I've been researching this for days and this is all I can come up with....
Very few products applied topically can penetrate below the top layer of skin, the epidermis. As beauty therapists, we all know this. There are a few treatments available where the lower layer of skin, the dermis an be penetrated although these treatments are usually carried out by medical practitioners, not beauty therapists. As the fat cells lay below the dermis it seems to me to be impossible that this treatment can have any effect on fat cells. my guess is that the possitive results are a combination of the skin surface appearing smoother and dare I say it...fluid loss.