Glucomannan...any one heard of this?

[belladiamondz]

There was an article recently in Women's Health Magazine about Glucomannan, a supplement which makes you feel fuller longer...i dont rememeber too much about it but would love some more input/review/advice on it?
Tx

[Boss Man]

I can't be sure, but I think it's a glucose supplement. It's some kind of simple / complex Carb combination made of Glucose and something like Maltose, as Maltose is a complex Starchy Carb, Glucose is simple Carb.

If I'm right it's a similar thing to Palatinose, which is another simple / complex combi.

The idea with these are, they give you quicker energy release, but also last for longer, which I think is supposed to allow for time released bursts of energy, rather than a quick shoot of energy, or a long slow release, if you get the picture.

Simple Sugars generally give you a shoot of energy at once, and Complex slow release for about 3 hours. Combination ones work supposedly to recollection, by giving you a small quick shoot of energy, and then another and another, for the time span of a complex carb, so you get energy more quickly into your system, but at regular intervals, in a similar way to eating, where you put a small potrtion of food in your mouth at regular intervals.

When you use a combination product that supposedly does this, if I've remembered correctly, you end up with less simple sugar as it's about 50/50 Simple Complex, so there should be almost little to no sugar to Fat conversion in the Liver, from the simple.

[belladiamondz]

I heard its purpose is to make you feel fuller longer...so usually I take it in the morning, mixing it in with a protein shake.

[swanso5]

you don't want to be full for longer though...you want to be hugry more often...metabolism drops when you don't eat sdo you end up storing fat from the body's starvation survival mechanism

[Boss Man]

This is not meant to sound preachy or rude, but 3.75lbs a month. Considering you weigh around 115lbs, you probably were losing a little too much weight at a time. That kind of weight loss, would be more likely to be mostly Fat, if you'd been 200+ lbs overweight. Most people who weigh around 165, that may be a bit overweight, should aim for 2lbs a week, 8 a month.

You may have lost some muscle, water and maybe even some Bone density, with the Fat.

Good job on the weight loss, but just be aware of what I said, as your weight loss may have come with the aforementioned subtle health risks and you don't want lower water in the body incase you possibly promote higher risk of things like reduced cellular Oxygen, increased Dehydration risk, also Gout and Kidney Stones, because you can't flush KS's and Uric Acid out as easily. Plus reduced Bone density, (Osteopenia), T or Z score of betwen -2.5 and -1, could promote increased Fracture risk.

With this in mind, it would be advisable to maintain good Bone promoting foods, like Beans, Mushrooms, Rice, Pork, Liver, healthy Fat sources like Flax, Oils, Seeds, Soy, (Soybeans, Tofu, Tempeh, Edemame, Nattokinase), Nuts, Peanuts, Avocado, Fish, (remembering they contain heavy metals, so not too much or often), Omega 3 Eggs, (Chickens fed Flax), Low fat Cheese, Vitamin C foods, (C produces Collagen), Tomatos, Potatos, Broccoli, Pink Guava etc etc.

Such foods would help to potentially increase Bone density, as if you had Osteopenia, or were promoting it more though lack of Bone nutrition, anything like Cardiovascular exercise and / or weightlifting, could further promote increase risk of Bone cracks or fractures, when you eventually exerted some kind of stress on a bone or Joint, that had lost the ability to tolerate such things.

Good luck whatever you're deciding to do .