Is Zotrim safe?
We would always recommend discussing supplements such as this with your doctor before taking anything. Not only can they safely advise you, but if you take a blood test you may find deficiencies in your nutritional intake that can help advise you what supplement might work best. However we can say with confidence that unless you're quite sensitive to caffeine, Zotrims makeup of entirely naturally sourced ingredients should be safe for the majority of us.
How do I take Zotrim?
On their website they say that the best way to take Zotrim is to take 2-3 tablets with water or a cold drink just a few minutes before meals. Maximum would be 9 pills a day, but they've dosed it as a 30 day supply with 6 per day being the considered optimal intake. They also advice you should aim to reduce portion sizes per meal, as you would if you were trying to lose weight effectively.
Luckily we can see the doses of each ingredient here so can advise accurately whether or not each will be effective. Zotrims makeup of all natural ingredients has some effectiveness/ clinically proven inclusions and some less effective/ not exactly proven inclusions. It's time to break this apart and see through the looking glass of this appetite suppressant.
Guarana seed extract 95mg
Guarana seed extract is one of those ingredients most commonly seen on cans of energy drinks and the like. This is because Guarana actually contains more caffeine than the god of caffeine itself, coffee. This comes with all the benefits of caffeine for weight loss, including a reduction in cravings and appetite, increased focus and energy and even helping to stimulate our metabolism. And this is fine, but most good weight loss supplements that include caffeine simply include caffeine itself in a higher dosage, thus being more effective. Guarana is typically a hallmark of lesser quality fat burners we generally prefer to see caffeine anhydrous taking this ingredient spot.
Damiana leaf extract 36mg
Damiana leaf extract is a plant native to Central America, its main uses as a herbal supplement are to reduce anxiety. Its usefulness here isn't necessarily to help with weight loss directly, but rather to counteract the potential anxious reaction some might have with the caffeine contents of this pill. A clever inclusion considering peoples sensitivity to caffeine and the anxious response many might have. In terms of dosage there's not much information out there, and it's clinical effectiveness at this isn't very clear so we're not convinced it'll help out very much, though there's some anecdotal evidence that might say otherwise. But generally speaking this is where the zotrim review starts going wrong.
Yerba mate leaf extract 112mg
This is an interesting one as it contains caffeine, which gives it a thumbs up, but studies have shown the effective dosage would be more like 1000mg, so as it stands it's inclusion here is to have something else we can all point to and say "Yup, the tests have concluded this is an effective appetite suppressant so it's clinically proven" but once you take a look yourself you find that in these quantities it's ineffective and, beyond that, we already have plenty of caffeine included so it doesn't bring much new to the table. You can argue anti-oxidant effects etc. but again, at this dosage, it's effect would be minimal and, again, these effects are found in Guarana and Coffee themselves.
Caffeine 13.8mg
It's quite likely that half of the Center TRT office would've been naturally selected to have died off long ago if it wasn't for this wonderful stimulant at least if the wear on our coffee pot is anything to go by. Caffeine is most commonly ingested by being the best part of the morning: a warm cup of Joe! Its stimulant effects are well documented, proven to improve focus and reduce fatigue, and it's even been documented to help engage our metabolism through a process known as thermogenesis. The studies that found this have a recommended dose of 3-6 mg per kg of body weight. This would put the useful range between 200 to 500mg, leaving a lot to be desired from Zotrims dosage. Now it is fair to say that with the inclusion of Guarana, as well as other stimulant ingredients it would be quite intense if everything was effectively dosed, which just begs the question; why include them all to begin with? Well the answer is to pad out ingredients lists with proven and effective ingredients so you can boast about the trials that prove your product works, whilst obscuring the truth behind having to conduct your own research.
Vitamins B3 and B6 (2.9mg and 0.4mg respectively)
These are typical inclusions in the weight loss supplement market, as to engage the weight loss process we need to restrict our calorie intake to a deficit, meaning your body will use more energy than it receives, choosing instead to use the fuels of fat cells stored for the lack of energy intake. Now these vitamins don't help us burn fat directly, but what they do is help our cells to absorb the energy we do have more efficiently. This helps to counteract tiredness and fatigue that can often occur when operating on a calorie intake deficit, therefore the benefits of its inclusion is obvious. However once again our dosage isn't quite there, with the recommended dosage of B3 being 14 to 16mg and the same for B6 being 1.5 to 1.7mg.