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Imagine that you’re standing around at work or seated in a classroom taking notes. Or, maybe you’re driving to your child’s first t-ball game of the season.

What you’re NOT doing is sweating or gasping for air.

Yet your metabolism is “exercising”: It’s burning more calories than it normally does at rest, and that means more fat loss.

How many more calories is it burning? By the start of the next day, it will be as many as an athlete might burn by running at over 9 miles per hour on a treadmill for nearly 10 minutes straight (~19 calories per minute).

And it's all because of one ingredient tucked inside a natural product that’s available from any supermarket and is said to be second only to water in terms of its worldwide consumption¹.

Here’s another supermarket wonder. This naturally-occurring amino acid has the potential to reduce your caloric intake by as much as 8%. In one study², subjects who took it ate almost 100 fewer calories.

No undesirable side effects.

It simply reduced their appetite for food. Needless to say, avoiding overeating is a critical component of losing body fat and the one many of us find the most difficult to accomplish.

Let’s add a third to the mix. When subjects took a single dose of this popular ingredient, their calorie-burning rate was boosted by as much as 4% for the next two and a half hours, a change that could lead to “substantial” changes in body weight, according to the scientists who conducted the study³.

The weight loss ingredients described above are just three out of the carefully blended collection of twelve found in Prograde’s new METABOLISM dietary supplement, the latest addition to our line of products intended to help you simplify the process of achieving your proudest body.*

Everyone’s Talking About The Same Thing.

“Slim down”, “lean up”, “drop a few pounds” –whichever words you use to talk about losing weight, you’re ultimately describing the same thing: reducing body fat.

Your body can be divided into two tissue compartments: fat mass and lean mass. Fat mass includes body fat, also known as adipose tissue. Lean mass includes skeletal muscle.

Few of us want to lose muscle when we lose weight. If anything, we’re in a constant struggle to hold on to it as we age.

Body fat, in contrast, is something we strive to get rid of.

Besides affecting how you look in a swimsuit and your level of comfort in front of cameras, body fat impacts your so-called “metabolic health” and, in turn, your risk of cardiovascular disease, diabetes and other chronic diseases.

This May Be The Most Important Secret.

Perhaps the most important secret to losing body fat is “exercising” your metabolism. Physical activities like walking, lifting weights, swimming and the like can push your metabolism to work harder and thereby burn more calories.

And increasing your calorie-burning rate (a.k.a. metabolic rate) is the first step towards achieving negative fat balance, a technical term for the state of affairs in which your body is burning more fat than it’s storing.

No matter how hard you work out or how healthy you eat, if you’re not in negative fat balance, then you’re not losing body fat.

Of course, at some point during the day most of us have to stop exercising in the conventional sense of the word and make a living. The moment you do that (or consume a meal), your calorie-burning rate plummets and it becomes far more difficult to achieve negative fat balance.

This presents a problem: Similar to how you gain body fat when you remain in positive fat balance for a long period of time, losing fat requires that you remain in negative fat balance for a long period of time.

For most mortals, working out all day isn’t an option.

Fortunately, there are natural products capable of keeping your metabolism “exercising” at rest, thereby elevating your calorie-burning rate and making it easier to achieve negative fat balance.

Four of the most studied of these products are coffee, hot red pepper, cinnamon and green tea. We’ve all passed by them in the supermarket.

Few of us, however, are aware of the metabolic properties displayed by particular ingredients found inside each, and how these properties may help you simplify the process of losing body fat. Below is just a small sample of what human studies (no furry animals) have reported:

• A single 50-mg dose of caffeine, equivalent to a little over ½ a cup of coffee, was found to increase the calorie-burning rate of healthy male subjects by 6%².*

• Women given a meal containing capsaicin, the compound responsible for the painful experience of eating hot red pepper, experienced an increase in calorie-burning rate of 10% after the meal⁴.*

• Pre-diabetic subjects given a cinnamon extract reduced their body fat by 0.7% and increased their lean mass by 1.1%. No such changes were observed in subjects receiving a placebo⁵.*

• Men and women given a green tea extract increased their calorie-burning rate by 3.5%⁶.*

The figures cited above sound impressive, don’t they? The reality is that they’re not. A closer re-examination shows why:

