Silicone replacement therapy

I am not posting this because it's likely to promote health. I'm posting it because it's interesting. I am entirely at peace with the possibility of it leading to an early death.

With that in mind:

When women with silicone breast implants get old, the result is disturbing. I'm sure you've seen the pictures circulating on the internet. It seems to me that a more radical approach to silicone implants would bring something which might at a stretch be seen as benefits.

Some adipose tissue is essential to health although there are a few people born with none, who have serious problems as a result. This minimum healthy quantity should be left. However, the breasts (female or male), greater and lesser omenta, buttocks and the layers lining the kidneys, limbs and face are not completely vital as a source of energy for the body. The other functions of fat include insulation and mechanical protection.

I therefore suggest the removal of these areas of fat, which amount to an average of something like a fifth of the body weight in both sexes, and their replacement by ideally sized and shaped silicone implants. These would in fact make the body slightly heavier but this would not be observable. I further suggest that these implants contain a device which can heat them to body temperature by induction, containing a thermostat which cuts out at a healthy body temperature.

This body modification would have several results. It would dramatically reduce the requirement for energy from food while creating the facility to warm the body electrically more efficiently than at present - less need to heat buildings. It would make it easier to avoid weight gain as there would be fewer places to put the fat. The body's response to insulin would change - at first, my impression was that this would increase the risk of diabetes but there is some evidence that removing the canine greater omentum improves responsiveness to insulin. There would be a rapid and convenient treatment for hypothermia. There would also be almost inevitably cardiomyopathy and fatty liver disease. However, since you would die young, you wouldn't reach the stage where everything but the implants would go saggy and make it look awful, so that's OK.

Also, you could do the Fight Club thing and maybe sell soap made from celebrities or achieve a long period of self-sufficiency in the bathroom, and you could extract the glycerol from that and live off it for a while too. Since your life would be quite a bit shorter, this would be of a greater relative advantage than if you just left the fat inside languishing rather than using it for other purposes.