LeptinX

LeptinX focuses on you guessed it, leptin! It promises to reduce body fat, body weight, hip, waist, and thigh measurements, and it supposedly regulates the key fat hormones in the body (leptin and adiponectin). LeptinX must have some kind of special formula, or at least so you would think.

Why Does Leptin Matter So Much?

Leptin is actually an obesity related hormones. If you’re overweight, you will have more leptin, which makes it harder to lose weight. Some say that it increases cravings, others say that it increases appetite, and some say that it slows metabolism. But ironically, studies have shown that while most obese individuals do have higher levels of leptin, obese people also seem to have a higher resting metabolism. A little ironic, isn’t it?

But even with a higher metabolism, a greater appetite and cravings for sweets or carbs can obviously get in the way. And if you fight leptin, you fight these problems making it easier to stay on a healthy diet. How does LeptinX relate to all of this?

The University of Minnesota Study

LeptinX and other similar products specifically sites a study conducted at the University of Minnesota. Different companies say different things. But LeptinX seems to think that this particular study showed that the active ingredient in LeptinX actually lowers leptin, promoting positive weight loss results. Too bad that doesn’t even begin to match up with the truth.

The study conducted at the University of Minnesota was actually the first to show that leptin existed in the first place. Specifically using rats, not humans, this particular study showed that obese rats have higher amounts of leptin in their systems than rats who are not overweight. It did not involve any ingredients, let alone did it prove that any ingredients could control leptin. But all we really want to know is whether or not LeptinX works.

Does LeptinX Promote Weight Loss?

LeptinX has 2 ingredients that have recently caught our eye, because of the influx of products using them for “leptin” related purposes. But acacia and esterfied fatty acids have never been proven to promote weight loss, even in small, isolated studies. That leaves LeptinX in a precarious place with nothing to back it up. But that’s what happens when you completely ignore science in favor of ideas that have actually been disproven.