In movies, books and soap operas, liposuctions are often depicted as transformative; a patient enters obese, and leaves the surgeon looking slim. That trope, as it turns out, is another instance of fiction misinforming us about medicine. Doctors cannot simply remove all the fat cells from our bodies, whether through liposuction or through other procedures.
But why is this the case?
The Curious Science of Liposuction: Why, Exactly, Can’t Doctors Just Remove All of My Fat?
