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Pinolenic Acid
Forget Hoodia, this is the real deal. The remarkable news is that pinolenic acid - a natural plant extract discovered in Europe - has been shown to suppress appetite (via clinical studies) dramatically without causing any stimulatory effect. This plant extract attacks the underlying mechanisms involved in hunger so effectively that study participants reduced their food intake by 36%.
How Pinolenic Acid Works
It does this by affecting a persons sense of satiety. Satiety is the satisfaction and fullness experienced after eating. Hunger and satiety both depend on a complex feedback loop involving many hormones and other substances secreted by the gut that interact with control centers in the brain. The gut participates in the hunger-satiety circuit by secreting two important hormones, cholecystokinin (CCK) and glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1), among others.
A recent clinical study demonstrated that pinolenic acid, a polyunsaturated fatty acid derived from pine nuts, stimulates the secretion of the hunger-suppressing hormones CCK and GLP-1. This exciting finding suggests that pinolenic acid may have powerful effects in reducing appetite and increasing food satisfaction and fullness.
Pinolenic Acid Offers A Healthier Way To Diet
Most methods of weight loss involve short term changes to our diet or use of stimulants. Of course, over time, we become used to stimulants and they become less effective or cause unhealthy side effects. As for short term changes to our diet, what happens when we go back to eating the way we used to? This is different. This is simply our own body looking at what we ate and telling us we have eaten enough... although we have eaten slightly less than we otherwise would have. The health benefits are fantastic, the smaller meal sizes are huge in monetary savings, and as someone who has always been a bit pudgy, I can't wait to see how this works.
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