The African Irvingia Plant

This plant from West Africa, well known for its extract, has shown that when taken as a capsule, can assist in maintaining healthy body weight in most people. And for those who want to lose the excess weight, taking a supplement capsule on a daily basis made from the African Invingia Plant, would be a great way to do it.

It was also noted during a study using this African plant that, in general, people, who age, regardless of how much they eat, will gain weight. That is why as you get older your body slows down and it is much more difficult to shed those unwanted pounds.

Scientists who made this discovery also realized that in order to maintain ideal body weight, there is a need to lower the level of the “C-reactive protein” which is found in the fat cells.

The C-reactive protein is also responsible for leading to Leptin resistance. Leptin, on the other hand, is a hormone that will tell the brain it has consumed enough food. Leptin promotes the breakdown of fat and is important in weight management and control, since it tells the brain to turn off the hunger messages it receives which causes us to crave food.

Irvingia is also a fat converting enzyme that will reduce the glucose or sugar that is usually converted into fat within the human metabolism.

Furthermore, in order to maintain a healthy weight level, carbohydrate absorption in the digestive tract must be reduced. Carbohydrates are broken down by an enzyme called “amylase.”

Irvingia is a natural inhibitor of amylase, and so when a person takes the Irvingia supplement, the amount of starch and therefore sugar that is ingested and absorbed by the body, is greatly reduced.

There are studies that demonstrate and show the effective weight loss properties of The African Irvingia Plant, and in fact people in the study, within a 10 week period, lost 28 pounds, verses the placebo group, who only lost 3 pounds within that same time period. Moreover, none of the participants altered their own diet habits during the test period.

It was therefore recognized, that based on this impressive study and the human data collected from it, that if a dose of 150 mg of Irvingia was taked twice a day on a daily basis, the results would be amazing, as far as appetite control and weight loss were concerned.