A New Approach To Weight Loss And Increased Exercise Performance

By Kevin DiDonato MS, CSCS, CES

Capsaicin, the pungent part of the hot pepper, has the potential to shed weight, especially shed stored fat calories.

The pungent component of red peppers could enable the activation of key hormones and receptors that are responsible for making your fat cells SPLIT and BURN off.

Now, researchers are looking to other compounds in capsaicin for even MORE health benefits.

Compounds, such as capsiate for example, could be just as powerful for weight loss AND for increasing exercise performance as capsaicin.

Emerging research shows that capsiate has the potential to unlock fatty acids for use during endurance exercise.

Let me explain…

Capsiate

Capsiate is the NON-pungent component of capsaicin.

So non-pungent in fact, researchers showed that mice that drank a solution containing capsiate, showed no adverse reactions to the mixture.

This very well could mean that YOUR body can handle it as well.

And this is very important, in regards to what else the researchers found.

Researchers subjected mice to a mixture that contained 10 mg/kg of capsiate solution orally before exercising in a countercurrent pool.

They found mice that drank the capsiate mixture, swam longer than the control group.

Also, they saw a much higher glucose concentration in calf muscles of the mice fed the capsiate mixture.

And this quite possibly led to the discovery that the mice also had higher serum fatty acid concentrations than the control group.

What’s even more exciting:  the respiratory rate ALSO increased in mice when at rest and when exercising (swimming).

Simply put, they were able to burn more calories at rest and during exercise.

Their work showed that oral intake of capsiate was able to enhance fat oxidation and spared carbohydrate use during exercise in the mice.

And, the endurance of the mice INCREASED, potentially by stimulating the vanilloid receptors, also known as the TPR-V1 receptors.

Vanilliod receptors, when activated, play a large role in controlling your stress, appetite, mood and pain.

These specialized receptors are “turned on” in the presences of capsaicin.

Overall, capsiate may improve your performance and increase your FAT BURN.

The Amazing Benefits Of Capsaicin

Different compounds in the hot pepper, can potentially burn FAT, and spare your muscle sugars to increase exercise endurance.

Capsiate, a non-pungent compound could very well increase endurance by using more fatty acids as calories, therefore sparing the sugar stored in your muscles.

Sparing your muscle stores, could force your body to breakdown fatty acids and use them for calorie-burning energy.

This quite possibly could increase your metabolism, and burn FAT as extra calories to give you a slim, trim waistline, and improve your exercise performance.