• Caffeine: The 6% increase in calorie-burning rate only lasted 4 hours, causing subjects to burn an average of 17 more Calories. That’s roughly the caloric content of 3 tablespoons of Coca-Cola.*

• Capsaicin: The women in this study ate a curried rice curry dish containing 3 mg of capsaicin, equivalent to a few grams of hot red pepper, depending on the variety. Their calorie-burning rate increased 10%, but only for 30 minutes.*

As one of the scientists who conducted the study remarked, it would take a year to lose 1 kg (2.2 lb) of body fat at this rate⁷.*

• Cinnamon: Subjects received the cinnamon extract for 12 weeks. The daily dose was equivalent to 10 g of whole cinnamon. While the reduction in body fat experienced by the subjects taking cinnamon was significant, it was also pretty modest.*

For a 190-lb person with 25% body fat, a 0.7% decrease represents a loss of less than half a pound of body fat.* It’s questionable whether you would even notice a change this small, though the fact that the subjects taking cinnamon gained lean mass at the same time as they lost fat does make the results quite a bit more compelling.

Subjects taking cinnamon also experienced a significant decrease in systolic blood pressure.*

• Green tea: The results of this study are more impressive. Subjects who took the extract received a daily dose equivalent to 3-4 cups of brewed green tea⁸.

Their calorie-burning rate rose by 3.5%, not just for an hour or two, but for twenty-four hours.*

This meant they burned anywhere from 63.5-200 additional Calories a day (average 78.3 Calories).

Using the highest figure in this range, this is roughly equivalent to the caloric content of a small piece of pizza, or how many Calories an athlete might burn by running on a treadmill at over 9 miles per hour for almost 10 minutes without stopping.

Remember, however, that the average was 78.3 Calories.

If you did nothing else but ingest green tea and it increased your calorie-burning rate by this amount every single day, it would take you nearly 7 weeks to lose one pound of body fat.*

Burning Calories In The “Real World”

A considerable amount of scientific research suggests that key ingredients in coffee (caffeine), hot red pepper (capsaicin), cinnamon (polyphenols) and green tea (catechins) have a modest ability to increase your calorie-burning rate or in some other way assist with weight loss and protection against obesity.* While taking larger doses may produce stronger weight loss effects, it also increases the risk of undesirable “side” effects.

Here are a couple of examples.

As scientists who have studied capsaicin point out, most Westerners would find it very difficult if not impossible to get enough of his compound from the diet (e.g. as by adding hot red pepper to meals) to achieve a fat-reducing effect⁹. It’s just too painful.

Others have shown that caffeine or coffee only produce increases in 24-hour calorie-burning rate (i.e. as opposed to an increase that only lasts an hour or two) when doses in the range of 600-1000 mg of caffeine are ingested³.

That’s equivalent to drinking 6-12 cups of coffee in a single day, levels known to produce disturbances in mood (e.g. anxiety) and blood pressure in some individuals.

Even the relatively smaller doses found to produce modest benefits (without undesirable side effects) in studies may be impractical to achieve by relying on the diet alone.

Studies on cinnamon, for example, have used the equivalent of anywhere from 1-10 g of cinnamon powder, quantities not ordinarily used in food. While it may be possible to get enough cinnamon from the diet to lose body fat, USDA scientist Dr. Richard Anderson (Ph.D.) explains that cinnamon obtained this way may be “inactivated” by polyphenol-binding proteins secreted by your salivary glands¹⁰.

Others, like Dr. Andrew Blannin (Ph.D.) think that it would be extremely hard to consume enough cinnamon to produce improvements in insulin sensitivity without taking supplements¹¹.*

In light of everything we’ve discussed, it could be argued that the most sensible approach is to take just enough of each ingredient to produce a small calorie-burning effect so that the overall effect is that much greater.

Unfortunately, based on studies like those referred to here, putting such a “team approach” into practice by relying on the diet only could amount to drinking 3-4 cups of green tea, adding hot red peppers to several meals and swallowing 10 g of cinnamon, all followed by at least one, if not 2, 3, 4 or more, cups of black coffee.

If that doesn’t sound delicious, then we don’t know what does. There’s got to be a simpler way.

