I have alot of abdominal, subcutaneous fat. Always have, was a fat kid and teen and it was mostly abdominal.
Thinking about some of the effects of capsaicin, I went and bought a coconut/capsaicin/menthol massage oil. When uses liberally it feels like I’ve just scolded myself with hot water, and the feeling persists for hours.
Now, I applied it yesterday before some light cardio, and something interesting happened. Usually, I only sweat on my back. This time, I could feel sweat running from my stomach, while my back was dry.
Is it possible the possible added circulation, ehat and water loss from that area could contribute to fat mobilization?
IMO, the sign that your back was dry, when usually soaked, and your stomach drenched, seems to me less likely that stomach fat would be burned, but the added increase in temperature from the cream and cardio made the body cool off that area with sweat.
So more-so sweat due from an increase in temperature rather than fat mobilization, even if it was the latter, I would believe that the body would, by some mechanism, redistribute fat properly during resting times. (I base this off never having seen anybody, in media or real life, with drastically different fat storage placement due to ‘spot treatment’)
Edit: Although I am relatively closed to selective fat burning, this may be applicable for water-loss in select areas, for before a photo shoot or something. Although I am not sure if one can lose water from certain areas of the body due to sweat.
Spot reduction is not possible in drastic terms, but increasing the bloodflow to areas that are usually poorly reached such as the fatcells of abdomen will help fatloss definitly as opposed to lesser bloodflow. But it won’t be anything drastic.
Try it for a few weeks and see if it gets better. On the other hand, if you have abdominal fat it just means that you are too fat and that you should lose more fat. The fat belly will be gone some time. If it’s not, you’re simply still too fat.
[quote]silverhydra wrote:
Edit: Although I am relatively closed to selective fat burning, this may be applicable for water-loss in select areas, for before a photo shoot or something. Although I am not sure if one can lose water from certain areas of the body due to sweat.[/quote]
This is what’s happening.
You’ll sweating of sub q water, not fat. Fat burning has nothing to do with sweating.
Yep, I understand the mechanisms of sweat and sweat having nothing to do with fat oxidation.
As Silverhydra and Tony Stark touched on, I was more curious as to the effects of increased bloodflow in an area during exertion.Haven’t found any studies on it yet.
I’ll try it for three months and see.
[quote]Amonero wrote:
Yep, I understand the mechanisms of sweat and sweat having nothing to do with fat oxidation.
As Silverhydra and Tony Stark touched on, I was more curious as to the effects of increased bloodflow in an area during exertion.Haven’t found any studies on it yet.
I’ll try it for three months and see.[/quote]
Definitely go with it, I would very much like to see the results from this 
I do, however, doubt any significant changes, unless the capsaicin cream can increase the release of fat more readily or increase overall metabolic rate. Both of which I doubt will happen significantly, or at all, subcutaneously. Regardless of bloodflow.
However, in this case, the actual experience will be worth more weight than my words.