The reputation of diet pills with ephedra is still remarkable. Millions of consumers each year persist in the effort to look for ephedra products that have not been available for years. Products like Stacker 2 with ephedra, Xenadrine RFA-1, or Hydroxycut with ephedra, and of course Metabolife 356 the company that made it has gone bankrupt due to the large amount of lawsuits.
Ephedra worked as a fat burner but the product needed high amounts of the alkaloid ephedrine that had to be combined with caffeine to boost the weight loss effects. Ma Huang as it was known in China had never been used for weight loss until it was discovered to be as effective as many prescription drugs.
Ephedra had not been originally used for weight loss till it was found around twenty years ago to encourage the body to release and burn fat. When the alkaloid ephedrine, found in ephedra, is used in large enough amounts over a long enough period of time the body will tend to consume additional fat for fuel, more than it normally does resulting in weight loss.
It is estimated that within a few years around 3/4 of all Americans will be overweight. Right now there are already approximately 300,000 deaths each year related to obesity complications such as heart disease. All the prescription drugs being sold has not slowed this tremendous problem, just the opposite has occurred and obesity rates are accelerating. This makes the drug companies very happy to have more sick people buying their drugs while they continue their campaign of telling the public that herbs like ephedra are dangerous or do not work.
Would you think ephedra was dangerous if you learned that it might have contributed to 84 deaths. Maybe so, but what if all of those deaths occurred over a ten year period. Doesn't sound so bad now does it. Well that was what was discovered. Why don't you compare that to the following information. Around 7,600 people die each year from products like aspirin, ibuprofen etc. (called Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs, NSAIDs). Of course they don't yank these products made by drug companies off the market.
In response to a stressful situation, your sympathetic nervous system gears up to either go to battle or escape a situation immediately. Heart rate and blood pressure increase to prepare the body for action. Ephedrine mimics the effects of epinephrine and norepinephtine, the two naturally occurring chemicals in the body primarily responsible for the fight or flight syndrome. When you take ephedrine, then, you're basically stimulating your sympathetic nervous system, causing: a faster heartbeat, increased force of heart contraction and increased blood flow, increased blood pressure, increased thermogenesis (the body's heat production, generated by calorie-burning) increased blood flow to the brain slightly increased basal metabolic rate.
When the FDA was going about their business of protecting the public from dangerous drugs, they already new they were going to get rid of ephedra. They did this by manipulating information that made ephedra look like an herb that would kill thousands of people a year. But the truth remains, there was an agenda in place and all they had to do was go through the motions.
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