Warm weather can be embarrassing for people struggling with those last pounds of fat around the middle, particularly if they’ve been working out and eating right but can’t get rid of the excess ‘abundance’. Selectively destroying the fat is controlled by the impedance or resistance of the tissue, with fat having the higest, and thus heats up to a temperature that causes cell death, a controlled form of cell death termed “apoptosis.” The other tissues are lower restance and better tolerate higher temperatures. Frequencies employed are best matched with the impedance of deep tissue and specifically affect those layers. The elimination of fat cells leads to a decreased thickness of the fat layer in the area of Vanquish treatment.