Obesity and overweight can have a negative influence on health, due to the complications that accompany them. The Nutrition and Antiaging Unit aims to reduce body fat and improve associated diseases, such as diabetes, high blood pressure, joint pain or lack of energy, improving the patient’s quality of life and life expectancy.
Weight loss treatments must be 100% individualized.
Before undergoing any weight loss treatment, it is necessary to take into account the body composition of each person, as well as their specific nutritional needs. This is the only way to achieve lasting results without harming our health. For this purpose, a previous body study will be carried out in a meticulous way, with anthropometry, which will allow us to establish a personalized plan. It must be taken into account that overweight and obesity are problems that must be treated comprehensively by the specialist, always on an individualized basis, since personal, social and morphological circumstances must be assessed.
The objective of any weight loss treatment will always be to create a healthy eating habit that, in turn, responds to the particular needs of the patient.
Metabolic study, the best treatment for weight loss
The calories needed by each person and the immediate principles used (carbohydrates, fats or proteins) are one of the functions of the mitochondria cells. With the study of energy metabolism (both at rest and during physical exercise) it is possible to evaluate the capacity of the mitochondria to reduce energy and to know what type of food is being used. Thus, it is possible to know in a scientific way what is the optimal diet, as well as what type of exercise and intensity is the most appropriate for weight loss, possible cardio-metabolic diseases, aging or anti-aging and immune system.
The metabolic study, both at rest and during physical exercise, is the only way to know which foods are more or less fattening for each person. It is a test that is carried out during a 3-hour fasting period. The patient must be lying on a stretcher face up, breathing through a mask, which is connected with a tube to a gas analyzer device. The technology used is called indirect calorimetry, and assesses the formation of heat by the body and where the calories burned come from (whether from fats, carbohydrates or proteins). It is a painless and innocuous technique, which only consists of the patient being relaxed for about 20 minutes.
Recovering the figure by combining body treatments with diet.
Depending on the characteristics of each individual, the specialist will make a personalized diet that can be combined with body treatments, in addition to physical exercise.
Some of these treatments will be:
- Electrotherapy. Medical Electro Stimulation and ultrasound of various powers and frequencies are techniques that favor the stimulation of the venous and lymphatic system, reducing cellulite, activating the fatty tissue to increase its energy expenditure and benefiting the post-surgical recovery in operations such as liposuction.
- Pressotherapy. It is indicated in disorders of vascular insufficiency, cellulite, varicose veins, obesity, lymphedema or edema, among other pathologies.
- Body radiofrequency. It is indicated for flaccidity and cellulite. With the action of heat, immediate skin tightening is achieved, stimulating the creation of collagen.
- Elimination of localized fat. Abdominal fat requires a multifactorial treatment: you have to watch your diet, plan a specific localized treatment with medical equipment and, of course, do physical exercises that help the final objective. Ultrasound is one technique, destroying fat cells and favoring volume loss. In this way the contour is reduced and fat accumulations are treated, without the need for surgery.