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GuidesMetabolism Supplement Guides
Two pieces of reading that sell nothing. The first walks the ingredients this whole category is built from and reports what each one was measured doing, in whom, and at what amount. The second is a scorecard of seven checks you can run on any label in about five minutes, applied at the end to the product this website sells.
Two long reads about a shelf, not two more pages about one bottle.
The two guides
One about the research, one about the label in front of you.
What the evidence supports across metabolism supplements
Caffeine has the cleanest evidence in the category and the smallest honest number attached to it. Green tea catechins have the largest review and the flattest result. Green coffee has a retraction at the centre of its story. Garcinia has a 135-person trial that found nothing and a row of liver case reports. Raspberry ketone has a mouse.
Seven checks to run on any metabolism label
Is every amount printed? Is the total caffeine knowable from the panel? Does the standardisation percentage appear, and has anyone done the multiplication? Is the species and plant part named? Seven questions answerable from a label and a website, then the same seven applied here without flattering anybody.
Why a shop publishes guides that cost it sales
What a retailer gets from explaining the shelf it is standing on.
Somebody weighing $89 on a bottle of capsules is better served by understanding the category than by a fourteenth page about one product inside it. That is the argument, and it is not a selfless one: a desk that explains the evidence has to live with the evidence afterwards, on every other page it publishes.
Living with it here means printing that four of the five amounts on this panel are a fraction of what their own studies used, and that the fifth — 138 mg of caffeine anhydrous — is the only row on the bottle present at a researched amount. Both statements are in the guides. Both are also on the ingredients page, which is where the bottle is actually sold.
The scorecard is the sharper of the two. It ends by scoring this product against its own seven checks, including the check it fails.
How these guides are sourced
Where each statement in the two guides comes from.
Every ingredient statement in both guides is tied to a paper anyone can open. The list at the foot of each page carries the full citation and a link to the PubMed record, and where a trial is named the amount it used is given beside it, because that amount is the only thing that makes a label row comparable to anything.
Two kinds of source are deliberately absent. There are no supplement-industry position papers, and there are no studies of the finished capsule, because none exists — no trial has been run on this product, and no page on this website suggests otherwise.
The 2012 trial that launched green coffee bean extract onto daytime television is filed by PubMed as a Retracted Publication. It is cited in the guide by its retracted record rather than quietly dropped, because a reader who half-remembers the headline deserves to be told what happened to it.
Who publishes this SlimSet website?
- Vinson JA, Burnham BR, Nagendran MV. Randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, linear dose, crossover study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of a green coffee bean extract in overweight subjects. Diabetes Metab Syndr Obes. 2012;5:21-7. Retracted Publication. PMID 22291473. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22291473/
- Heymsfield SB, Allison DB, Vasselli JR, et al. Garcinia cambogia (hydroxycitric acid) as a potential antiobesity agent: a randomized controlled trial. JAMA. 1998;280(18):1596-600. PMID 9820262. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9820262/
- Jurgens TM, Whelan AM, Killian L, Doucette S, Kirk S, Foy E. Green tea for weight loss and weight maintenance in overweight or obese adults. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2012;12(12):CD008650. PMID 23235664. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23235664/
- Astrup A, Toubro S, Cannon S, Hein P, Breum L, Madsen J. Caffeine: a double-blind, placebo-controlled study of its thermogenic, metabolic, and cardiovascular effects in healthy volunteers. Am J Clin Nutr. 1990;51(5):759-67. PMID 2333832. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2333832/
- Morimoto C, Satoh Y, Hara M, Inoue S, Tsujita T, Okuda H. Anti-obese action of raspberry ketone. Life Sci. 2005;77(2):194-204. PMID 15862604. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15862604/
Read the guides, then look at SlimSet again
The product pages carry the same five amounts and the same trials. Packs run $49 to $89 a bottle with 60 days from the date of purchase to change your mind.
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