Well, hello, hello, guys. You're listening to Beauty Bites with Dr. K., Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon, and it's time for a five-minute Friday.

I'm going to teach you all about wood therapy. And what the heck is wood therapy? Well, it is

trending. It's a Google trend, and it's a trend in aesthetics. Wood therapy is a vigorous

massaging technique. You might have sent people doing this on their bodies, extremities,

areas where they have cellulite, where they want to get sculpted, molded, and tightened up.

And we see this being done with wooden tools, hence the term wood therapy.

Often handheld tools like rolling pins, vacuum and suctioning devices, and cups.

These are all used to help stimulate circulation, lymphatic blood flow, and they're used all over

the body. These wood therapies began in Asia. We've even seen them in South America. Wood or

Madeira, Spanish for wood, and you Madeira, Medellopoeia,

that has been popular in South America for a long, a long time. And practitioners of Wood Therapy claim

that it reduces or eliminates cellulite, that it improves lymphatic circulation, wrinkles, alleviating stress,

and giving you a whole bunch of other benefits.

It is a massage technique, so definitely you will get the experience of the benefits of a massage,

like stress and tension relief, relaxation, but there's really no evidence that you can

maintain these benefits long-term

when it comes to looking at skin structure, cellulite, dimpling, stretch marks, and fatty areas.

When you do an aggressive lymphatic massage, you can compress extracellular fluid from the extracellular

matrix of your soft tissues.

And we sometimes retain so much fluid due to water retention from salt and dietary

indiscretions that you can be carrying up to one to two pounds of extra water weight in your

body tissues. So models and people who need people who need to look good

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