Nutritional Supplements And Weight Loss
We live in a century where the most popular diseases are based on a metabolic unbalance, such as dyslipidemia and obesity. The food industry tries to offer its consumers products designed to reduce the cholesterol level, such as alternatives to traditional medicine, that, most times, has important side effects.
A combination recently entered on the nutritional supplements market and it is designed to reduce seric cholesterol level, is a substance called policosanol, obtained from sugar-cane, and omega-3 fat acids. A dose of 10mg/day of policosanol and omega-3 acids produce a significant decrease of overall cholesterol and triglycerides, improving the level of HDL cholesterol, which is good cholesterol.
Another option in case of high cholesterol is the red barley extract. This plant has the capacity to reduce overall cholesterol level, LDL cholesterol and the concentration of triglycerides.The advantages of utilizing this extract is that is produces a physiological normalization of the lipidic profile.In USA there is a dispute regarding the red barley extract - whether or not should be considered medicine or nutritional supplement.
Regarding weight loss and reduction of the adipose tissues, on the nutritional supplements market it has been recently introduces a compound, Gymnema - a plant which is used for thousands of years, but just recently was introduces in the occidental culture. When it’s chewed, Gymnema interferes with the capacity to taste sweet, which explains its name - in Hindi “Gurmar” means “sugar destroyer”. A study monitored the effects of using hydroxicitric acid versus using its combination with crom and Gymnema extract; the subjects were people suffering from obesity that wanted to lose weight.The researchers discovered that this combination is much more potent than administrating only hydroxicitric acid, in helping reduce the adipose tissues and losing weight.
Another nutritional supplement recently introduced on the market, Hoodia, has the capacity of being an appetite suppressant.Members of a population in the Kalahari desert use Hoodia for centuries to reduce the necessary amount of food and water and to increase their energy level.Studies show that the substance contained by Hoodia, responsible with appetite suppuration, is a glycozidic steroid, called P57. Studies have shown that using P57 as a supplement leads to significant appetite reduction.