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Anyone use berberine for weight loss?
Posted on 6/2/24 at 7:01 am
Posted on 6/2/24 at 7:01 am
Can you relay your experience?
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Posted on 6/2/24 at 10:02 am to Pu2kph0
[img]Common side effects include diarrhea, constipation, gas, and upset stomach.[/img]
I prefer the good old fashioned way, calories in vs calories out, you know will power vs effort?
I prefer the good old fashioned way, calories in vs calories out, you know will power vs effort?
Posted on 6/2/24 at 10:03 am to Pu2kph0
Honest question - what efforts have you taken to lose weight before jumping to berberine? How long have you been working at it?
Posted on 6/2/24 at 10:37 am to AbitaFan08
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Honest question - what efforts have you taken to lose weight before jumping to berberine? How long have you been working at it?
Quite a while. I’m only about 5 pounds above my ideal weight. Thought I might ask here. No worries if no one has no info.
Enjoy today’s game. GEAUX TIGERS
This post was edited on 6/2/24 at 11:18 am
Posted on 6/2/24 at 11:07 am to Pu2kph0
You’re not far off at all from your goal. I just don’t know if a medication with those side effects is worth it. But you do you and keep up the good work! Absolutely zero judgment on my end.
Edit: also, if you’re 5lbs above your “target weight” I’d argue that you really shouldn’t be focusing on the number on the scale. Do you feel good? Are you moving well? Do you like how you look? Do you have energy throughout the day?
If the answers to those questions are all “yes” then forget about the scale.
Edit: also, if you’re 5lbs above your “target weight” I’d argue that you really shouldn’t be focusing on the number on the scale. Do you feel good? Are you moving well? Do you like how you look? Do you have energy throughout the day?
If the answers to those questions are all “yes” then forget about the scale.
This post was edited on 6/2/24 at 3:29 pm
Posted on 6/2/24 at 3:08 pm to Pu2kph0
I've taken berberine daily for just at 2 years now. (I literally started on June 1st 2022), I take it two times a day, and I wasn't taking it for weight loss and until I read this topic I'd honestly forgotten that it was supposed to be useful for weight loss. I started taking to give me an extra weapon against my blood sugars due to TD2.
I've used 5 different brands of berberine, but my favorite is the one made my NOW Sports. It is combined with MCT oil, they say it aids absorption, and all I can say is that if timed correctly, their berberine worked as well or better than Metformin for controlling blood sugars. Pretty impressive stuff. I currently don't take the NOW brand because it kept going out of stock for a while and I had to keep switching brands and the other ones I tried didn't have the same effect (the other brands also didn't compound their berberine with MCT oil, so maybe that's the key), so now I take the Nutricost brand.
The NOW brand is back in stock (I don't know how consistently is stays in stock, NOW used to be my brand for a lot of the supps I take and they were having "out of stock" issues on Amazon for lots of their stuff for a while, so I ended up exchanging lots of theirs for Nutricost brand), but one of the biggest reasons I haven't bought it again is because I enjoy the convenience of using the Amazon "subscribe and save" program and due to the supply issues, lots of the NOW brand supps are no longer offered as subscribe and save.
I never had any GI complaints that I could even begin to blame on berberine. I always took the dose recommended by the manufacturer and if I had any GI issues, it would be diarrhea or loose stools, and with the amount of junk food, fast food, and other ultra-high processed Franken-foods I tend to eat in large quantities I would blame that for the weird poops before I'd blame the berberine. Hope that helps you, even though I used it for a completely different reason than you are hoping to apply it, and for 5lbs I wouldn't even bother, but it's your choice.
I'm a bad example because I'm an outlier when it comes to appetite and food intake, and while I'm not diagnosed, I have all the indicators of someone who has a serious binge eating disorder, so I never experienced any increased appetite control from berberine. Could be a dosage issue, take more or take less, could be a timing issue. Who knows. I've lost weight in the past 2 years, but I'd put that more on all the walking and weight lifting and general improvement in my diet. I can't confirm or deny that berberine had anything to do with it. Perhaps, like the GLP1 drugs, berberine "punishes" you for eating unhealthy amounts of food or foods that are sugar laden fat bombs and therefore people who take those drugs, avoid those foods, because those symptoms are unpleasant to them. Who knows. Maybe berberine works kinda like that, try it out and see I guess.
In addition to boron, this supplement is the other one I've taken that I could see, fairly objectively, (using a glucometer to measure blood glucose), that it worked.
