Cellulite – The Consequences of Women's Eternal Enemy Are Known, But Do We Know the Causes?

Written by: Dr. Kenan Vrca

About cellulite, methods of its „removal“, various „miracle“ creams and preparations, and other „effective“ solutions against this eternal enemy of aesthetics and women's beauty, perhaps as much has been written as this edition of the column has words.  Hundreds of times, and yet the problem for most women remains unresolved. Therefore, perhaps it is necessary to look at the possible causes of the problem, rather than unsuccessfully trying to solve the consequences?

Research by the World Health Organization shows that eight out of ten women suffer from a "chronic disease" called cellulite. This eternal enemy of women is, most simply put, "fat" in the form of swellings, lumps and bumps, which particularly accumulates in the upper thighs, buttocks, abdominal region, and knees. It forms in the connective tissue, and this substance (which is not of uniform thickness everywhere) gives the female body its curves.  When the process of eliminating harmful substances is slowed down in areas prone to cellulite, and water and waste materials accumulate, the connective tissue thickens, leading to the formation of immobile pockets that resemble the famous orange peel.

Nevertheless, cellulite has not always been viewed as a skin flaw that should be corrected or a „disease“ that should be cured.  On the contrary, until the 19th century, cellulite, along with a curvaceous body, represented the ideal of female beauty.   Famous artists of the Baroque era gladly depicted cellulite deposits on women in their masterpieces. Not even the word cellulite entered dictionaries until 1873, when a French medical dictionary officially gave a name to what would soon become a problem. 

Then, in 1933, another French monthly magazine published an article describing cellulite as an infection and a disease that needed to be cured.

Thus, from an ideal of beauty to an undesirable disease, the awareness and perception of cellulite deposits changed, and it was from France that the fight against cellulite as a reflection of an unhealthy lifestyle began, with the launch of the first anti-cellulite creams on the market. Today, women are presented with a wide range of creams and treatments to combat cellulite, whereby every choice, from then until now, relies exclusively on the consequences of this problem, and falsely and impossibly guarantees its permanent solution in advance.

On the other hand, the causes of cellulite can be various, ranging from poor diet, disordered and unhealthy lifestyle, stress, fatigue, lack of physical activity, but the most important is what happens at the level of the cell and the intercellular space, where cellulite actually originates.

However, according to integrative medicine and our method of thermoregulation, the main cause of this annoying enemy of women is the imbalance and disharmony of the three basic pillars of metabolism – the stomach, the thyroid gland, and especially the lymph, which plays the most important role in the final stage of thickened skin formation, given that at that moment it is completely frozen and non-functional (it does not cleanse metabolic waste).

This leads to narrowing of the capillaries in the skin because skin nutrition becomes weaker and fatty tissue gradually turns into fibrous – scar tissue, while the most important proteins for skin elasticity, collagen and elastin, are not produced, and over time, women's skin, most often on the thighs, takes on the appearance of the aforementioned, famous orange peel.  Thus, the consequences occur, namely – cellulite.

Therefore, Planet zdravja BH has a personal and special approach to each patient facing the problem of cellulite. We focus on the causes of its appearance, using our diagnostics to determine the state of the three mentioned pillars of the body, as well as 130 other different biochemical, hemodynamic and immunological parameters of the body, all without drawing blood – painlessly and completely safe for everyone.

Our therapy, on the other hand, in the case of cellulite, is based on four levels, namely: balancing metabolism, advice on healthy nutrition, lymph treatment, and prescribing adequate physical activity. In this way, we address the causes of cellulite, instead of unsuccessfully trying to focus on its consequences, which are all too familiar to us and equally irrelevant.

Try it yourself, and until next time, stay healthy and smiling, or become so!