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The Weight Loss Hacks That Claim to Work Like Ozempic

Posted 19 September 2024

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“Dr. Cohen said no supplement currently on the market can lead to significant weight loss. “It just doesn’t exist,” he said. “If it existed, if it was also safe, it would be widely used and purchased.”

Dr. Pieter Cohen, an associate professor at Harvard Medical School who studies supplements.

Kourtney Kardashian’s new “GLP-1 Daily” pill is the latest product to capitalize on the weight loss drug craze.

By Dani Blum Sept. 17, 2024

New York Times

There’s a long list of products that companies and influencers claim can deliver quick and dramatic weight loss, just like Ozempic. There are gummies filled with fruit extract, neon yellow berberine tablets, green teas, even jars of oatmeal and rice steeped in lime water. The latest addition to that list: a weight loss pill released this week by Lemme, Kourtney Kardashian’s supplement company.

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September 19th, 2024 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Green tea, Berberine | Leave a comment

‘The food supplement that ruined my liver’ -Green tea capsules

Posted 28 October 2018

Jim McCants took green tea capsules in a drive to get healthy in middle age. His doctors now say they left him needing an urgent liver transplant, writes the BBC’s Tristan Quinn.

BBC News

It should have been one of the happiest days of his life. But Jim McCants looks back on his youngest son’s high school graduation with mixed emotions. As he sat down next to his wife Cathleen in the university auditorium, just outside Dallas, Texas, she turned to look at him.

“She said ‘Do you feel OK?'” Jim recalls. “I said, ‘Yeah I feel fine, why?’ ‘Your face is yellow, your eyes are yellow, you look terrible.’ When I looked in the mirror it was shocking.”

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October 29th, 2018 | Tags: | Category: Green tea | Leave a comment

Science or Snake Oil: do skinny teas boost weight loss?

Posted 18 December 2017

From The Conversation:

Weight loss teas are becoming common, with advertisements claiming dramatic results often appearing online. Do the big promises match the results, or do they only match the price tag?

A search of the medical research database pubmed found there are no studies specifically on the use of “slimming teas” for weight loss, but there are studies on green and black tea.

One review of five research trials compared changes in body weight in more than 300 adults at high risk of type 2 diabetes and heart disease. They gave people either green tea, a fermented tea called Puehr or tea extracts and compared the weight change to people who were given either placebo (non-active) tea extracts or no tea at all.

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December 18th, 2017 | Tags: , , | Category: Green tea | Leave a comment