Raspberry ketones

[Fatpossum]

A number of people at work are on the raspberry ketone diet and say it works really well. I've also read some really good reviews.

Is it safe for someone like me who's on a T3 regime? I'm thinking not as it's supposed to speed up the metabolism.

[shaws Administrator]

I would be extremely cautious particularly as you are on T3 alone and it may cause problems for you.

Weight loss when you get to an optimum level should begin to happen or you will be able to diet and lose slowly rather than gain.

We always want an 'instant' but it doesn't always happen.

[marmaris in reply to shaws]

I agree with Shaws. Unfortunately I tried these about 3 weeks ago and they made me feel ill, then I googled it and it mentioned not to take if you have a thyroid condition.

[Fatpossum in reply to marmaris]

I thought that might be the case - more gym it is then

[Angel_of_the_North]

I don't think there is a single human study to show that this diet works. You can increase the same hormone by drinking coffee or exercising. authoritynutrition.com/do-r...

and

dietitianwithoutborders.com...

[Poshpenny]

I've tried it and personally I don't think it works.

whilst taking the first bottle, I did lose a stone over 3 months without trying to, but I think that had more to do with changing to a gluten free diet and starting on various vit/min supplements as suggested on TUK web pages. One day ilosing weight just stopped happening and I've bought more raspberry ketone stuff since then and not lost a milligram.

[eeng]

The raspberry ketone diet seems to involve taking two types of pills. One contains caffeine, which might rev up your metabolism a bit (but isn't good for you), and the other (often called a detox) basically makes your food pass through your intestines faster so you might absorb less nutrients (and calories) from the food. Any weight loss is nothing to do with either raspberries or ketones. I wouldn't recommend it.