Fucothin

These days, people will go to all sorts of crazy lengths to lose weight. People go to cosmetic surgeons, paying thousands of dollars and essentially risking their lives to get liposuction.

Beyonce Knowles even went on a crash diet to lose weight prior to the filming of the movie Dreamgirls. She lost twenty pounds in ten days by drinking only detox drinks for those ten days–detox drinks consisting of lemon juice, water, and cayenne pepper.

Effective as that crash diet may have been for Beyonce, it must have a.) tasted disgusting, and b.) felt absolutely miserable. She must have been completely exhausted for those ten days, consuming a mere 60 calories as opposed to the average recommended 2,000 calories a day. Even Beyonce actually advises against using that diet, even though it did work for her.

In any case, people are obsessed with losing weight–whether you, like Beyonce, need to lose weight for a role in a multi-million dollar movie, or you just want to look good in your new swimsuit.

Fucothin may be a product that could help you take off some pounds–but does it actually work?

What is Fucothin?

Based solely on the ingredient fucoxanthin, Fucothin was created by Jordan Rubin. Rubin claims that he was skeptical about fucoxanthin at first and was hesitant to release a “fat burning” product, because none were up to his standards.

He claims that collaborating with Dr Zakir Ramazanov, he discovered fucoxanthin. Actually Japanese scientists “discovered” fucoxanthin. But the question is, does FucoThin work as a product?

How does Fucothin work?

If you’re familiar with Garden of Life, you know that Rubin has been sued by the FTC on more than one occasion, and they have not minced words when recommending that users not buy anything associated with this particular individual.

For those who have heard of this, it would come as no surprise that all the studies on fucoxanthin have been conducted by the same group of scientists at the same university in Japan. And all of them have been conducted on rats. There may have been human trials, but for whatever reason, they have not been published.

Overall Conclusion

The only information outside the Fucoxanthin website concerning Dr Zakir Ramazanov places him as a Russian scientist who popularized rhodiola rosea and sells his own line of health products. However, he passed away in 2006.

The research connecting Fucoxanthin and weight loss was conducted in 2007. If you don’t trust the FTC, trust this. The circumstances surrounding Fucothin are extremely suspicious, and the current research on fucoxanthin still has potential bias and a lot of questions.

If you choose to buy Fucoxanthin, the biggest problem is not that you don’t actually know what you’re getting.