What are Fat Burners?
Fat burners ease up your calorie-burning process. Plus, they make it easier to stick with your diet by fighting the bad side effects of a lower-calorie diet.
Fat-shredding supplements, aka fat burners, offer your metabolism a jump that can help you lose weight. Such burners come with thermogenic properties, promoting more calorie burn, thus, more body fat.
Typical fat-burner ingredients are: green tea extract, caffeine, and herbs like garcinia cambogia. The fat burner stimulant ingredients like caffeine are responsible big time for how they function. That said, other ingredients have their roles as well.
Remember that any stimulant-centered fat burners must be cycled on and off, not taken for months at once. This makes sure your body doesn’t adjust to the stimulants’ effects, and you continue to see the outcome you wish without increasing past the suggested dose.
Below are the several kinds of fat burners typically seen and the extra benefits they provide that you must consider strongly when making buying decisions.
Fat Burner ingredients
Fat burner supplements are typically tablets or "burn capsules" taken by mouth. They contain a range of vitamins, minerals, fiber, caffeine, herbs, and other plants.
Caffeine. This is a common ingredient because it stimulates your nervous system and potentially helps burn calories. Supplements may contain more caffeine than your typical coffee, tea, or chocolate.
Green tea extract. This is another common ingredient because green tea helps burn calories and reduce the fat you absorb from food.
Carnitine. This is a compound that boosts your metabolism and gives you energy. It can be found in meat and dairy products, and it’s made naturally by your liver and kidneys. However, its weight-loss benefits are questionable.
Yohimbe. This is another plant compound that comes from the bark of an evergreen tree. It’s common in fat burner supplements but can cause negative effects. Yohimbe can cause:
- Headaches
- Anxiety
- Agitation
- Increased blood pressure
- Heart problems
- Kidney failure
Soluble fiber. This ingredient isn’t found in all fat burners, but you can find some with high amounts of fiber. Fiber helps control your appetite, and soluble fiber can help prevent your body from absorbing fat from food.
Most supplements contain a lot of different ingredients, typically more than what’s beneficial for your health. These unknown ingredients can cause fat burners to react unpredictably with your body.
Are Fat burners safe?
Fat burner supplements aren’t regulated by the FDA. Because of this, you may be taking a health risk by taking them.
First, you don’t always get a complete picture of what is in the supplement. Some studies on these supplements have found ingredients inside that aren’t listed on the bottle.
Second, just because a supplement calls itself “natural” doesn’t mean that it’s safe. Some fat burner supplements have been linked to problems like liver damage. Some herbs, like ephedra, that were once used in fat burners are now banned by the FDA because they cause high blood pressure, mood change, irregular heart rate, stroke, seizures, and heart attacks.
Before taking these supplements, you should talk to your doctor. Their ingredients may interfere with other medications you are taking. Fat burners can be dangerous and cause severe problems if mixed with the wrong drugs.
If you do want to try a fat burner supplement and have talked to your doctor, you can also check out websites run by the U.S. Office of Dietary Supplements to find the best supplements for you.
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