Thread: Pyruvate

Pyruvate? I used this about 2-3 years ago and seemed to have good results with it. Don't know if it was that or just my metabolism at that time. Thinking about using it again. Have they discovered anything bad about it recently. Causes cancer? baldness? limp-itis? increase in taxes?

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Shut up and LIFT!

I stole this off of
http://www.diet-and-health.net/Suppl.../Pyruvate.html


There are few studies on pyruvate and its effects on weight loss. Those that have been done suggest that pyruvate works under laboratory conditions, but its effect is not very impressive. In one study, for example, obese women (defined as weighing over 200 pounds) added 30 grams of pyruvate to a 1000-calorie/day liquid diet for 21 days. This resulted in 37% more weight loss and 48% more fat loss compared to control subjects who were on the 1000-calorie/day diet only (American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 56:630-635, 1992).

These figures seem impressive until one looks at the actual pounds of weight and fat lost. Specifically, the 37% enhancement in weight loss amounts to an average of only 3.5 pounds difference between the group taking the pyruvate and the one not taking it. With respect to the 48% increase in fat loss, this too is misleading because only 3.2 pounds more fat were lost in those consuming pyruvate.

This looks promising to me at least. I hope they do some more research on it.