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Green Coffee Bean Extract I started this pill last week, its 1800 mg 2 a day a half hour before a meal. It was on Dr. Oz show. I lost 6 pounds already. I am not active neither. Not sure if others tried and had same results or different results, But I would love to hear about it.
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Have any of you tried this?????
looks/sounds great! wonder how it works?
bizi
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Bizi,
I tried it for a week.
http://imr.sagepub.com/content/35/6/900.short
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmc3267522/
Randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, linear dose, crossover study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of a green coffee bean extract in overweight subjects
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This relative deprivation of glucose could possibly explain the reduction in BMI as well as fat content seen in their other rat study and in our human study. Another group has clearly demonstrated that chlorogenic acid may in fact have an antagonistic effect on human glucose transport.15
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My understanding is that it blocks some of the absorption of carbs.
It probably has other mechanisms as well.
The Indian study that Dr. Oz mentioned on his show was tiny and poorly conducted:
http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/...pseudoscience/
Dr. Oz and Green Coffee Beans – More Weight Loss Pseudoscience
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