There are plenty of products that are available online that can promise you a healthier lifestyle or weight loss. Indiegogo is certainly home to a lot of health gadgets that don’t always have the best of reviews, and this is its latest one.
The TrimX electrical fat stimulator promises to target the most stubborn fat deposits on your body and essentially blast them away with gentle waves of electrical current (and regular exercise).
Sounds a bit familiar, like the ab-firming belts from the likes of Slendertone, which in fact the US FDA clears only for therapeutic use and not weight loss, however, the TrimX is supposedly a gadget to stimulate the fat rather than muscle.
What the company claims to be ‘the world’s first fat spot reduction wearable technology,’ the TrimX is ‘clinically proven to allow you to gain control over your body.’
The Indiegogo page states a ten week, triple-blind study that showed TrimX users losing 4.7 times more fat around their targeted areas than a placebo-controlled group that also experienced general fat loss, however, there were no details of the number of participants.
The product claims that although you can lose weight in other ways, in doing it this way the users can pick the area it was taken away from.
There are many researchers that believe there are no technological shortcuts to achieving physiological goals.
Weight loss and body image are serious topics and substantial issues in the developed world, but technological shortcuts to achieving your physiological goals do not necessarily work.
The FDA is reluctant to approve electrical muscle stimulators for fat reduction, even though they do work your muscles support this argument. The regulator unequivocally stated: “No EMS devices have been cleared at this time for weight loss, girth reduction, or for obtaining ‘rock hard’ abs.”
The Indiegogo campaign is live now and is asking backers for an amount of $189 plus shipping. It does state on the site that it may be a while for the item to be delivered as the TrimX are dependent on obtaining regulatory approval in each region: “International shipments will take place after the appropriate clearance from the relevant government certifications has been received.”
As much as there will always be a new weight loss, health craze gadget there is always the traditional idea of going to the gym.
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