WHAT ARE THE PHASES OF CELLULITE?
Adipose tissue develops slowly into cellulite in different phases.
-Interstitial oedema: Because of a change in intra-capillary pressure an increase in capillary permeability appears that transfers leaking liquids and molecularly heavy protein molecules to the connective tissue. This excess of permeability and an interstitial flood are the origin of a lymphatic overload and the beginning of an oedema. The intra-capillary hyperpressure is responsible for the fragility of the vascular walls, and from there comes an increase of bothersome changes. The freeing of aggressive substances like histamine, seratonine, and prostaglandins, unchain what are called inflammatory reactions.
-If the excess of proteins are not depolymerised by the macrophages, there is a fibroblastic stimulation that provokes the formation of a fibrous net that includes adiposities. These adiposities are hypertrophied due to not getting an adequate amount of metabolic exchange with an edematized interstitium and are embedded with toxins. It is because of this that the first micronodules form and later macro-nodules buried in connective tissue, identified by palpitations.
-Then we arrive to the sclerosis phase with maximum fibrosis and usually compressed nerve endings making the cellulite painful and ending a vicious cycle of vascular and tissue imbalance.
In this way, facing the same factors, this process occurs in a different manner in males and females.