Hydroxycut Review

One of the most popular supplements on the market, hydroxycut uses calcium, chromium, potassium, a 1.32g proprietary blend of garcinia cambogia, gymnema sylvestre extract, soy phospholipids, and rhodiola rosea extract, and a 414mg proprietary blend of green tea extract, caffeine anhydrous, white tea extract, and oolong tea extract. The website cites numerous randomized, double blind, placebo controlled clinical trials. Hydroxycut can be found in numerous drugstores across the country.

Price: $29.99/72 capsules

Ingredients and Mechanism of Action

Widely available in numerous drug and grocery stores, Hydroxycut is highly accessible. It uses popular ingredients including green tea, caffeine, garcinia cambogia, and white and oolong tea.

Hydroxycut started out using ephedra, and like many of its competitors, had to reformulate when ephedra was banned in the United States. Like many of its ephedra using competitors, it has never quite recovered from that fall. They have never been able to find sufficient ingredients to replace the effectiveness of ephedra. But in my research, I have found that those companies who used ephedra in the past follow a common pattern. They tend to take the popular or easy way out and use whatever ingredients everybody else is using, whether or not they happen to be safe, or whether or not they happen to actually be effective. They also tend to use proprietary blends of those common ingredients, which means 9 times out of 10 that they are hiding fillers.

While hydroxycut does provide links to full descriptions of the studies they use, that may have been one of their biggest mistakes. The “clinical studies on Hydroxycut” are valid studies. But they were not done in any way, shape, or form on the Hydroxycut formula in total. They were conducted on the combination of garcinia cambogia, chromium polynicotinate, and gymnema sylvestre extract. They also used higher amounts of each ingredient than hydroxycut is likely to have used.

Overall Impressions of Hydroxycut

Many consumers have bought hydroxycut, because they everybody has seen their ads on TV, they promote their products using the word of doctors and clinical trials, and they are easily accessible at just about every drug and grocery store across the country. They do use some descent ingredients. However they do not use enough of any of those ingredients to be effective. They use sneaky tactics like the fact that their clinical trials were conducted on a few ingredients and not the whole formula and the fact that they use a proprietary blend. They are more affordable than their competitors, but more often than not, you get what you pay for to some degree.

Have you used Hydroxcut? Write a Review!

yes i have used hydroxcut and i love it i lost ten pounds in two weeks without any exercise just a reduced calorie diet. i love this product!

-- carol

i used hydroxcut it was horrible it didnt work for me,

-- c.love