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Weight Loss Patches

Ah, how we love a fad.  Many an hour we spend watching those infomercials and visualizing how our lives could be better if we just had this or that product.

I’m sure you’ve seen the infomercials for weight loss patches.  Or the spam when you open your email.  You are momentarily dazzled by the avatar of the full-figured lady who miraculously disappears before your eyes into a svelte love Goddess.  Yes, a weight loss patch may solve your problems.  But so might a million dollars, or plastic surgery…or getting a life.

But why not , I hear you cry?  After all, it’s hard work remembering to eat right, let alone pop weight loss pill thirty minutes before eating.  Who can remember that?  So the idea of slapping on a patch is quite liberating.  Won’t it suppress our appetites and turn our body’s into fat burning super machines?

Probably not folks.  I hate to burst your consumer bubble, but the ingredients in these little stick-ons just aren’t as ‘super’ as you’d hope.   They’re more a ‘band aid’ for your problem, not a solution.   And like band aids, you might feel better for a while, but once off, you’re still the same injured soul.

Most weight loss patches contain the same five ingredients.  They may vary a little, and some may highlight Hoodia as your weight loss hero while others herald Bladderwrack as the ingredient that’s going to save your fat life.

• Guarana: A stimulant likened to caffeine, it has mild fat burning (thermongenic) properties, is thought by some to be an antioxidant, and is a mild diuretic (makes you pee.)
• Garcinia Cambogia (HCA-Hydroxycitric Acid)-Animal studies indicate this ingredient can block the conversion of starches and sugars into fat, and promotes thermogenesis (the body’s ability to burn fat.) NOTE: Beware purchasing any products containing this ingredient right now.  The FDA has issued a warning against the popular Hydroxycut™, stating its ingredient Hyrdoxycitric Acid, or HCA, is a possible culprit for liver-related illness.
• Fucus vesiculosus (aka bladderwrack or brown seaweed): Bladderwrack contains high concentrations of Iodine, which in turn produce thyroid hormones necessary for healthy thyroid performance.   A low or sluggish thyroid can lead to low energy levels or weight problems.  But you could be overweight for a number of reasons, one of them being consumption of processed junk food and a sedentary lifestyle, so this ingredient will not help if you do not have thyroid dysfunction.  The makers of weight loss patches herald Bladderwrack as their star ingredient…but it may not be beneficial to you.
• Hoodia-Most weight loss patches are Hoodia based.  They market Hoodia like they marketed Ephedra in the day; use it and the fat and inches will melt away.   A few things you should know about this plant, is first it’s now an endangered species and retailers are having a hard time finding it.  Apparently there are more Hoodia products emerging than there are plants to supply it.  Which leads to the question…what’s really in your weight loss product?  Either tiny dosages, or possibly a ‘cheat’ form of Hoodia?   Secondly, there is very little conclusive evidence that Hoodia works as an appetite suppressant or anything else for that matter.

Folks, these ingredients just aren’t that great.   Google them for clinical studies.  Some may have been tried and tested on either an animal or human panel, but results will probably be pretty inconclusive.  And we’re sure you’re not getting anywhere near the correct doses to be of any effect, anyway.

Who knows, the weight loss patch of the future might be as effective as the birth control patch.  Meanwhile, slap yourself out of the marketing daze you’re in, and go for a walk- and not to the gas station for a King Size Snickers bar and 32 oz Coke either.