I've used 5 different brands of berberine, but my favorite is the one made my NOW Sports. It is combined with MCT oil, they say it aids absorption, and all I can say is that if timed correctly, their berberine worked as well or better than Metformin for controlling blood sugars. Pretty impressive stuff. I currently don't take the NOW brand because it kept going out of stock for a while and I had to keep switching brands and the other ones I tried didn't have the same effect (the other brands also didn't compound their berberine with MCT oil, so maybe that's the key), so now I take the Nutricost brand.
The NOW brand is back in stock (I don't know how consistently is stays in stock, NOW used to be my brand for a lot of the supps I take and they were having "out of stock" issues on Amazon for lots of their stuff for a while, so I ended up exchanging lots of theirs for Nutricost brand), but one of the biggest reasons I haven't bought it again is because I enjoy the convenience of using the Amazon "subscribe and save" program and due to the supply issues, lots of the NOW brand supps are no longer offered as subscribe and save.
I never had any GI complaints that I could even begin to blame on berberine. I always took the dose recommended by the manufacturer and if I had any GI issues, it would be diarrhea or loose stools, and with the amount of junk food, fast food, and other ultra-high processed Franken-foods I tend to eat in large quantities I would blame that for the weird poops before I'd blame the berberine. Hope that helps you, even though I used it for a completely different reason than you are hoping to apply it, and for 5lbs I wouldn't even bother, but it's your choice.
I'm a bad example because I'm an outlier when it comes to appetite and food intake, and while I'm not diagnosed, I have all the indicators of someone who has a serious binge eating disorder, so I never experienced any increased appetite control from berberine. Could be a dosage issue, take more or take less, could be a timing issue. Who knows. I've lost weight in the past 2 years, but I'd put that more on all the walking and weight lifting and general improvement in my diet. I can't confirm or deny that berberine had anything to do with it. Perhaps, like the GLP1 drugs, berberine "punishes" you for eating unhealthy amounts of food or foods that are sugar laden fat bombs and therefore people who take those drugs, avoid those foods, because those symptoms are unpleasant to them. Who knows. Maybe berberine works kinda like that, try it out and see I guess.
In addition to boron, this supplement is the other one I've taken that I could see, fairly objectively, (using a glucometer to measure blood glucose), that it worked.
Posted on 6/2/24 at 4:07 pm to AbitaFan08
It’s a damn supplement to control blood sugar naturally occurring. It’s not a script
To the op, what do you want to know about it?
To the op, what do you want to know about it?
Posted on 6/2/24 at 7:19 pm to lsu777
Calm down.
Posted on 6/2/24 at 10:02 pm to Pu2kph0
I have taken Berberine for blood sugar for the last couple of years with no side effects. I feel nothing different. It helps my blood sugar a little. It doesn’t help my weight loss, lol.
Posted on 6/3/24 at 11:35 am to DrDenim
What is the best timing to take it that worked so well?
Posted on 6/3/24 at 11:36 am to lsu13lsu
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What is the best timing to take it that worked so well?
about 30-60min before each meal
Posted on 6/3/24 at 11:25 pm to lsu777
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about 30-60min before each meal
Generally, that seemed to be my experience as well, even a little shorter due to food choices. Obviously it's gonna depend on how much berberine you take, and the carb amount and glycemic index of whatever you eat. I used to have a really horrid diet (I mean come on, I HAVE diabetes), so unfortunately I can speak from experience on what berberine intake does in conjunction with a solid junk food diet. I could eat some pretty atrocious food(ultra high processed crap with loads of oil and added sugars in it), but if I took about 500mg of berberine about 15-20 minutes before I ate, my blood sugar wouldn't really reflect that shitty food like you'd expect. It'd be interesting to take berberine, try different kinds of foods out(fast food, frozen foods aisle junk, healthy, the whole spectrum), and wear a continuous glucose monitor to see how the blood sugars were impacted. Obviously, I didn't have that kind of data, I was just doing pre-meal checks, and post meal checks. It definitely works.
If my glucose was 122 before eating a box of microwavable taquitos, it'd be 125 a couple hours after eating them. Just so long as I took that berberine before the meal. I started out taking berberine twice a day along with a bunch of other stuff, independent from meals, basically 0800 = AM supplements, 1900 = PM supplements. Once I figured out how to time it, I pulled the berberine from the handful of other stuff that I just took at the same times every day, and I started to match it to my meal times and it works very well that way.
Posted on 6/3/24 at 11:41 pm to Pu2kph0
I took it for a few months. I think it lowered my BP some. No effect on my weight but I wasn't trying to lose any. It didn't give me any side effects. I ran out and didn't reorder it mostly because of laziness.
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