NeOpuntia Review
NeOpuntia is 100% natural (which you may or may not care about), made from the Opuntia ficus indica cactus using NeOpuntia’s patented process…
But what does it do?
It has “lipophilic capacity”. According to their website, NeOpuntia is a complex of insoluble and soluble fibers that allow a “unique fat lipophilic mechanism”.
Basically, these fibers bind with the fat, causing the fat to no longer be absorbable by the small intestine, so the fat is then eliminated through the gastric system (much like Alli, though Alli’s side effects have been reported as, eh, violently worse).
So what about some research? Most of the research that I found was put out there by the NeOpuntia company itself. And it makes sense that they would want to put that research out there if it was favorable (all of it was, you can see for yourself).
One study though, published internationally in Advances in Therapy, showed some great results:1
Forty-two females taking NeOpuntia with no additional hypolipemic treatment, had a pronounced reduction in LDL cholesterol, especially after day 14. At the study end, 39% of the NeOpuntia group, but only 8% of the placebo group, were no longer diagnosed with metabolic syndrome. Our results indicate an advantage of using NeOpuntia in dietary supplements and functional foods because of improvement of blood lipid parameters associated with cardiovascular risks.
I’m a fan of NeOpuntia.
- Adv Ther. 2007 Sep-Oct;24(5):1115-25. [↩]