OxyThin Ingredients

HCA 200 mg When calorie intake exceeds the body’s energy needs, the excess glucose is converted into glycogen, which is stored in the liver and muscles for future conversion into energy. Weight gain occurs after the body’s capacity for glycogen storage is reached. At this point, glucose from excessive calorie intake is converted into acetyl coenzyme A via a metabolic pathway involving the enzyme ATP-citrate lyase and then into fat molecules, which are stored in fat cells. HCA exerts its weight management effects by binding to ATP-citrate lyase. This reaction limits the conversion of carbohydrates into fat through an enzymatic process. Studies show that HCA suppresses appetite while giving the sensation of fullness, which may contribute to weight management.

Alpha Lipoic Acid: Alpha lipoic acid is an antioxidant used in Europe to promote liver and nerve health, and confer protective benefits against oxidative processes. Alpha lipoic acid has been called the “universal” antioxidant because it boosts glutathione levels in cells and has potent antioxidant actions.
Research in the last decade has strongly implicated cellular oxidative damage caused by free radicals as a cause of many degenerative disorders. What makes alpha lipoic acid so effective as an antioxidant is that it works on both water and fat-soluble free radicals, which are the cause of damaging oxidative processes. Alpha lipoic acid also plays a critical role in energy production within the cell’s mitochondria, as proven in rat studies.

Besides boosting glutathione levels in cells, alpha lipoic acid has potent antioxidant action in almost all the tissues of the body, and is a co-factor for some of the key enzymes (alpha keto acid dehydrogenases) involved in generating energy from food and oxygen in mitochondria.

One of the most unique and important qualities of alpha lipoic acid is its ability to quench free radicals in both aqueous and lipid environments. This means that the antioxidant activity of alpha lipoic acid is working in the extracellular fluid and also within the cell. It also has metal chelating ability, helping the body rid itself of accumulated ingested toxins.

Acai Berry: Free radicals react with organic substrates in our body such as proteins, lipids and, yes, even our very DNA.  Oxidation, much like the rusting of iron, causes damage resulting in disruption of function that can accelerate aging and lead to disease. The Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity assay, or simply ORAC score, is a reliable validated method to compare the antioxidant capacity of a food's ability to neutralize the peroxyl radical (the most dominant free radical that is produced in our bodies.) The ORAC assay has been called one of the most significant developments in analytical science in the last 100 years.  It has been suggested that units of ORAC should simply be called "anti-aging points."

Antioxidants help with this in two ways.  Firstly, they donate electrons to the free radicals in order to neutralize them and make them harmless.  This prevents the free radicals from damaging the body tissues. Secondly, the free radicals are then flushed from the body or restored back to their normal position.
As a person loses weight, the body burns fats.  To remain healthy while the body is burning fat faster, the dieter should add antioxidants to the diet.  Fat burning creates metabolic waste products, such as ketones and lipid peroxides.  Peroxides are dangerous free radicals, which get stored in the body’s fat stores.  As a dieter loses weight by burning fat, these toxins are released.  For a typical serving of 100 grams, cranberries and blueberries would total approximately 9,000 ORAC units, while açaí would total 102,700.

With antioxidant protection being so critical to disease prevention, anti-aging and general wellness,  açaí brings an unmatched antioxidant army to combat the prevalent peroxyl radical in human body

Green Tea: In a study reported on in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, it was found that green tea extract resulted in a significant increase in energy expenditure (a measure of metabolism), plus also had a significant effect on fat oxidation. While some of the effects were originally theorized to be due to the caffeine content of green tea, the researchers discovered that the tea actually has properties that go beyond those that would be explained by the caffeine. The same amount of caffeine as was in the green tea, administered alone, failed to change energy expenditure in other studies. This led reseachers to believe that there is some interaction going on with the active ingredients of green tea that promotes increased metabolism and fat oxidation.

The researchers indicated that their findings have substantial implications for weight control. A 4% overall increase in 24-hour energy expenditure was attributed to the green tea extract, however, the research found that the extra expenditure took place during the daytime. This led them to conclude that, since thermogenesis (the body's own rate of burning calories) contributes 8-10% of daily energy expenditure in a typical cubject, that this 4% overall increase in energy expenditure due to the green tea actually translated to a 35-43% increase in daytime thermogenesis.

Chromium: Chromium is necessary for normal carbohydrate metabolism. Chromium picolinate supplementation increases insulin sensitivity in subjects with type 2 diabetes. Further, CrPic supplementation significantly attenuated body weight gain and visceral fat accumulation compared with the placebo group. Diabetes Care. 2006 Aug;29(8):1826-32

Milk Thistle: Research suggests that milk thistle extracts both prevent and repair damage to the liver from toxic chemicals and medications. Workers who had been exposed to vapors from toxic chemicals (toluene and/or xylene) for 5-20 years were given either a standardized milk thistle extract (80% silymarin) or placebo for 30 days.[22] The workers taking the milk thistle extract showed significant improvement in liver function tests (ALT and AST) and platelet counts vs. the placebo group.

The efficacy of silymarin in preventing drug-induced liver damage in patients taking psychotropic drugs long-term has been investigated .[23] This class of drugs is known to cause liver damage from oxidation of lipids. Patients taking silymarin in the study had less hepatic damage from the oxidation of lipids than patients taking the placebo.

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