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Top 10 Weight Loss Supplements

Diet supplements and diet nutrition supplementation for weight loss programs, weight loss exercise workouts, strength training, losing body fat, total body toning, weight loss diet, weight loss toning, nutrition diet plan, body shaping, stretching flexibility, body sculpting, muscle toning, and most exercise fitness, health workout plan.

Diet Nutritional Supplements To Lose Fat While Maintaining Muscle

1. Caffeine (Anhydrous Caffeine, Guarana, Kola Nut, Tea, Coffee)

• Promotes fat utilization for energy – makes the body prefer stored body fat versus glycogen for an energy source – only if takes before exercising
• Improves the exercise and aerobic performance
• Decreases fatigue, increases exercise intensity, prolongs exercise endurance and duration

Note: take only during day; before exercise workout

2. Alpha Lipoic Acid (ALA)

• Antioxidant and anti-inflammatory
• The “universal antioxidant” since both water soluble and fat soluble, allowing it to pass through entire body cell
• Increases body’s ability to take glucose into the cells
• ALA also works synergistically with other antioxidants
• Acts as coenzyme in the production of energy by converting carbs into energy – adenosine tri phosphate (ATP)
• Boosts glutathione

Note: take with a meal and/ or with a lot of water, since acidic and may cause an acid stomach

3. Omega 3 Fish Oil (Omega-3)

• Accelerate body fat loss
• Decrease appetite
• Stop the roller coaster effects of the carbohydrate highs and lows
• Elevate mood
• Increase energy levels
• Increase skin radiance
• Improve attention span
• Stabilize blood sugar levels
• Lower insulin levels
• Create and maintain healthy serotonin levels
• Increase immune system health
• Reduce symptoms and severity of chronic skin conditions such as eczema
• Decrease cardiovascular risk
• Decrease symptoms and severity of rheumatoid arthritis

Note: there is an odorless from available

4. Carnitine (L-Carnitine)

• Converts fat into energy – transports fatty acids from blood into the cell for energy production
• Provides anti-aging in that it enhances energy production for cellular repair
• Prevents muscle loss during an illness and aging (sarcopenia)
• Protective of liver function
• Protects the immune system, especially under stress

Note: take with Omega 3 for better utilization of fat for energy
Take during day or before workout

5. Coenzyme Q10 (Ubiquinone)

• Powerful antioxidant, anti-inflammatory
• Treats and prevents obesity
• Greater ability to lose body fat
• Prevents energy decline seen in aging cells
• Helps regulate blood sugar and enhances insulin sensitivity
• Assists in energy production in the mitochondria
• Enhances metabolism giving more energy and endurance
• Helps to normalize fats in blood stream
• Maximized the burning of foods for fuel
• Protects all vital organs, especially the cardiovascular system, keeping the heart muscle healthy and also prevents arterial inflammation

6. Chromium (Chromium Picolinate)

• An essential nutrient required for normal sugar metabolism (glucose metabolism) and fat metabolism
• Regulates appetite
• Reduces sugar cravings
• Lowers body fat
• Increases lean body mass
• Aid glucose metabolism
• Lowers blood sugar levels and insulin levels (which help with losing body fat)
• Normalizes blood lipids such as triglycerides and cholesterol
• Increases levels of HDL cholesterol – the good cholesterol
• Lowers total cholesterol and triglycerides – protecting the heart
• Important in energy production

7. Acetyl-L-Carnitine

• Can pass through the blood brain barrier and helps prevent neurological decline seen with aging
• Aid in transportation of fats into cells to be burned
• Enhances sensitivity of insulin receptors helping to decrease blood sugar and circulating levels of insulin, which helps our body to use stored body fat for energy production

8. Conjugated Linoleic Acid (CLA)

• A fatty acid found in many foods we eat, beef, lamb, and milk were the highest source, yet since lately, cows are fed mostly grains, their CLA amounts have decreased plus CLA is only found in the fatty part of milk.
• A powerful antioxidant and anti-inflammatory
• Aid in prevention of obesity, decreases body fat, especially in the abdomen
• Aid in utilizing fat for energy
• Helps prevent muscle loss and weakness associated with aging and disease
• Help block adsorption of fat and sugar in fat cells (adipocytes)
• Induces a reduction in the actual size of fat cells
• Insulin sensitizing
• Anti-carcinogen

Note: CLA fat reduction properties have only been shown to work on obese people, not with people who are not overweight, yet still advantageous to fitness people for its muscle preservation qualities.

9. Glutamine (L-Glutamine)

• A conditionally essential amino acid that is used up quickly during stress and workouts, which should be replenished right after a workout
• Helps muscles functioning properly
• Reduce muscle deterioration
• Anticatabolic – helps prevent muscle breakdown, caused by workouts, stress – mental stress or physical stress, disease, overwork, burns, physical trauma, injury, dieting, poor nutrition
• Nourishes stomach cells and intestine cells, which in turn, helps with the rest of the body since healthy food digestion in critical
• Helps stomach problems, including colitis and Crohn’s disease
• Promotes synthesis of glutathione in the liver, which is the body’s primary antioxidant defense system, reduces high glycemic carbohydrate cravings, prevents depression and fatigues, helps synthesize neurotransmitters, which naturally relax a person while elevating their mood

10. Gamma Linolenic Acid (GLA)

• An Omega 6 essential fatty acid, found in borage, black currant, evening primrose oil
• Lowers total cholesterol
• Lowers blood pressure
• Increases body’s metabolic rate, thereby increasing fat usage, decreasing bodyfat

Weight Loss, Bodybuilding, Antioxidant, Dietary, Nutritional Health Supplements

For weight loss supplements to lose weight, see Top 10 Weight Loss Supplements.

For more weight loss supplements to possibly help to lose weight, see Possible Diet Supplements.

For supplements for general health, joint health, and enhancing immunity, see Supplements For Health, Joints, And Immunity.

For muscle supplements and bodybuilding supplements for building muscle, strength, and power, see Bodybuilding Supplements.

For pre-workout supplements to take before an exercise workout for strength training, muscle toning, health fitness Pre-Workout Supplements.

For post-workout supplements to after working out for weight training, body toning, exercise fitness routines Post-Workout Supplements.

If you are a beginner at working out or just starting an exercise program again, check out Beginner Supplements for health, weight training, toning, exercise fitness routines.