The following study shows the efficacy of Whole Body Cryotherapy for weight reduction.
KRION improve the body state, makes the diet going easy, fastens the figure correction.
Research review
Whole Body Cryotherapy helps to reduce the weight. However, this is not based on calories loss during the WBC session.
The conclusion is based on the results of the dissertation work made in 2011 using KRION cryosauna.
The research was based on three groups.
- Main Group (MG) consisted of 30 persons. They had diet and WBC course.
- Control Group 1 (G1) consisted of 26 persons. They had diet and physical exercises. Physical exercises took daily around 200 ccal.
- Control group 2 (G2) consisted of 26 persons. They had only diet.
Patients of the Main Group had two courses of KRION sessions.
The first course started from the 11th day of the treatment. It consisted of 5 sessions for 5 days.
The second course of 5 sessions the patients took 10 days after the first course.
The break between the courses allowed the body to adapt smoothly to the diet therapy and cryotherapy. It was noted that the 5 sessions course does not have an inhibitory effect on the body. On the contrary, the thermoregulation system was optimized, which can be considered as a positive side effect.
In this review, we would take in consideration only a few of the indicators and values used in the dissertation:
Body mass index (BMI)
The ratio of the waist size to the size of the hips (see pic. 1)
White adipose tissue
Pic. 1
All patients in all groups were keeping diet for the whole 6 months period.
G1 was doing physical exercises all 6 months.
MG (ОГ – on the picture) had 5x2 sessions in KRION during the first month. That had caused a fascinating effect in weight loss process of MG.
Picture 2 shows BMI (ИМТ – on the picture) reduction during all 6 months of the treatment.
Pic. 2
MG (ОГ) showed the best BMI reduction results out of all groups. During the first month, BMI decreased on 4% (9% reduction during the whole treatment period).
Before the research the average BMI value was 30,62 kg/m2
MG patients decreased their BMI value to average 27,95 kg/m2.
G1 decreased their BMI to average 28,3 kg,
G2 decreased their BMI only to average 29,4 kg/m2
That means that
WBC + diet = losing 7,7 kg for a person of 1,7m height,
WBC + diet = losing 8,7kg for a person of 1,8m.
Notice that cryotherapy was used sporadically: only 10 procedures in the first month of treatment. According to the BMI graph observations, you can see that the rate of BMI is less intensive, starting from the end of the second month. It can be assumed that 5 procedures during next months would have allowed to keep the first month tempo -> thus, patients could achieve even greater results.
Aesthetics
Aesthetically it is important to see how changes the ratio of the waist size to the size of the hips.
Again MG showed much better results than G1 and G2 (see picture 3).
First month ratio reduction:
MG (ОГ) = 2%,
G1 = 0,44%
G2 = 0,11%
Conclusion. Using WBC provides with faster aesthetic effect.
Adding a course of WBC sessions monthly during the whole treatment would drive even a better effect at the end. What is also important, WBC session is a fast and comfort procedure.
The Beauty centres, nutritionists, are able to demonstrate the treatment results to the patients in a faster way.
Pic. 3
WAT Reduction
MG achieved great results in White adipose tissue (WAT) reduction during first two months.
First month the reduction reached 16,4%. However, after that the reduction slowed down (see the picture 4).
G1 WAT reduction showed a constant result during the whole 6 months treatment. Starting from the third month, it decreased on 32% which was higher than in MG (ОГ).
This proves the fact that physical exercises are the most effective for WAT reduction. This is obvious as training help to convert fat tissue into the muscles. Again, combining with cryo would provide the faster result.
Pic. 4
By analyzing the results, we can see that WBC provides with a complex normalizing effects on the body. The effects last a few months after the course is finished. This is one more important advantage of the Whole Body cryotherapy.
Leptin normalizing
Researches managed to find new valuable effects.
It is very valuable to see the changing of the leptin hormone concentration in blood. Sometimes leptin is called “the hormone of saturation”. Leptin is released by fat cells and its level determines the feeling of hunger. The fall in its concentration causes big problems for the patients to follow a diet.
Patients in all groups lost their weight. Weight reduction was mainly based on WAT reduction (for example, in MG 79% of weight loss was caused by WAT reduction). Fast WAT reduction should lead to acute hunger feeling. That is why it is a major interest to study the leptin concentration changes in the blood of MG, G1 and G2 patients.
During the first month, the MG (ОГ) leptin concentration fell down on 12%, while WAT on 16% (see picture 5).
G1 the leptin loss was 19% (which is in 1,5 times greater than in the MG). WAT decreased only by 9%.
G2 with diet only had a decrease in leptin concentration by 22%, although the WAT has decreased only by 5%
Conclusion. KRION sessions compensate the leptin reduction. The leptin level normalizes. People can take a long diet much easier.
Analyzing the leptin level graph, we see that the tempo of leptin reduction stopped. It becomes obvious that a WBC course during the third month would continue to support the low leptin level. And MG would have results better than G2.
Pic. 5
The dissertation created a reliable theoretical basis for the non-drug treatment of obesity. The obtained results not only explain the mechanism of treating obesity, but also provide the specialists with a proven and valid method for KRION clinical application.