...but it's never too late to freeze your butt off...

A non-invasive procedure designed to freeze-out cellulite.

Faddish cryotherapy spas—reverse saunas in which below-zero temperatures allegedly tighten skin—may not have arrived stateside yet (they’re already hot in Europe), but the FDA is on the verge of approving an innovative fat-blasting device that could give new meaning to the phrase “freezing your ass off.” Cryolipolysis is a noninvasive procedure in which a doctor places a coffee-saucer-size suction-cup-like apparatus on the skin to gradually extract body heat until the subcutaneous levels of fat are frozen. Because the epidermis remains within a normal temperature range (and is also fundamentally more resistant to cold), skin remains undamaged. “Think of it as being essentially like an air-conditioning compressor,” says New York dermatologist David J. Goldberg, MD, who is involved in clinical trials of Cryolipolysis for the FDA. “The heat that gets sucked out of the fat layer is deposited in the outer layer on its way out, so the skin is protected.”

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