Cool Sculpting utilizes a process known as Cryolipolysis. (Cryo = cold-induced + lipo = fat cells + lysis + the death and removal of cells.) Harvard scientists discovered the revolutionary fat reduction option. These scientists observed that fat is sensitive to cold, much more sensitive than skin cells, which consist mostly of water. You can visualize this phenomenon by imagining the difference between a glass of water and a stick of butter after placed in the refrigerator. The water gets cold, but its composition is not affected by the constant chill of the fridge. Butter is different. It undergoes a compositional change in the cold environment, becoming solid. This concept is the foundation of reducing fat by freezing fat cells. A stubborn bulge is exposed to precisely controlled cooling. The cold safely penetrates the hardy skin cells and chills the underlying fat cells. Like butter in a fridge, chilled fat cells become hard, causing their flexible membranes to rupture. Without a membrane, fat cells cannot store fat, rendering them unusable. This triggers the body’s natural process of collecting and metabolizing damaged cells, known as apoptosis. It takes several weeks for the lymphatic system to gather up the frozen fat cells. Eventually, the cells exit the body through the liver as waste.