Supplements: Weight Loss Products & Specialist Nutrition

Weight loss products, or fat burners as they‘re commonly known, are becoming increasingly popular with users from a wide range of activities. Their primary aim is to increase the number of calories you burn or are able to burn on a day-to-day basis with the aim of many of these coming from stored body fat. The best effects from these will always be seen when the user is engaged in regular physical activity as this gives the newly liberated fat calories somewhere to be used up (they don‘t just evaporate into thin air!).
Not all fat burners are created equal! Fat burners differ greatly in price due to their ingredients list. The simplest fat burners will contain things like L-Carnitine, L-Arginine, and L-Organine. These are amino acids normally found in protein which have been found to assist in the breakdown and utilisation of dietary fat (the fat you eat). Next up are the stimulant based fat burners. These aim to increase the speed at which your body works, thus increasing the daily calorie expenditure. The most effective (and, not unusually, the most expensive) are the thermogenic supplements. These actually tell your body to generate more heat and therefore use more calories even when you‘re resting. These are usually combined with all the other elements mentioned to give a three-pronged attack to the calorie burning process.