All of our cells require energy. In order to get energy, our cells take in oxygen and produce carbon dioxide as a waste product.
A small amount of carbon dioxide gas in injected into the target area. This tricks the blood cells into treating the carbon dioxide as a waste product. Oxygen rich blood cells rush into the area to remove the carbon dioxide via the lung, and in doing so this increases the oxygen in the area. By increasing the amount of oxygen, the cells will become more active and thus: speed up any healing, accelerate new cell production and rejuvenates the area.
Treatments are generally performed on the face, neck, arms, abdomen and legs. Carboxytherapy is applied using a variable number of little punctures with a thin needle attached to a tube which delivers small amounts of carbon dioxide under the surface of the skin.
Sometimes it might be possible to observe the gas as it travels under the skin as little swellings. In the case of treating cellulite, the carbon dioxide is delivered deeper into the subcutaneous layer of the skin.
