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Diet + Exercise + Kitchen Sink Fat Burner Promote Weight Loss in Two-Months Study on Overweight Adults. Additional 2kg Fat Loss - Are Ozzy's Raspberries to "Blame"?

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No this is not Liza Oz after taking Mehmet's beloved RK supplements ;-) The Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition is one of the few "major" scientific journals, where scientists can actually publish those studies, "healthy freaks" (no, not "health freaks", but people who are still healthy and thus freaks ;-) like us are interested in. Studies such as the one Hector L Lopez and his colleagues conducted; studies that investigate the effects and effectiveness of dietary supplements such as Prograde Metabolism (TM), a proprietary blend "fat burner" containing your usual blend of B-vitamins, chromium, caffeine, citrus aurantium, ginger, garlic, capsaicin, l-theanine and piper nigrum... ah, and of course as the #1 ingredient on the label Raspberry-K (TM). Too much blubber? "Grab the rasp and berry it off!" Ah, well... Hold on, another of those "proprietary blend studies"? Can we even trust the data...
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Fighting to Stay Lean? These 20+ Anti-Obesity Agents Have the Potential to Inhibit Fat Gain Right at the Cellular Level

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No, none of the 20 agents in the list below is going to do the work for you, but they could help you "conserve" the results, keep you lean on a bulk and/or avoid the hazardous Yoyo effect when you go off a die. It's actually normal that the introduction is the last part of an article I write. What's special about today's SuppVersity article is thus not that I write the introduction at the end, but that I did not really know what I would be writing here, when I set out to compile the unsorted (but not chaotic) list of potential anti-obesity agents below. All of them act by pathway(s) you as a SuppVersity reader will have read about before, most prominently AMPK , and the peroxisome proliferator receptors (PPARs), of which the blockade of the obesogenic PPAR-gamma pathway, which is the main working principle of CLA turned out to be the go-to explanation for the ability of these agents to block both the differentiation of adipocytes and the storage of tr...
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Epigallocatechin Gallate (EGCG), Capsaicins, Piperine & Carnitine: Rather a Health Than a Fat Loss Stack?

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That's not what the ultimate weight loss diet looks like. The pill remains a supplement, i.e. something to supplement (and support) your dietary and exercise efforts, nothing more, but - as long as you pick the right one for your type and goal - also nothing less (photo ehow.com) Let me first remind you of the fact that something that works in your obese neighbor does not necessarily work as effectively in someone like yourself, a devoted physical culturist who is only a couple of steps away from the six pack he has always been dreaming of. Let me also emphasize the fact that taking the supplement alone, i.e without the -600kcal reduction in energy intake all of the 86 overweight subjects (healthy males and females aged 25–45 years, with a body mass index greater than 25 kg/m² less than 35 kg/m²) had to stick to, there probably wouldn't have been any weight loss at all. And lastly, let me also formulate the hypothesis that the various health benefits, such as the increases ...
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-16% Abdominal Fat on a Cornstarch Diet? No Problem If You Add 4 Teaspoons of Black Pepper to Your Meals!

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Image 1: According to Wood et al. ( 1988 ) black pepper contains between 3-8% piperine. A teaspoon of black pepper would thus deliver have 60-160mg piperine, which would mean that you would have to swallow roughly 4 of those to get the fat loss effect (if it does translate to humans) I don't know if you have realized it, but if you are taking any "high quality" dietary supplements, chances are that one of the minor ingredients on its label is "piperine", the alkaloid that is responsible for the pungent taste of black pepper. The reason, why manufacturers keep adding this spicy ingredient to their formulas is not its anti-oxidant potency, not its stimulating effect on the digestive enzymes of pancreas or even its ability to significantly reduce the gastrointestinal food transit time, no it is because piperine messes with the way your liver metabolizes drugs (piperine inhibits both the drug transporter P-glycoprotein and the major drug-metabolizing enzyme ...
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Bioperine: Why is it Part of Your Fat Burner?

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Chemical structure of piperine from Piper nigrum (Wikipedia.com) More and more fat burners and other dietary supplement contain the patented pepper extract Bioperine . Supplement producers as well as patent holders claim that the extract that is highly standardized (95%) for piperine, a polysaccharide from black pepper ( Piper nigrum ), would ( Sabinsa. 2009 ) increases blood supply to the GI tract increases emulsifying content of the gut increases active nutrient transport and thus facilitate nutrient absorption. Unfortunately, respective advertisements, as well as the information provided on the website of the patent holder , do not give references to scientific investigations. Reason enough for the SuppVersity to try and differentiate fact from fiction, BRO- from PRO-science.
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