You are here:
- Home
- Food/Drink
- Nutrition
- Special Diets
- appetite suppressants
Special Diets/appetite suppressants
Advertisement
Question
Can you reccommned or advise on safe and effective appetite suppressants or over-the-counter diet pills in the U.S.?
Dear Kathleen,
I researched the OTC appetite suppressant and failed finding safe AND effective ones. The prescribed 'diet pills' are even worse and unless there's a morbid obesity case, I would never recommend any of them due to significant side effects and inevitable withdrawal reaction.
What really works, is changing the very structure of your way of eating from utilizing the carbohydrate metabolic pathway to the lipid (fat) metabolic pathway.
It works because on the latter, your body finally recognizes your own fat as legitimate fuel and the fact of burning it signals to the 'hunger' center in your brain that there's constant flow of fuel coming in, thus the reduced appetite.
Our dieters, almost all of them, report decreasing hunger after one week on the diet.
You might want to read more at http://bantadiet.com
Hope it helps,
Tanya Zilberter, PhD
Related Articles
Special Diets
Answers by Expert:
Tanya Zilberter, PhD
Expertise
I am in neurophysiology since 1972, my research started with studies of neuronal interactions in the hypothalamic centers of hunger and satiety. I worked for 20 years in interdisciplinary teams, with physicists and mathematicians, as an expert in neuroscience preparing conceptual models of brain regulatory systems for their further implications in larger-scale mathematical and computer modeling. Since 2007, I focus on the metabolic aspects of neuroprotection.
Experience
Academic print books:
- The current concept of homeostasis
- Cascade effects of regulatory peptides
- Physiological effects of neuropeptides
Recent academic articles:
- GABA action in immature neocortical neurons directly depends on the availability of ketone bodies
- Neuronal activity in vitro and the in vivo reality: the role of energy homeostasis.
Organizations
I am a freelance research consultant for the Infotonic Consultancy. I participate in a research project concerning neuroprotectors including energy substrates. The website related to this project is Brain Fuels where I'm trying to popularly write about brain metabolism and neuroprotection.
Publications
Popular print books:
Education/Credentials
PhD in Physiology
Past/Present Clients
Currently, I affiliate with Infotonic Consultancy as a freelance research consultant. In 1972-1991, I wrote for/collaborated with: Informatics Div., Moscow State University, Institute for Continuing Education for Physicians (Russia), Glushkov's Institute of Cybernetics (Ukraine), State Institute of Scientific and Technical Information (Russia). In 1995-2007, I used to write for the online publishers such as about.com, lifetips.com, dietandbody.com, infozine.com, atkinszone.com, bantadiet.com, reflexo-therapy.com. In 2005-2007 and in 2009, I worked for the Mediterranean Institute of Neurobiology, Marseille, France.
©2012 About.com, a part of The New York Times Company. All rights reserved.