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 Why Use Herbal Supplements to Lose Weight
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Looking for supplements to help you take off pounds? Weight loss products can be divided into five categories:

  • Mood enhances: herbs and botanicals to vitalize your emotions and provide the energy allowing you to exercise more (thereby building muscle and burning fat).

  • Natural appetite suppressants: designed to slow your appetite and drop your calorie intake.

  • Lipotropic supplements: meant to help the body remove excess weight and burn it.

  • Diuretics: remove water and thereby reduce your water weight.

  • Metabolic optimizers: substances renowned for raising metabolic rate so that your body burns off calories faster, for sure weight loss.

     Recent research on what makes people exercise sufficiently to lose weight suggests that mood enhancers like St. John's wort, an herb frequently used to soothe mild depression, can boost exercise habits. Although this herb is not a cure-all for those who find it impossible to exercise, many believe that St. John's wort can get you over that emotional state of mind, and get you to physical activity.

    Since the calories you don't eat can't end up as fat, substances that suppress your appetite can, in theory, produce great weight loss results. For instance, hydroxycitric acid (HCA) is reputed to dampen your hunger by increasing the body's production of glycogen, starch that is stored in the muscles. As your reserves of this starch climbs, chemical messages circulate in your body that convince your brain's appetite center that you're full. That keeps you from eating more.

    Natural chemicals like chromium, choline, pyruvate, L-carnitine and lecithin as well as HCA are also supposed to persuade your body to move fat off your body into places where it can be used for energy and other purposes. These so-called lipotropic materials hasten the transfer of fat into mitochondria (cells' energy producers). This way, fat is to be eliminated, allowing the weight to come off.

    How much of your excess weight is water?  While everyone differs in the amount of water they carry, diuretic herbs like gravel root, horse tail, hydrangea, corn silk, thyme, alfalfa, yarrow, uva ursi, juniper berries, parsley, oat straw and hyssop helps your body rid itself of water. In addition, dandelion, while alleged to act as a liver "purifier," also helps move water out of the body. Vitamin B6 is also a reputed diuretic. (Consult your health practitioner before taking B6 in large amounts.)

Metabolic optimizers are considered to be effective at raising your metabolic rate so that you burn calories faster and burn extra fat. In this process, a substance like willow bark, (the material aspirin is made of) can increase fat burning since it contains salicin, a metabolic optimizer. Combined with ephedra, salicin has been shown to significantly raise the amount of calories your body burns. (When taking ephedra, follow directions on the packaging and consult a health professional.)

More weight loss help:

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