Green Coffee Bean Extract

Raybug0903
Raybug0903 Posts: 86 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Anyone ever try green coffee bean extract? I've heard about it on Dr. Oz's show and read a lot about it online. Thoughts? Comments?

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  • SideSteel
    SideSteel Posts: 11,068 Member
    Anyone ever try green coffee bean extract? I've heard about it on Dr. Oz's show and read a lot about it online. Thoughts? Comments?

    Here are my opinions:

    1) There's not a whole lot of well-done research showing any significant effect from GCBE.
    2) As with the vast majority of dietary supplements, if it DOES do anything it probably won't be significant.
    3) I would really (you're not going to like this but I'm dead serious here) stop trusting Dr. Oz for nutritional/dietary information as he has a very proven track record of recommending TOTAL BULLSHART as far as supplements goes.


    You know what I'd do? I'd eat slightly fewer calories than you need and I would exercise. That's a good plan to win.
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,454 Member
    ^^ What he said.
  • ironmonkeystyle
    ironmonkeystyle Posts: 834 Member
    As a testament to how awesome green coffee bean extract is, this guy used it for months, and this is the result:
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  • Cr01502
    Cr01502 Posts: 3,614 Member
    Anyone ever try green coffee bean extract? I've heard about it on Dr. Oz's show and read a lot about it online. Thoughts? Comments?

    Here are my opinions:

    1) There's not a whole lot of well-done research showing any significant effect from GCBE.
    2) As with the vast majority of dietary supplements, if it DOES do anything it probably won't be significant.
    3) I would really (you're not going to like this but I'm dead serious here) stop trusting Dr. Oz for nutritional/dietary information as he has a very proven track record of recommending TOTAL BULLSHART as far as supplements goes.


    You know what I'd do? I'd eat slightly fewer calories than you need and I would exercise. That's a good plan to win.

    Seconded.

    Educate yourself.

    Weight loss supplements are a big money maker and since they don't have the science to back them up they get celebrities to do so instead.
  • SideSteel
    SideSteel Posts: 11,068 Member
    As a testament to how awesome green coffee bean extract is, this guy used it for months, and this is the result:
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    Given this new evidence on Green Coffee Bean Extract™ I'd like to change my answer to "OMG lets all buy them".
  • ironmonkeystyle
    ironmonkeystyle Posts: 834 Member
    The media likes to sell things, and guys like Dr. Oz get paid to endorse stuff. So, they are incentivized to over-state research findings too. This happens all the time with all kinds of products. Research finds more limited effects, and these effects become over-blown by the media or celebrities with paid endorsements. For instance, cheese and chocolate do NOT make you make better decisions, but that's exactly what the media declared following some findings by a friend of mine. She did a TED talk about this. Check it out here:

    http://www.ted.com/talks/molly_crockett_beware_neuro_bunk.html
  • ironanimal
    ironanimal Posts: 5,922 Member
    The media likes to sell things, and guys like Dr. Oz get paid to endorse stuff. So, they are incentivized to over-state research findings too. This happens all the time with all kinds of products. Research finds more limited effects, and these effects become over-blown by the media or celebrities with paid endorsements. For instance, cheese and chocolate do NOT make you make better decisions, but that's exactly what the media declared following some findings by a friend of mine. She did a TED talk about this. Check it out here:

    http://www.ted.com/talks/molly_crockett_beware_neuro_bunk.html
    Chocolate most certainly does. I'm sure a few people are alive today because of my sometimes overzealous consumption.
  • sqshyfsh
    sqshyfsh Posts: 8 Member
    My mom and boyfriend's mom both LOVE Dr. Oz. The bf's mom sent us some GCB pills in the mail, so we figured, what the heck?? Neither of us saw a difference - and at that point we hadn't made any other changes in our lifestyle. I did not take them regularly, because I am terrible at that kind of stuff. But the bf did take them almost everyday and so no change.

    My opinion? Bunk and a way to make money.
  • AnvilHead
    AnvilHead Posts: 18,343 Member
    As a testament to how awesome green coffee bean extract is, this guy used it for months, and this is the result:
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    He looks Elite. Must have given up fast food as part of his green coffee bean extract regimen (which, by the way, is a junk diet scam and will do nothing but make your wallet lighter).
  • taso42
    taso42 Posts: 8,980 Member
    I've heard about it on Dr. Oz's show

    That is a sufficient condition for avoiding something.
  • Ready2Rock206
    Ready2Rock206 Posts: 9,487 Member
    If Dr. Oz said it then no, just no. Is his whole career just promoting scammy products?! What a quack.
  • Sarauk2sf
    Sarauk2sf Posts: 28,072 Member
    ^^ What he said.

    ^^What she said about what he said.
  • mgobluetx12
    mgobluetx12 Posts: 1,326 Member
    Do a search on this topic and you will find lots of posts with pretty much the same responses you're getting here. Dr. Oz is paid to promote those and the thousands of other 'miracle' pills he claims will help you.
  • chubbygirl253
    chubbygirl253 Posts: 1,309 Member
    It prolly won't have any significant results. Oh wait, Dr. Oz recommended it? In that case...

    IT WON'T WORK!

    You do know he's a quack, right?

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