Wild Raspberry ketone

[R4RAA]

Hi everyone I just wanted to know if any one has taken wild Raspberry ketone while on thyroid Meds? It's a tablet that makes you lose weight in 6weeks If taken every morning.

[Clutter]

R4RR,

That's what the manufacturer claims! I haven't seen members posting that it works. Type Raspberry Keytones into the Search function top right to see previous posts.

[StitchFairy in reply to Clutter]

I heard they don't work and WebMD says...

Raspberry ketones supplements can no longer be sold legally in the UK. In 2014, the Food Standards Agency ruled that raspberry ketones were an unauthorised 'novel food'. webmd.boots.com/diet/raspbe...

[humanbean in reply to StitchFairy]

I didn't know the sale of it had been banned in the UK. Interesting!

[StitchFairy in reply to humanbean]

I remembered seeing them piled high in the window display of H&B a few years back, and then noticed they no longer sell them. Now we know why!

[helvella Administrator Thyroid UK]

R4RAA,

What they are selling is a dream.

They take the ever-so-cheap ingredient caffeine, add the widely talked-about substance resveratrol, and then think how they can flog it. Oh yes, there was a tiny bit of research that mentioned raspberry ketones in rats or mice - everyone loves raspberries, raspberries are safe, bung a tiny bit in, so that's the marketing sorted.

Unfortunately there are potential effects other than failing to lose weight on them.

The minimum effect:

Loss of money and feeling silly.

The maximum effect:

Death

Your choice of the following links:

news.com.au/lifestyle/healt...

edinburghnews.scotsman.com/...

theguardian.com/lifeandstyl...

theguardian.com/society/201...

[shaws Administrator]

Unexplained Weight gain is a clinical symptom of hypothyroidism. Pity doctors don't know this and blame patients' eating habits. It's about time they all got a complete course on hypothyroidism so that they are fully aware of the consequences of insufficient hormones and ALL of the clinical symptoms and, most importantly, how to diagnose.

We need doctors like Dr Skinners. Dr Peatfields, and others who can stand up to the brutal guidelines which are inflexible for many unwell patients.

[Flowers14]

They'res no tablet on earth that'll make you lose weight none, no such thing.

Make sure your Levothyroxine tablet is taken away from this other tablet. Good luck

[miglet54 in reply to Flowers14]

It's not that easy. I take my hormone well away from everything else. I'm not certain that there isn't a medication to make weight loss happen. It depends what's making one fat in the first place. Perhaps they can right a wrong, if they can get it right diagnostically.

[catrich in reply to miglet54]

There are certainly things which speed up metabolism but the fat that has piled on almost certainly has to come off the 'natural' way: the body must use it as fuel. That is diet: eating the right things for you, limiting carbohydrates and not under-or over eating. Sort out intolerances and allergies. 3 meals a day for most people. And I say diet not 'a diet'. Healthy food that involves some preparation by you. Exercise is next. In whatever amount you can manage, working up to a regular, daily amount. There can be no magic pill to melt fat that doesn't have side-effects ( otherwise we'd all be taking it lol).

( All this assuming health conditions being managed effectively)

[helvella Administrator Thyroid UK in reply to catrich]

Some of the substances which have been pushed as weight loss tablets have a long history of horror. For example, the abstract below states 62 deaths - and there have been many more since 2011. The full paper is available on PubMed Central - follow link at end.

J Med Toxicol. 2011 Sep;7(3):205-12. doi: 10.1007/s13181-011-0162-6.

2,4-dinitrophenol (DNP): a weight loss agent with significant acute toxicity and risk of death.

Grundlingh J1, Dargan PI, El-Zanfaly M, Wood DM.

Author information

1Emergency Medicine, Whittington Hospital, London, UK.

Abstract

2,4-Dinitrophenol (DNP) is reported to cause rapid loss of weight, but unfortunately is associated with an unacceptably high rate of significant adverse effects. DNP is sold mostly over the internet under a number of different names as a weight loss/slimming aid. It causes uncoupling of oxidative phosphorylation; the classic symptom complex associated with toxicity of phenol-based products such as DNP is a combination of hyperthermia, tachycardia, diaphoresis and tachypnoea, eventually leading to death. Fatalities related to exposure to DNP have been reported since the turn of the twentieth century. To date, there have been 62 published deaths in the medical literature attributed to DNP. In this review, we will describe the pattern and pathophysiology of DNP toxicity and summarise the previous fatalities associated with exposure to DNP.

PMID: 21739343

PMCID: PMC3550200

DOI: 10.1007/s13181-011-0162-6

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/217...

[Angel_of_the_North]

It makes some rats lose (or not gain) weight but has not been tested with humans (and defintely not on hypo humans) Don't waste your money. Hoever, I have known people who improved their sick cats' health with raspberry tablets (no weight loss) but that is more likely due to ellagic acid than adiponectin. Why not just eat raspberries (you'd need about 40kg per dose, though)? Much nicer - yum! Esp as the pills aren't even made from rapsberries but from chemicals in a lab. Exercise and coffee can raise adiponectin and are a lot cheaper.

See huffingtonpost.com/becky-ha...

and

authoritynutrition.com/do-r...