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You will remember that this is not the first time capsaicin made it into the SuppVersity  news - as a fat burner and potential ergogenic that is | learn more . That capsaicin is a relatively powerful metabolic isn't news. In  Nutrition Research  Rigamonti et al. write: "Studies in animals and humans have shown that capsaicin decreases food intake and increases energy expenditure, stimulates fat oxidation, regulates appetite (by decreasing hunger and increasing satiety), and modifies the expression of some hypothalamic peptides implicated in food intake" ( Rigamonti 2018 ) - effects of which the authors highlight that they have been observed in both, lean and overweight adults, but not in "obese adolescents, who are at high risk to become obese adults and for whom effective multidisciplinary integrated body weight reduction programs are needed" (ibid). If you develop too much stomach acid,  bicarbonate may help + it has ergogenic effects, too! Caffeine...

Everyone will know somebody who managed to build an impressive physique with meal-timing. The question you cannot answer, however, is whether that's due to the timing or rather his/her mindful eating habits, healthy food choices and overall controlled energy intake. Originally, people thought about dieting quite mechanistically. With health and fitness becoming more important than religion to many people, this has changed significantly and we've seen various trends ranging from the low-fat fad in the 1980s to the anti-fructose movement of the early 2000s and the ketogenic revival 10 years later. Eventually, the transient nature of all these trends did yet confirm one thing: the macronutrient of your diets may influence if and how much fat/muscle weight you lose or gain, but it's only one out of several parameters that determine the way(s) in which your diet will affect your health and body composition. Another factor that has been recognized to do just that is nutrien...

You don't have to switch to eating pills, only. Don't worry. What you will still have to do, though, is to (a) clean up your diet, (b) stop eating everything in sight, and (c) achieve a caloric deficit. With its ability to reduce hunger and appetite, cathine may yet help you make that happen.  Let's be honest: ever since the classic ECA stacks have been banned from the market, there are neither over-the-counter, nor prescription weight loss supplements/drugs that work. Scientists from the Technical University of Munich (Germany | Hauner 2017) believe they can change that. Not by inventing a revolutionary new compound, but  by digging out a cousin of ... you guessed it: the good old ephedrine. Cathine is the name of the agent that was originally launched in the 1970s for the short-term treatment of diet-related obesity. Cathine is an alkaloid originally isolated from khat leaves grown in East Africa and the Arab peninsula and is a stable metabolite of cathinone, which ...

Red peppers - too hot for you? CH-19 Sweet is non-pungent pepper w/ similar metabolic effects ( Ohnuki 2001a ) You will probably have encountered capsaicin in one or another kitchen-sink supplement in the past. Probably without knowing if and how much it contributed to the fat loss and/or performance effects of said product. I promise: After reading this extended review of a recent study by de Freitas, Cholewa, Freire et al. (2017) your perspective on this "ah, it also contains ... wtf" ingredient may change significantly. Why's that? Well, next to previously cited, latest and greatest research on the ergogenic effects  of capsaicin, there's also a bunch of quite exciting papers on its ability to help you lose body fat  and promote your metabolic and overall health . Learn more about alleged and true fat burner at the SuppVersity For Caffeine, Timing Matters! 45 Min or More? DMAA (Jack3D) - The Good, the Bad & the Evil How 'Harmless' are T...