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Everything you Need to Know about LLLT for Weight Loss.

We at TryItDietSisters tried out the LLLT, or Light Contouring Treatment at Dr. Logan’s Office in Cedar City, Ut.

We then interviewed him about the whole process off LLT.

Excerpts from the interview with Dr. Logan about LLLT.

 

 “What Is LLLT?”

“It’s technically called Low-level light or laser therapy. LLLT.

Its been researched since about the 60’s. In fact NASA was the first to utilize LLLT or laser therapy for wound healing in space.”

(you can check out this highly-detailed article about NASA and LLLT Here https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4272231/)

“Does it have any other effects on our body besides losing inches?”

“It does have a great deal of benefits to our overall body besides the fat cell decrease, but that is obviously what we are using it for.

There are a lot of things that light actually affects. There have been studies done on neuropathy, and rheumatoid arthritis.

LLLT helps with wound healing, inflammation, increases the collagen and elasticin in the skin so it helps tighten the skin.

It can help in chronic pain relief.

It creates nitric oxide which opens up the blood vessels of the body and so it can affect all kinds of things.

They’ve even been utilizing Light Therapy for kidney failure.

They can’t give drugs for kidney failure because drugs kill the kidney. And so they’ve been using with some success with this low level light therapy to increase circulation to the kidneys and it seems to be helping.

so if you can think of what overall circulation increase could do for your body, that’s kind of what it does.”

Here at Body Contouring, we are looking at the effects of what it can do for fat release.

the machine is a 635 nano meter wavelength that is a near infrared.

Bottom line is that it seems to trigger the fat cells to open up and dumps the contents into the body.”

“What is different about this machine and other light machines?”

“When they first started using this light technology for weight loss, it was a box with lights that they would put on an arm, then a leg, on your stomach . . . just one section at a time, then move the box. And it was very expensive. like in the $75,000 range for the unit.

Even plastic surgeons use this kind of procedure before they do liposuction because it liquefies the fat. So they get a better pull of the fat content out of their patients.

But what was needed, was a conservative, non-invasive approach to body contouring.

So then the next new thing, would come in panels, they would come in 4  inches to 8 inches full of lights. You would get these little blocks and then you would strap them onto your body. So you would still have to move them around your body. And that still was pretty expensive.

But this machine that I have, has about 1,000 of these small lights that go on it. It covers the whole trunk of the body, stomach down to the hips – front and back. And we also have 2 smaller ones  that can overlap onto thighs or arms, and we also have a face mask.

So we can do 3-4 areas all at the same time. so that is a significant plus.”

“How Does the LLLT work?”

“When they’ve done the electron microscopy – where they put the electron microscope on the fat cells,  the fat cells look like grapes. Well, after 20 minutes of the low level light, the fat cells look like raisins. So it doesn’t kill the fat cells, but it does open and dumps.”

“Is it Permanent?”

“So when I talk to people, I tell them, is that it will be permanent IF YOU DON’T REFILL THE CELL.   You have got to eliminate or reduce your sugar and starches, or it will fill right up. So ultimately its not as effective if the person won’t keep a healthy lifestyle obviously.”

“What do we have to do afterwards to keep off the fat?”

“Once your fat cells open and it dumps the content, then your body has to process the content and so it has to go through the liver and the lymph.

So whatever movement you do is important. (try a quick H.I.I.T, or an easy 30 minute at home workout)

We put people on the full body vibration machine for ten minutes immediately afterwards to help stimulate and start that process. (another machine at the office)

You’ll want to drink lots of water. Water is good for flushing. you have to flush it out of your system.”

“How often can we get the treatment?”

“The fat flushing process will continue for up to 15 hours.

So we don’t do a treatment every day, but we can do it as much as every other day.”

“Will we lose inches every single time?”

“The measuring is somewhat inconsistent, which is a challenge. But you can lose usually about maybe a 1/2 inch in circumference in 20 minutes.

The most frustrating thing about this is the measuring. We Measure before and after. If someone gets a package of treatments we don’t measure every time, but about every week or 2. The biggest challenge is that there is more than one therapist, and they measure differently, or there is tightening or pulling of the measuring tape. different people, different techniques.

Plus the fact when we are measuring the gut, if you have gas, or have eaten inflammatory things that bloat you up, or ‘that time of the month’. . . So there are certain things that can make the numbers discouraging, it is what it is.”

Usually the inflammation or bloating is transitory, and we should see a nice difference from the beginning to the end, from the first session to the last. People who have more to lose, will lose more. it’s not everything in the weight loss process, but it is a  great adjunct therapy to help in the overall weight loss package.”

-End of Interview.

We were of course, interested in trying out this Light Machine.

Check out When we tried the LLLT Machine Here and our results.