Friday, January 13, 2017

CLA Safflower Oil - Things you need to know in 2017

CLA has many health benefits and in this article, I will be talking about it, as well as, of course, the thing that it is probably most known for, which is weight loss. CLA is believed by many to help burn fat, reduce body Maxx however, is this true?

Many supplements in the online market have CLA as an ingredient in their formula and as you're all used to, manufacturers always claim that their supplements work but you know what? Not only do most of these supplements have no clinical evidence but if you've used weight loss supplements before, bought online, you know that many of them are useless and many of them do not work as they're advertised to.

One of the main reasons why many supplements do not work is because of low potency formulas that they share because they use low doses.

Some ingredients have very poor bioavailability and are absorbed by the body very slowly so they aren't very effective. Manufacturers will not tell you these things. One of the things that CLA is known for is actually for its antioxidant properties as well as anti-inflammatory properties. It contains vitamins, such as Vitamin E or vitamin K, and can help the immune system but the dose is very important, as for any ingredient really.

Also, CLA comes in various forms, what you want though or what you should be looking for is c9t11 (cis-9, trans-11) and the other t10c12 (trans-10, cis-12). These two are the most potent and healthy and the differences are in the chemicals in them, the chemical chain.  CLA is found in meat as well as dairies however plants are also used, most notably safflower CLA.

Conjugated Linoleic Acid is actually not very potent or reliable. If you plan on using it, you need a high dose to get a benefit from it, which is why you should consult your medic, especially if you are allergic or if you have a sickness, if you are pregnant, etc.

As popular as CLA is, its popularity is mostly based on rumors, it doesn't have much proof that shows that it is reliable. Even at higher doses, CLA isn't very strong so if you are counting on it to burn your fat away, you're wasting your time. However, it could offer some benefits to those working out and dieting. Again, though, it is not reliable and individual results do vary.

There are so many herbal extracts and chemicals that are used by dietary weight loss supplements to help you lose weight. These supplements or should I say the companies behind them, the manufacturers, will always claim that their products work and that the ingredients in them work.

I will tell you right now, don't trust what a company claims, trust the proof that it offers if it has any. With that said, most supplements don't have any clinical proof to offer because they are not clinically tested or proven for purity, safety, efficacy and so on, nor approved or even evaluated by the FDA (Food and Drugs Administration) most of the time.

If you are wondering how come such supplements, without any proof of working or of being safe, are marketed and sold online, well it's simply doable because the FDA doesn't make manufacturers provide clinical evidence for their dietary, oral supplements in order to be able to advertise and sell them over the internet.

It's basically the rules of the FDA, you have to do your own research and you really should because many and I mean most supplements have very low doses, very weak formulas, low potency, ingredients with little to no evidence or very inconclusive and unreliable, etc.

If you don't do your research you may very well end up getting scammed, disappointed, with less money in your pocket and a useless product on your hands. Some rely on the promise of a refund, however, is there a guarantee for that refund? Usually, there isn't so don't be too sure that the manufacturer will give you your money back, all of them.

CLA safflower oil is one of the ingredients, the most popular actually, in many weight loss products. If you ask someone about CLA safflower oil, it is likely that the first thing to come to mind is related to weight loss.

However, the reality is that CLA is very unreliable, the result of studies are inconclusive, the effects of CLA in humans for fat burning are actually not very potent.

Yet, you won't really find a supplement that uses CLA as an ingredient, and that will tell you what I just told you above. Why? Because then they wouldn't make much money. People don't do much research unfortunately and companies know this, and they won't do the research for you or show you any.

Saturday, January 7, 2017

Bio X4 Dietary Supplement Real Review

Bio X4 is a dietary probiotic supplement produced or manufactured by  Nucific. I will be reviewing it in this article and for starters, I definitely want to say that it has a lot of claims, it reaches too far and tries to do too much in my opinion, and it does not appear to fulfill all of its claims. I am not surprised, though, probably 99% of the time most dietary online supplements do not work as advertised or as the manufacturers claim. 

Of course, this is not only due to the supplements being low quality or having buffed up claims, although it's definitely a thing with dietary supplements. There are other factors that determine how much you will benefit from using a probiotic supplement and perhaps any sort of dietary supplement for that matter. 

There are factors in your lifestyle, such as your diet. Probiotics are healthy bacteria that live in your body, most of them in the intestines, and offer their benefits to you, such as immune and digestive support. They are actually spread through your body, you have bacteria in your mouth as well and a lot of them.

Now, these bacteria normally come from diet. Actually there are bacteria all around us but healthy probiotics must be taken from diet and if anyone is interested, there are certain foods actually called probiotic foods, that are rich in these types or species of bacteria and such foods are yogurt for example, or fermented cheese, kefir as well as pickled vegetables and so on, a lot of fermented products essentially have healthy strains of bacteria within them. 

If you don't eat such foods, your gut will lack these bacteria in CFUs and in strains but there's more to it than that. These bacteria can die or get killed.

Antibiotics are most known for killing them. Antibiotics, of course, are made to kill bacteria, the name itself stands for "against life", anti and bios which refer to being against living microorganisms as bacteria but specifically those that are harmful to us and cause infections and so on. 

However, probiotics are also lost in the process of using antibiotics, which is why it's so important to not abuse antibiotics because they come with side-effects and abuse can, in fact, make your immune system weaker and make you more vulnerable to infections, especially in the winter.

Obviously, for a person with a healthy gut microbiome, there's not much point in taking probiotic supplementation and the benefits would be very mild but for someone that has a gut imbalance, supplementation may be recommended so, in the end, you have to consult a medic to know more. As for Bio X4, it does not have FDA approval or clinical supplementation however it has some interesting ingredients. 

It is composed of 5 strains Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium but it only has 4 billion CFUs per capsule, which is not much at all and that is what worries me. The feedback for it is very mixed so again, depending on things like diet, stress, medication and so on, it could be more or less effective or beneficial for you. 

A lot of people use supplements as support for weight loss and by weight loss, of course, I mean fat loss. Losing fat is done by most people through changes in their diet or changes in their level of activity because there are many those that are sedentary and being sedentary is a pretty bad habit, it makes a person used to not being very active and it makes a person lazy so going from being sedentary to being active will obviously be a challenge since you won't like to be active but that is why it is important to take it easy and slowly and build your way up. 

People often make the mistake of going too hard when they start out because they want fast results but that is bad, you will get very tired and especially if you don't eat properly you won't have enough to fuel your body and especially not enough for your body to recover so you will feel very tired and sore the next day and another problem is that most people don't know how to eat properly before or after an exercise or workout routine or even before and after a run in the park. 

Not eating properly means bad performance and bad recovery and it makes everything awful, there are a lot of mistakes that people do and they think it's very hard but it's because they are not doing it properly so just take it slowly, don't rush things.