Licorice Flavonoid Oil - More Muscle, Less Fat in 16-Week RCT W/ Human Subjects W/ Only 300 mg of LFO per Day
I know this will disappoint you, but as of now, it seems as if licorice would help you burn the invisible visceral fat, only. That's healthy(-ier) than subcutaneous fat loss, but probably not how you get from lean 15% to ripped 5% body fat. In the fitness industry, licorice doesn't have a good reputation. While many report astonishing benefits of licorice extract when they recover from stimulant abuse, everyone appears to be afraid of their potential detrimental effects on testosterone; effects that are everything but well-proven (all studies from a single group of scientists, for example, i.e. Armanini, 1999, 2002, 2003 & 2004 and even the latter admit that their initial "results were not confirmed in another study, where the same amounts of licorice did not decrease salivary testosterone values" (Armanini, 2002)... For people with heart problems, the pro-cortisol effect may be an issue and many of the traditional uses, e.g. to reduce abnormal levels of the ...
