Who is a good candidate for mesotherapy?
Any adult between the ages 16 to 75 who is in good health is a potential candidate for mesotherapy and may benefit from localized fat spot reduction, and cellulite reduction. The ideal candidate for mesotherapy is someone who exercises regularly, is within 25 pounds of ideal body weight, and has normal deposits of fat or cellulite that haven’t responded to diet and exercise.
Critics say mesotherapy offers slim chance By Maria Puente, USA TODAY Call it “hope in a needle.” Mesotherapy, the latest fat-melting fad, is a half-century-old technique from France that involves hundreds of injections and is touted as an alternative to liposuction. “It’s more than hope in a bottle,” says Marion Shapiro, a retired emergency room doctor in New York who has started a new career as a “mesotherapist,” injecting people with a cocktail of plant extracts, vitamins and medications (such as a drug for treating asthma). The concoction is supposed to stimulate fat cells to shed fat. “Our results are not surgical, there are fewer complications and less downtime, and that’s why mesotherapy is going to become more popular than liposuction,” Shapiro says. It’s called mesotherapy because the injections go under the skin and are absorbed by the mesodermal, or middle, layer. Then, you’re supposed to shed weight the same way you do when you diet and exercise, excreting fat in waste. But
