Mesolipo, often marketed as "fat-melting injections" or "injection lipolysis," has become one of the most heavily advertised non-surgical fat reduction treatments in the Philippines. Beauty clinics, aesthetic centres, and increasingly, home-based practitioners all offer some version of it, usually promising visible fat reduction without surgery, without downtime, and at a fraction of the cost of liposuction. For patients considering it, the appeal is clear. For physicians who

Pregnancy changes the body in profound ways. Among the most persistent, and least discussed, is what happens to the skin of the abdomen after delivery. For many women, particularly after significant weight gain during pregnancy or multiple pregnancies, the stomach skin does not simply spring back once the baby is born and the weight comes off. What remains is a softness, a looseness, a crepe-like quality to the skin that no amount of core exercise or clean eating seems to ful