As an avid user of Life Extension products and long time supporter, here are my thoughts on Irvingia.  I personally suffer from SyndromeX.  After 4 weeks I have seen my blood sugar levels drop to maintain 100 to 120, which is better than it was.  I have lost 8 pounds and am able to make my belt tighter a notch now since taking Irvingia.  I will give it another 6 weeks to see how much more I lose.  Integra Lean gives me the renewed focus to start my diet once again (as in so many times) with renewed energy, now that I have an aid to assist with my weight loss program.  I have a doctor appointment in one month for blood work.  I expect that my LDL will be lower, my HDL be higher, and my total cholesterol to be down to an acceptable range.  After all this I will have a better idea of how well Irvingia works, and give a follow-up on this post.  But for now, I AM VERY HAPPY with the product!  I believe in the Life Extension Foundation, their research, and products.  The whole reason I started DR Vitamin Solutions was to help fund their research and to serve others.  On that note, others discussed in this form disappointments with return policies if they do not get results with Integra Lean.  Both Life Extension & DR Vitamin Solutions have a 12 month return policy, so if you find it is not effective, you can return it.  It certainly is worth a try.  It may not be 100% effective for everyone, but for most people it is.  Also, you cannot look at this as a ticket to eat more than usual either.  We all need to give this a full 10 weeks, and eat a health diet.  I hope this helps.

 

Post Edited By Moderator (DDye) : 10/7/2010 4:51:58 PM (GMT-4)

I have all the markers for using Irvingia. I am about 20 - 25 pounds overweight, pre-diabetic, high cholesterol, some abdominal fat. . . . and yet after 3 weeks I have lost no weight. . . not one pound. As instructed, I have not changed my diet or exercise to influence the effect of the supplement. Should I continue taking the product? Do results sometimes occur in the second or third month? I do have a side effect - that could be from the product. Someone could tell me - I have diarrhea. Could that be a side effect of this supplement?

 

Day 7 for me.   How should I say this?  I think I notice that I do not need to use fiber supplement that I normally would use.    I wonder what about the Irvingia has anything to do with this.

I have been doing a lot of research on IG and I believe that this product really works. There are NIH conducted trials on IG and that is huge--I used to work at the NIH and I know these extramural grants merit ample evidence to be funded. I have contacted experts in the field and apparently LEF is marketing a 2nd generation extract of Irvingia, which is different from the ground crude, hence the difference in the dose (3,100 mg Vs. 300 mg LEF). One can attribute the weight loss and cholesterol lowering seen on previous published studies we have read about to the fiber content of the crude extract. But with this small dose of 150 mg 2X daily, I assume LEF has been able to further purified this product or isolate the real active ingredient. Is there any information available on what we're taking? I know there is some disclosure limits giving the formula is pending a patent, but any additional information would be helpful to me. 

I started with a couple of bottles from LEF myself about 8 days ago and I have not had any weight loss as of yet. However, I have noticed some chages with apetite supression and feeling full quickly. Perhaps, this product needs to be in the system for 2-3 weeks at least to begin working. I will continue on treatment and will report results whenerver possible. I don't really have a weight problem--maybe could lose 10-15 lbs--but I have high cholesterol and LDL of familial etiology. My plumbing has definitely slowed down and my appetite has decreased, so I think that's a good start. The study from LEF reported astonishing results in 10 weeks as you have read, so let's hope it lives up to the expectation. Perhaps, like some have suggested, the marked benefits in terms of weight loss will be seen on the real obese, hyperlipidemic individuals.