You have to follow a low-carb diet along with the Metabosol. The study showed that Metabosol increased the weight loss on a low-carb diet, not that Metabosol all by itself is a silver bullet for weight loss.

i see in ‘products’ a new ‘metabasol’ diet aid – is this the reformulated pentabasol?

thanks

deborah

Yep.

Regarding the Pentabosol, I just wanted to let you know, for whatever it’s worth, that I personally would PREFER to take a handful of capsules than drink several ounces of liquid supplement. I take several supplements and can swill them down simultaneously (in particular, the psyllium husk capsules, for which a single serving is six medium-sized capsules). I’ll bet there are others like me who are used to doing that and might prefer a pill to a liquid. Would you considering offering Pentabosol in both forms?

Cheers!
-Kathryn

Thanks for the feedback. We’ve looked at capsules, but it would take a lot of them. It just seems easier to throw back a quick drink, especially now that we’ve got it reformulated so that it tastes better and mixes more easily. No plans for capsules in the immediate future.

We’re reformulating to get rid of the artificial sweetener and improve mixability. Should be back in a week or so.

I haven’t had a lot of direct, hands-on experience with weight-lifters and Pentabosol, but I think Fred Hahn has. As I recall, he used to (maybe still does) make it available to clients at his facility. You may want to drop him a line to see what he thinks of it.

I wanted to give you a preliminary report on my experience with Pentabasol.

I started using it last wednesday, after a long vacation during which I was eating a horrendous amount of carbs.

A brief update: I’ve been a low-carber in general since 2001, but the past year has included a pregnancy during which I was unable to low-carb for the first few months and as a result put on a fair amount of weight that did not come off after the birth. Then this vacation put on some more pounds. So having lost 100 pounds over 3 years of low-carbing, and maintaining that loss for 4 years, I now need to re-lose 40-45 pounds. I have a lot of experience with low-carbing, and how my body loses fat (with great difficulty, even when low-carbing).

So, first off, I have to say that I do think the pentabasol is working as an appetite suppressant. Usually the first few days of low-carbing after eating high-carb are horrible and I’m super hungry – I haven’t been. I’ve really had very little trouble staying both low-carb and relatively low-calorie. I’ve also lost seven pounds in four days. Now, I know some of that is water weight as I was carbed up, but still – that’s a lot.

Anyway, I’m in this for the long haul, and I think I’ll really be able to tell if the pentabasol speeds my weight loss, since I’ve lost weight before and I know how my body reacts to dieting.

I’ll update again in a few weeks once I’ve got more data.

Also, I only have 2 cans of pentabasol, and even with this merely preliminary result, want to order some more. I live abroad and will have to order it to family in the U.S. that is coming to visit within the next few weeks. So if there is any way I could also get some of the pentabasol that’s left over from the old formula, that would be great.

Thanks,

Deborah

Thanks for the report. I’m having my assistant Kristi contact you directly about ordering.

I didn’t lose any weight first week. Second week, dropped 7 lbs. Third week, no loss. I’ll probably whoosh down again this week.

I, too, don’t like it not dissolving any better but I can live with it since it works! This product is amazing. I have never experienced a curb in appetite such as what this provides. With no side effects. I still eat healthily but I don’t overeat, that’s for sure. And I am NEVER hungry. I just eat when I figure it’s time to eat. I’m impressed.

I am not exercising yet but I am eating very low carb. Which I have been doing for many months now. I just could not lose before using this product.

I’m glad to hear you’re having so much success. We are reformulating the product at this time. We hae been working with food technologists to make it taste better and mix better, and we are replacing the sucralose with a natural sweetener. We probably won’t have any product available for about two weeks. We do have a few cans of the product you have been using. I will have Kristi contact you directly to arrange ordering. Sorry for the inconvenience, but the change in taste, texture and mixability will be worth the hassle.

Good question. The answer is no.

Sorry if I came across as a nag – I was a bit dismayed thinking that my comments were either being filtered to your spam box or that I’d somehow offended you. No need to respond to this one! Hope your projects are going well and looking forward to hearing more about them.

No problem. You didn’t come across as a nag nor did you offend me. I probably took my frustrations out on you a little because I was overwhelmed with all the comments I was (am) looking at. It take 15 seconds to write a comment that says: Here’s the latest study written about in the NY Times. Your thoughts? And it takes me forever to read the article, hunt down the study, read it, digest it, and pony up my thoughts. It’s not that you did this, but others do all the time. So what it takes a questioner a half a minute to write out takes me an hour sometimes to respond to. And I’ve got a bunch just like this stacked up right now.