ForsLean Review
The source of ForsLean is the roots of the Coleus forskohlii plant, apparently the only known plant source of forskohlin. Forskohlin is used (according to the patent of ForsLean) “for promoting lean body mass and treating mood disorders.”
We’re trying to lose weight, not really worry about lean body mass, right? Wrong! When you lose weight, a lot of times you’re not only losing fat, but also vital lean body mass. Increased body mass regulates your body’s metabolism and helps you lose weight. When you lose lean body mass, your metabolism slows down, which means you’ll have difficulty maintaining the weight you’ve lost (this is why you see the yo-yo effect so often with diets that don’t discriminate between losing muscle and losing fat).
The literature is very supportive of forskohlin as it relates to lipolysis in isolated fat cells:
- Horm. metabol. Res. 19 (1987), pp. 358-360
- J. Pharmacology and Experim. Therapeutics 238 (1986), pp. 659-664
- J. Pharmacology and Experim. Therapeutics 244 (1988), pp. 852-858.
One study as cited on ForsLean’s site (yes, they actually cite the studies, unlike most diet pill companies) concluded:
Results suggest that ForsLean® may help mitigate weight gain in overweight females with apparently no clinically significant side effects.1
So will the fat just melt away when you supplement with a diet pill containing ForsLean? No. But if used in combination with some weight loss agent that is more powerful (along with, perhaps, an effective appetite suppressant), it can play a vital role because it will mitigate the loss of that critical lean body mass that is necessary to keep the weight off once and for all.
- Kreider RB, et al. Effects of Coleus forskohlii supplementation on body composition and markers of health in sedentary overweight females. Experimental Biology 2002 Late Breaking Abstracts. LB305: 2002. [↩]