Alpha Lipoic Acid May Prevent Weight Gain After Weight Loss

In an interesting new development, and one that I’m excited about considering I happen to already include that excellent little antioxidant supplement in my daily vitamin and supplement routine, alpha lipoic acid, one that is touted for it’s antioxidant and skin enhancing capabilities in the body, may additionally help prevent those that have lost weight from regaining it back when it is taken after a weight loss has occurred.  What that means is that those who have had a weight loss, say of ten or more pounds, may benefit from taking that vigorous little acid in a supplement, considering it has been shown in lab animals to help prevent the body fat/weight from coming back on after initial loss.

In lab rats who were given the supplement of alpha lipoic acid, those that had lost the weight previously possibly by a period of a few months, from being on a restricted calorie diet, which is of course the best and most known way to lose weight, did not gain back their weight when they were again put on their normal caloric diet after they lost their initial weight from being on a restricted calorie diet for a significant period of moment.

It is unknown from what I read on that interesting news how scientists were lead to belive that alpha lipoic acid may help those who have lost weight from gaining it back after they are off their diet, but the mechanism they are thinking is a trickery that occurs that is triggered by the alpha lipoic acid supplementation after the weight loss, where the body is tricked into thinking it is still on a “diet”. 

No numbers were really given to say how much the rats lost, of course that would have to be measured in percentages since rats are much smaller than humans, so we can scale it in our minds, but you may want to look into that phenomenon further whether you have recently lost weight or are thinking about losing weight via a restricted calorie diet and don’t want to risk putting it all back on once you return to a normal diet (of course, that probably does not mean you can just gorge yourself either and not gain an ounce of it back, but that is within reason). 

Original post by EatingToLive

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