Does green coffee bean extract really work for weight loss?

Coffee is a great drink for health, especially for women’s fitness. Because coffee contains caffeine and acid, which can help to improve your brain functions, burn fat and protect your skin. There is a product made of coffee called green coffee bean extract which is believed to help to lose weight. So, what is green coffee’s extract and how can the extract help weight loss?

First, what is green coffee?

Green coffee is unroasted coffee beans. As you know, coffee trees have fruits called “coffee cherries”. These cherries contain the seeds inside which are called “coffee beans”. To become coffee drinks, coffee beans have to go through plenty of processes, including drying, selecting, roasting, grinding, etc. However, according to scientific study, green coffee beans can work as a losing weight method.

How does it work?

Green coffee beans contain chlorogenic acid, which can slow the release of glucose into the body after eating foods. The chlorogenic acid can reduce absorption of carbohydrates from the digestive tract, which lowers blood sugar and insulin spikes. This acid can reduce body’s weight, reduce fat absorbed from the diet, reduce fat stored in the liver and improve the function of the fat burning hormone adiponectin (a hormone helps to regulate glucose and break down fatty acid). More importantly, green coffee beans contains very high amount of chlorogenic acid.

Green coffee bean extract.

Because it is unable to eat the raw green coffee beans (it is super bitter and hardly to eat), manufacturers produce green coffee bean extract. As you may know, green coffee extract is processed from green coffee beans under the form of a pill. The green coffee bean extract is sold widely at health food store.

Warnings you would love to know.

• There is no clear report about negative side effect of green coffee bean extract. However, the extract contains high amount of caffeine (higher than normal roasted coffee), which can cause stomachache, increased heart beats, frequent urination, sleeping disorder, restlessness and anxiety.
• The green coffee bean extract is produced by various brands and manufacturers. And not all of them can be trusted. So if you have intention of using this extract, you should research as much as you can about the reliability of different products, ask someone with diverse experiences about this issue and talk to health care professional to know your body is suitable for this method (for example, green coffee bean is not for people with high blood pressure or diabetes).
• You should buy green coffee bean extract from verified and trusted website such as Amazon as Amazon has strictly controlled the sellers.

To conclude, the effect of green coffee beans in weight loss had been proved, but not official. Even though there were many people claiming that they were successful in losing weight by using green coffee bean extract, you should be really careful and seriously considered. By the way, doing exercises and having a healthy life are always the best and safest ways to loosing weight.