Species Nutrition, a popular company on big sites like BodyBuilding.com, has come out with a product called Lipolyze.  They claim that it can give you stimulant free fat burning while helping you to maintain lean muscle mass.  And according to advertisements, you will finally be able to get the higher metabolic rate you are looking for with all the benefits of eliminating your predisposition to gain fat.

So what are the ingredients in this formula?  They start out with what they call usnic acid.  Usnic acid is used in cosmetics, perfumes, and other cosmetics.  However, it has never actually been connected to any part or element of weight loss.  From there, they also use vitamin E, an essential vitamin that has no relation to weight loss, and l-carnitine, an amino acid that has no relation to weight loss.

So obviously, they don’t really get off to a good start.  On the good side, they do have one good ingredient, actually two.  But the first is green tea, and it has been shown to burn fat if used in the right amount.    It requires about 400mg specifically of 50% caffeine green tea.  They have 300mg, and they don’t specify the caffeine content, meaning they don’t have the required type.

Their other valid ingredient is known as guggulsterones.  Guggulsterones have two different properties.  First of all, it has been used to build lean muscle mass to naturally enhance metabolism in some ways.  This means that you can actually tone up and lose more fat in the long run, better maintaining results.  The trick is that you have to actually have the dark kind, which is far more expensive than the light kind.  But the dark variety is actually the only one that works.

Then there’s the fact that it is rich in iodine.  Many connect this to the thyroid, and they claim that it must promote a higher metabolism and therefore weight loss, because iodine is good for a basically healthy thyroid.  The problem is that of course, if you have a basically healthy thyroid, using iodine is not going to stimulate a higher metabolic effect.

But also, if you don’t have a healthy thyroid, indicating a bigger difference if you improve its state, you need medical help.  You cannot use iodine or any other health supplement to cure that.  And if you did, you would be even more rare than the disorder itself. And with just 10mg to its name, there is no way you could get the benefits anyway.

All of this in mind, obviously speaking you will not actually end up losing weight with Species Nutrition Lipolyze.  It does not have the effectiveness you are looking for, and there are various other options to say the least.  For one thing, there are other formulas that would have more than 2 ingredients appropriate to the cause, and they might actually have the proven amounts of at least one.  You will not actually find any of that here.