What is Coleus Forskohlii?

• Coleus forskohlii, a plant native to subtropical and warm temperate habitats, and a member of the mint family.
• Coleus forskohlii is the only known plant source of forskolin, a natural compound that increases lean body mass and optimizes body composition.

Is Coleus a natural ingredient?

How does Forskolin work?

• Forskolin, facilitates a cascade of biochemical events in the body that allows fat cells tbe used as energy and helps utilize readily available hormones to maintain and/or increase lean body mass.
• Specifically, forskolin activates an enzyme called adenylate cyclase, the main enzyme involved in the production of a significant metabolic molecule called cyclic adenosine monophosphate, or cAMP. cAMP is directly responsible for triggering the above described processes, i.e. increasing the enhancement of essential lean mass-building hormones at the expense of non-essential body fat.

What is lean body mass?

• Lean body mass is constituted by muscles, vital organs, bone and bone marrow, connective tissue and body water.
• Lean body mass is the percent of your total body weight that is not fat.

Why is it important to increase lean body mass?

• The percentage of lean body mass to fat determines the body’s aesthetic appearance, but more importantly, it is an index of physical fitness, health status, susceptibility to disease and premature death.
• Lean body mass helps regulate the body’s metabolism and actually regulates body fat to maintain it at healthy levels.

Forskolin vs. weight loss ingredients such as ephedra or bitter orange?

• While ephedra and bitter orange can both successfully reduce body fat, they follow a different metabolic path in the body than forskolin.
• Ephedra and bitter orange are sympathomimetics. They stimulate adrenergic receptors, which can increase blood pressure and pulse rate and lead thigh blood pressure and anxiety.
• Forskolin is not a sympathomimetic and does not stimulate adrenergic receptors, and in clinical studies did not increase blood pressure or cause anxiety.

Has Forskolin been clinically tested?

• Yes. Forskolin has been studied and independently tested in clinical trials.
• Results show an overall trend to increase lean body mass, and decrease body fat content, weight and BMI (mean Body Mass Index).

Is Forskolin safe?

• Yes. Based on pre-clinical safety evaluations and clinical study results, there were no significant differences observed in blood chemistry or vital signs including pulse rate and blood pressure. One study indicates an increase in energy levels in individuals taking forskolin.

How much weight can I expect to lose using forskolin?

• Although results vary from individual to individual and from study to study, forskolin helps maintain healthy body weight. Participants in clinical trials shed between two to nine pounds over an eight to twelve week period or did not gain body weight; more importantly the participants preserved or increased their lean body mass as compared to the placebo-receiving group.
• Again, the concept behind the development of forskolin is to achieve overall health and well being by creating a more healthy balance between lean body mass and fat, even if significant weight loss is not shown.