The Simpler Way: New METABOLISM

Prograde’s new METABOLISM dietary supplement is intended to serve as a simple tool for helping you “exercise” your metabolism, raise your calorie-burning rate and get you into the negative fat balance territory where fat loss actually occurs.*

How simple is METABOLISM to use? For starters, one serving consists of three size “00” capsules, each measuring only 0.75 x 0.25 inches. The small dimensions make the capsules easy to swallow with water.

Yet inside each serving, Prograde’s R&D scientists managed to fit a team of the same four weight loss ingredients discussed in this article:

• Caffeine: We selected a dose of caffeine that’s been proven to increase calorie-burning rate in healthy subjects¹². Importantly, subjects taking this dose experienced no significant changes in blood pressure (no different than subjects receiving a placebo).*

• Capsaicin: Now there’s no need to add hot red peppers to your meals in order to “exercise” your metabolism. We took capsaicin isolated from the pepper plant and inserted it conveniently into each capsule of METABOLISM.

The particular capsaicin we selected came from a location in India, more than 7000 miles away. It has a 40,000 H.U. (heat units) rating that is relatively mild and thus less likely to upset sensitive stomachs.*

• Cinnamon: METABOLISM’s R&D scientists chose to use a concentrated extract of cinnamon bark in a dose equivalent to 1 gram of whole cinnamon.

This is within the range of doses used in studies investigating cinnamon’s beneficial effects on insulin sensitivity and blood glucose regulation, both of which may factor into the weight loss equation.*

• Green tea extract: The green tea extract found in each serving of METABOLISM is sourced from China (who knows green tea better?). It contains more than 112% of the dose of epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) ingested by the subjects in the study that reported a 3.5% increase in 24-hour calorie-burning rate⁶.

EGCG is the catechin believed to contribute to green tea’s anti-obesity effects.*

In an effort to further intensify METABOLISM’s calorie-burning potential, Prograde’s R&D scientists added:

• L-Tyrosine: Two servings of METABOLISM supplies 175% of the dose of this naturally-occurring amino acid found to reduce food intake in healthy subjects².

In the same study, tyrosine caused subjects to burn a greater proportion of calories from fat.*

• L-Arginine alpha-ketoglutarate (AKG): The amino acid l-arginine has a reputation for increasing levels of growth hormone (GH) and nitric oxide (NO).*

Among other things, GH is involved in the regulation of body composition, i.e. the proportion of fat mass versus lean mass.* NO helps regulate blood flow.*

Taking arginine before exercise may enhance blood flow to your working muscles by supporting the production of NO.*

• DL-Methionine, Inositol and Choline Bitartrate; Vitamins B-6, B-12 and Biotin:

This team of important nutrients was added to METABOLISM to support the movement of fat in the body and its efficient conversion into usable energy (“calories burned”).*

All of METABOLISM’s ingredients are carefully blended together using airtight stainless steal equipment.

Prior to blending, they’re stored in double-lined, fibrous drums in a room that is strictly monitored for both temperature and humidity.

Once the drums are opened, blending takes place quickly, after which the resulting mixture is re-stored in the drums to help keep its precious team of ingredients fresh and ready for metabolic action before being placed in the consumer package that ends up in your hand.*

Keep Your Metabolism In “Exercise Mode”

If METABOLISM were an actual piece of exercise equipment, it would be a high-speed treadmill, one of those commercial kinds with the four-horsepower-plus motor. (Fortunately, it is much smaller than a treadmill.)

Indeed, a team of ingredients like this has the potential to do great things to your metabolism, particularly as it concerns reducing body weight.*

However, if your goal is to swallow a few capsules with water, sit back and watch the pounds drop off without paying attention to your diet or exercise habits, then please don’t buy it.

It wasn’t designed with you in mind.

Who METABOLISM is designed for is for those of us who intend on using it as an effective adjunct to a diet containing an appropriate amount of Calories and a regular program of exercise, the latter preferably including plenty of resistance exercise.*

When used in this manner, the results you experience are likely to be much, much greater.*

Mikey received this article from a friend of his. Mike felt really passionate about this article,and wanted me to post it on the blog today....... WOW it's A LOT to take in....maybe that's why you have to read it 7 times...enjoy