Cellulite
It is a regional aesthetic skin problem caused by the fat cells under the skin, which is often likened to the appearance of an orange peel, causing an indented appearance on the skin.
Unfortunately, the vast majority of women complain about this image that occurs due to the lack of oestrogen hormone, known as the female hormone.
It is a regional aesthetic skin problem caused by the fat cells under the skin, which is often likened to the appearance of an orange peel, causing an indented appearance on the skin.
Unfortunately, the vast majority of women complain about this image that occurs due to the lack of oestrogen hormone, known as the female hormone.
Why Does Cellulite Occur?
The main causes of this disease which is caused many reasons:
Genetic predisposition, excessive consumption of bad carbohydrates, regional fattening due to weight gain, inadequate nutrition, low water consumption, excessive consumption of caffeinated products such as cola and filter coffee, alcohol consumption, sedentary life, sitting too long during the day. And even crossing your legs while sitting a long time…
How Does Cellulite Occur?
If you are curious about this subject and want to understand it thoroughly and then search for solutions, you must first understand the structure under the skin.
Simply put, there is a layer just under the skin where fat can hold on to. This layer consists of very small chambers. These small chambers are connected to each other by very thin nerves called fibrous tape (connective tissue).
These fibrous tapes extend in different directions in men and women. With the effect of the testosterone hormone, tapes (connective tissue) in men extend horizontally to the skin layer. For women, the situation is the opposite.
The tapes(fibrous tapes) that connect the fat chambers in women under the influence of the oestrogen hormone lie vertical to the skin surface. As the nutrients that cause fat formation are taken into the body, they are stored in the fat chambers under the skin.
When the fat starts to be stored excessively, it can no longer fit into these chambers. In addition to excessive fat intake, consuming foods that slow blood circulation and are difficult to remove from the body, malnutrition, leading a sedentary life, wearing too tight clothes, etc….
Also, cause wear and tear of fibrous tapes. When all these reasons come together, the fats that cannot fit into the fat chambers expand the chambers they are in overtime, the fibrous tapes that hold the chambers together wear out and begin to shorten.
As it gets shorter, it pulls the skin to which it is attached, that is, downwards. As the skin is pulled back, prominent pits form on the outside of the skin. The name of this view is; the nightmare of women, endless cellulite.
Like in geography lessons, “How is the stretch of the mountains against the sea?” You can compare the subject. While on some coasts the mountains lie perpendicular to the sea, on some coasts the mountains lie parallel to the sea. Much more indentations and protrusions occur on the coasts where the mountains extend perpendicular to the sea.
Fibrous tapes of women are like mountains stretching perpendicular to the sea. As a result of this extension, an indented skin structure is formed.
Of course, in order for this to appear to occur on human skin, there must be triggering reasons (especially the reasons we mentioned in the title “Why Cellulite Occurs?“).
In short, the main factor in the formation of this disease is the hormone estrogen. Due to this hormone, also known as the female hormone, the tapes connecting the fat chambers under the skin lie perpendicular to the skin, the opposite of the testosterone hormone.
When this way of attachment is combined with the causes of cellulite mentioned above, women, mostly, are faced with the orange peel appearance of the skin.
Why Cellulite Occurs at a Young Age?
This problem, which appeared at a later age in previous years, has now become a situation encountered at very young ages, even in adolescents. Some skin experts point to today’s changing living conditions as the reason for this situation.
Young people lead a more antisocial and stagnant lifestyle compared to the past. Of course, an individual who spends all day in front of the computer and does not get up and move will have a higher chance of getting cellulite at a younger age.
Along with these, humanity is faced with a universal habit of eating fast food and ready-to-eat food with extended shelf life, which is very common especially among young people.
Fast food products contain bad carbohydrates and excess fats that are difficult to remove from the body. Foods with extended shelf life also contain sodium to keep them on the shelf longer. Sodium is a substance retained in the body.
It causes oedema in the body and is difficult to remove from the body. When such foods are consumed, they cause the formation of toxic substances in fatty areas where lymphatic circulation (blood circulation) is slow.
Since the vascularity is low and the blood circulation is very low, the fatty areas will age and wear out over time, thus accelerating cellulite.
