Seattle Zerona doctors

The Zerona laser system for body contouring cannot do what liposuction does. While they have good data to show that if you complete the series of treatments, and exercise, diet, and take their special supplements you can lose inches, the interesting thing is that the reduction isn't limited to the areas treated with the laser. Since the laser they use doesn't really penetrate the skin anyway, I think it is reasonable to conclude that whatever effect is being achieved has little if anything to do with the laser. These are of course all things you can do on your own. Liposuction will be for precise reduction of areas that don't respond.

I actually saw a presentation on this with data from a prospective clinical trial. A few things stood out:

1. The 2 inches lost was a total of treating the abdomen, hips, and both thighs, so the reduction in each area was tiny but by adding them all together it sounds more impressive.
2. The follow-up was very short so there is no information as to whether the effect lasts.
3. There was no information presented about what exactly happens to the tissue in response to the treatment. The explanation was that the laser interacted with the fat cell membranes to make them "leaky."

It all seemed very sci-fi to me. More likely that the dietary advice given as part of the treatment protocol is the true cause of the effect.

Of course this is just a false advertising claim designed to convince the naive to pay for this treatment.  If such a claim were true, don't you think everybody and their sister and brother would have had this treatment already?