Ephedra Weight Loss Pills

The reputation of diet pills with ephedra is still remarkable. Millions of consumers each year persist in the effort to look for ephedra products that have not been available for years. Products like Stacker 2 with ephedra, Xenadrine RFA-1, or Hydroxycut with ephedra, and of course Metabolife 356 the company that made it has gone bankrupt due to the large amount of lawsuits.

Diet pills with ephedra are made with Ma Huang an herb mainly grown in India and China. Used medicinally for thousands of years then it became known in the US for the powerful ability to promote weight loss when combined with caffeine. It was also extremely cheap along with being effective making consumers very happy.

Ephedra had not been originally used for weight loss till it was found around twenty years ago to encourage the body to release and burn fat. When the alkaloid ephedrine, found in ephedra, is used in large enough amounts over a long enough period of time the body will tend to consume additional fat for fuel, more than it normally does resulting in weight loss.

It is estimated that within a few years around 3/4 of all Americans will be overweight. Right now there are already approximately 300,000 deaths each year related to obesity complications such as heart disease. All the prescription drugs being sold has not slowed this tremendous problem, just the opposite has occurred and obesity rates are accelerating. This makes the drug companies very happy to have more sick people buying their drugs while they continue their campaign of telling the public that herbs like ephedra are dangerous or do not work.

A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 2000 showed that within a 12 month period over 100,000 deaths resulted from the proper administration of prescription drugs. These types of prescription related deaths are now the 4th leading cause of death in America with only heart disease, cancer and stroke leading the way. Ephedra and ephedrine products may have contributed to about 84 deaths over a period of 10 years. NSAIDs (Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs) accounts for an estimated 7,600 deaths and 76,000 hospitalizations in the United States." NSAIDs include aspirin, ibuprofen and other similar drugs.

In response to a stressful situation, your sympathetic nervous system gears up to either go to battle or escape a situation immediately. Heart rate and blood pressure increase to prepare the body for action. Ephedrine mimics the effects of epinephrine and norepinephtine, the two naturally occurring chemicals in the body primarily responsible for the fight or flight syndrome. When you take ephedrine, then, you're basically stimulating your sympathetic nervous system, causing: a faster heartbeat, increased force of heart contraction and increased blood flow, increased blood pressure, increased thermogenesis (the body's heat production, generated by calorie-burning) increased blood flow to the brain slightly increased basal metabolic rate.

The FDA wanted to ban ephedra. When they were holding hearings and gathering evidence about ephedra they ignored supporting information, and twisted harmful information so that ephedra would look as bad as possible.

Be sure to click the link at the bottom of this article if you are interested in ephedra and still want to use it. Especially if you wanted a particular popular fat burner there are ways to make your own.

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