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Are you slowly but surely getting fatter? Caralluma fimbriata stabilizes your body weight
If for some reason you find yourself having a hard time controlling your appetite and consistently consuming just a little more energy than your body can process without getting fat, consider supplementing with Caralluma fimbriata. A gram of extract per day may solve your problem.
Study
In 2021, Australian researchers commissioned by Gencor, a manufacturer of Caralluma fimbriata supplements, recruited approximately eighty healthy but obese test subjects.
Half of these subjects took a placebo every day for 16 weeks. The subjects in the other group took 2 capsules daily, each containing 500 milligrams of Caralluma fimbriata extract. The subjects took one capsule for breakfast and one capsule for dinner.
During the trial, the subjects did not change their lifestyle.
Caralluma fimbriata
Caralluma fimbriata contains steroid-like substances. One of these is russelioside-B, the structural formula of which is shown below. Ethnopharmacologists suspect that these substances in the brain inhibit the release of hunger hormones.
Results
In the placebo group, the waist size remained approximately the same, while that of the supplementation group decreased by almost 3 centimeters. In the placebo group, body weight increased by 1.3 kilos, in the supplementation group body weight decreased slightly.
The researchers explain these two modest effects by the decrease in appetite caused by Caralluma fimbriata. In the supplementation group, daily calorie intake decreased by approximately two hundred kilocalories. An earlier study, also sponsored by Gencor, also showed that supplementation with Caralluma fimbriata reduces energy intake by 200 kilocalories.
Mechanism
The researchers monitored the concentrations of cortisol, NPY and leptin in the blood of the test subjects. The first two stimulate hunger, the last inhibits it.
However, the Astralians could not determine from their measurements how exactly the extract reduced energy intake. The researchers argue for further research that should provide more clarity about this.
Source:
Sci Rep. 2021 Mar 24;11(1):6791.
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Russelioside-B, a natural fat loss steroid 14.11.2018
Caralluma fimbriata reduces daily calorie intake by 200 kcal 22.02.2011
Caralluma fimbriata has hoodia-like appetite-suppressant effect: animal study 19.02.2011
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