather unpredictably from other body areas.

Aesthetic non-invasive treatments using controlled radio-frequency energy source have recently become the gold standard in professional clinics for body contouring and reshaping i.e. reducing fat from specific areas on the body. Historically, the primary use of RF energy source was for medical treatments. Electro-medical methods and apparatus have been used in the past for various surgical and therapeutic procedures.Modern RF systems for aesthetic treatments use an RF source in one of the two configurations: Bi-Polar and Monoi-Polar. For heating the adipose (fat) tissue, a Mono-polar configuration is less beneficial since the electrical current will find the way with less electrical resistance to flow in the body (i.e. blood and lymphatic vessels). In a Bi-polar configuration the depth of penetration under the skin is determined by the distance between electrodes thus for a given system the depth of penetration is constant and can’t be changed for various body areas or different skin conditions. Moreover, most of these systems must use a cooling system in order to prevent skin overheating (and potential for burn) thus reducing the efficacy of the RF treatment and achieving moderate aesthetic results.

This article describes a new professional RF technology adapted for self use in the UK and worldwide, the 3rd generation TriPollar™ RF technology invented by Pollogen Ltd. In use by leading doctors and high-end clinics worldwide. This same technology is now available for home-use by sister company Ultragen Ltd.

CELLULITE AND ADIPOSE (FAT) TISSUE

Recent studies shows that the initial changes leading to formation of cellulite is due to the deterioration of the dermal micro-vascular system, leading to excess body fluid retention within the dermal and subcutaneous skin layers. This loss of capillary network in the skin is thought to be due to enlarged fat cells clumping together and inhibiting venous return. Fat cells in cellulite are not different from those in the adipose tissue covering the entire body.  

Adipose tissue "fat" is created by aggregations of fat cells containing stored fat in the form of single droplets of triacylglycerol. Fat tissue is comprised of clusters of fat cells ranging in size from small fat cells to large mature fat cells. Typically they have spherical shape. A single fat cell is 95% fat by volume. The cell nucleus is displaced to one side by the accumulated lipid and the cytoplasm is reduced to a thin rim. Each individual fat cell has large numbers of hormone and other receptors in the cell wall. Each fat cell is surrounded by delicate reticular fibers. In the angular spaces between the cells are capillaries and nerve supplies that form a loose plexus throughout the tissue. Adipose tissue is subdivided into small lobules by connective tissue septa. This compartment-alization, visible with the naked eye, is most obvious in regions where the fat is subjected to pressure and has a cushioning or shock-absorbing effect. In other regions, the connective tissue septa are thinner and the lobular organization of the tissue is less apparent.

Adipose tissue is distributed in the subcutaneous layer of the skin and exhibits regional differences influenced by genes, age, sex, activity levels and eating habits. Adipose tissue collectively constitutes a large diffuse "organ" that is metabolically very active; it is primarily engaged in the uptake and release of lipid or fat. As a result of release, the caloric content of the lipid stored in the fat can be made available as energy to cells in other parts of the body. At body temperature, the lipid in fat cell is present as liquid oil. It consists of triacylglycerol, each made up of three molecules of fatty acid esterified to glycerol.

Infants and young children have a continuous subcutaneous layer of fat. As the young child grows the fat layer thins out in some regions of the body but persists and grows thicker in certain sites of predilection. These sites differ between sexes and are largely responsible for the characteristic contour differences in male and female body form.

The diversity of human shape or contours seen in differing individual bodily fat accumulations depends on a complex combination of factors such as, age, sex, lifestyle, genetic and hormonal influences.

Cellulite formation stages

The process of cellulite formation from the normal skin can be divided schematically into 4 phases:

• PHASE ONE: The overlying skin begins to bulge as excess fat is stored in the subcutaneous fat cells.
• PHASE TWO: Accumulating fatty deposits compress the circulation to create congestion. As congestion increases, fluid and sugars leak out of the vessels to form complex sugar chains that draw even more fluid out of the vasculature.
• PHASE THREE: Fat cells begin to organize within fibrous nets to become fatty lobules. These fatty lobules invade the skin’s dermis to create more skin dimpling.
• PHASE FOUR: Cellulite formation is promoted by the proliferation and contraction of fibrous tissue between fatty lobules combined with the continued growth and organization of fatty lobule groups

BIOCHEMISTRY OF BODY FAT

Lipolysis is the physiological mechanism by which adipose tissues "mobilize" or release the stored fat to make it available as energy for metabolic activities. Free Fatty Acids (FFA) are the specific molecular energy substrate of lipolysis, and are used by many body tissues as an alternate energy substrate to glucose. Muscles in particular utilize very large amounts of FFA in a regular fashion. Muscles throughout the body have an enormous capacity to utilize FFA released by the lipolytic process. Research has firmly established that hormones, specifically catecholamines (epinephrine and non-epinephrine), are the principal naturally occurring lipolytic hormones that initiate human lipolytic processes via fat cell adrenergic receptors.

Like any chemical reaction all enzyme-mediated biological reaction rates, including those of adipose tissue (lipolysis), are temperature sensitive. Increasing the temperature of the fat cells by 10°C increases the lipolytic process rate by factor of 2 (i.e. increasing the rate of liquid fat release). Increasing the temperature of fat cells above 43°C results in protein denatoration and irreversible damage to the fat cell. Thus creating the effect of selective heating of fat cells simultaneously in the dermis and subcutaneous fat layer is desirable for cellulite reduction.

SELECTIVE ELECTRO-HEATING USING TriPollar™ TECHNOLOGY

The wavelengths associated with RF in the frequency range 1-100MHz are considerably longer than the dimensions of parts of the human body. For example, at 1MHz the wavelength in free space is approximately 300m. With a dielectric constant in tissue as high as 100, this would correspond to a wavelength in tissue of 30m. Thus the electric field (E) and magnetic field (B) of the RF wave close to the applicator can be considered to be stationary. For conduction heating the quasi-static B field is the major contributor to the heating process by its associated induced high-frequency current, while in capacitive heating the E field is dominate and the heating process is discussed in terms of displacement current. For selective electro-heating of fat capacitive heating is better than inductive heating due to the large electrical resistance of fat cells (roughly 2000 Ohm-cm for fat, 600 Ohm-cm for skin and 400 Ohm-cm for viscera).

Now a new fat burning, collagen boosting, body contouring device powered by professional TriPollar™ technology, adapted for use in the home enviorment is available. The TriPollar™ POSE™ clinical skin tightening device for body.

TriPollar™ POSE™, a sleek, hand held device which is clinically proven to shrink stubborn fat deposits reduce cellulite and increase dermal collagen production launches in the UK, followed by France, Germany and Italy, to give immediate and long lasting results of a smoother, firmer, more contoured body from the comfort of your own home.

TriPollar™ POSE™ is the only at-home device powered by the professional TriPollar™  Radio Frequency (RF) technology which has been clinically proven to reduce fat and cellulite and help generate inch-loss giving a reshaped and redefined silhouette.

TriPollar® POSE™ clinical results

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