Will CoolSculpting on the abdomen cause more visceral fat?

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If I cool sculpt the abdomen and generally maintain my weight, do you gain more visceral fat around your organs? Since cool sculpting destroys fat cells, I believe this would mean that more fat gets stored in your existing fat cells if you aren’t losing body fat percentage so therefore you are accumulating more visceral fat.

Danielle Shanley, MD · Answer

Hello and thank you for your question. You will not gain visceral fat around your organs after CoolSculpting the subcutaneous fat. If you gain weight, your fat cells that are still remaining will expand. You will not accumulate visceral fat unless you have visceral fat to being with, which you should not be doing CoolSculpting if that's the case.

Michael I. Echavez, MD · Answer

Performing CoolSculpting on the abdomen will not cause more visceral fat.  When CoolSculpting it done, it destroys a portion of the fat cells in the treated area.  This destroyed fat is disposed of by the body's immune system and does not accumulate somewhere else.

Laura A. Katz, MD · Answer

No CoolSculpting does not cause an increase in visceral fat.  CoolSculpting is a form of cryolipolysis that permanently ruptures and destroys fat cells in the specific treated area at a temperature that does not cause mutual muscle or skin damage.  The destroyed and ruptured fat cells are then cleared out of the body.  They do not relocate or accumulate elsewhere.

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