Written on Friday, November 21st, 2008 by Miroslav Nikolov
Weight loss supplement guide (17-22)
This is the end of the week and I want to finish it with brief review of another 6 weight loss supplements. Supplements are very helpful if you know how to use them.
In some of the supplement reviews I use notions to show you that these supplement properties are proven and studied by scientists before I even knew anything about them.
As I mentioned in “Supplement guide introduction“, “Supplement Guide Continuation (5 - 10)” and “Supplement guide - next 6 (11-16)” follow the doses and experiment if you want to have best results.
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Highly recommended for everyday usage. |
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These supplements help your efforts. Some of them work indirectly and sometimes are more expensive than 5 star supplements. |
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Some of these supplements help you to achieve specific goals and work individual (have different effect). |
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These supplements are for people with specific needs. Often they are more expensive or work better in different situations – for example many of them work better for beginners, others work better for advanced training people. |
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| Based on their function in our body supplements have at least one main property. Some of them have more properties – in this case their properties here are ordered so that their main property is first one. | ||||
| S – Strength | F – Fat loss | E – Energy | H – Health | B – Brain stimulation |
OK, let start.
1) Pyruvate F E
Pyruvate increases fat loss process and decreases fat store. It also increases energy production – i.e. lengthen the time for exercising before tiredness threshold. Pyruvate has the ability to improve glucose (from the food) absorption of the muscles, which keeps muscle glycogen.
Doses: 1-4gr pyruvate 2-4 times per day on empty stomach as one of the doses has to be taken 1 hour before training.
2) Fish oil H F S
May be you know much about fish oil, because it is very popular among nutritionist circles. It contains essential Omega-3 fatty acids “eicosapentaenoic (EPA)” and “docosahexaenoic acid (DHA)” – both are very popular. These amino acids have many pluses: reduce the risk of cardiac diseases, prevent muscle dissociation, speed up articulation recovery, improve brain work and stimulate fat loss process.
Doses: 2-6gr per day separated in two doses with food.
Fish oil is not the only one, which contains Omega-3 fatty acids. More Omega-3 and Omega-6 fatty acids you can find in kernels - “Kernels weight loss pluses“.
3) Ribose S E
Ribose is a component of the Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) molecule. As you know ATP is the energy “currency” of the cells. It improves training quality during repetition – i.e. it won’t make you stronger in the first set, but in the second and third set you will be able to complete more repeats, because its intake as supplement will restore ATP level after intensive weight and cardio trainings.
Doses: 5-20gr per day separated in two doses, usually after training.
4) Soy protein H
The Soya is great vegetable source of protein. Their isoflavonoid content makes it very good for our health and possible cancer prevention. Many athletes (men) are worried about is estrogen stimulating effect, but for healthy adult men, who consume protein from other sources too, this is not a problem. A Research compared the effect of soy protein shake took two times a day, with whey protein and results showed that for 12 weeks both of them increase “lean muscle mass”, without cause any difference in individual level of testosterone and estrogen.
Doses: 30-50gr for one dose up to two times per day as nutrition substitute.
5) Conjugated Linoleic Acid (CLA) F
Its advantages are long term. CLA does not increase fat metabolism so much, but it dulls our organism’s ability to store fats as usual. This is great “insurance” weight loss supplement, which will help you always when you are on diet and “turn” of the right way and eat something bad and sweet.
Doses: CLA gives good effect if you want to keep your weight, but only in combination with diet and exercising. Take 1,8-6,2gr of its active isomers (search on the label for “c-9”, “t-10”, “c-12”) per day.
More about BCAAs and how they can help you with your training - “BCAAs - amino acids for long weight loss process“.
6) Saw Palmetto H
Extract of Saw Palmetto can be obtained from small palm tree. Its active components are the plant sterols “beta citosterol” and “stigmasterol”. They cause very good influence to the prostate’s health, because they do not let testosterone to turns into dihydrotestosterone and stop the last to binds with prostate’s receptors. These sterols increase male libido, reduce estrogen and gain in health immune functions.
Doses: 80-320mg standardized extract (80-90% fatty acids and sterols) twice a day.
As a conclusion I want to say that you have not to take all these weight loss supplements. This guide is informative. I suggest you to try some of these – one by one. Doing that you will be able to determine for yourself, which of these supplements work better for you.
If something works for you then you do not have to change it, just keep it. If it does not work, then stop it and try with another one.
I love BCAAs amino acids and I think they are perfect choice if you want to lose weight and keep your muscles. What about your favorite one?
Used tags: advantages, effects, fats, guide, health, organism, supplements, weight loss, Weight loss supplements
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Well done.Thanks for the advice.
Arrielle Green
I am happy you are finding it useful Arrielle:)