Doctor Reviews: Exipure

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Exipure is a heavily marketed supplement that apparently spawned a bunch of knockoffs. With so much sponsored content around Exipure and copies of them lying around, is this supplement any good?

Well I’m not sponsored by them, so let’s comprehensively review Exipure to see if it’s worth your money, see if we can replicate it with a cheaper alternative, and give it an overall rating.

Ingredients of Exipure

Let’s first take a look at the ingredients. Here are the doses per capsule. The recommended dosing is one per day. By the way, I’m just referring to the “original” copy of Exipure if there was such a thing.

Right off the bat, a huge problem with this supplement is that all of its ingredients combined into a “proprietary blend”.

Supplement companies just need to list the ingredients inside a proprietary blend, they don’t need to list the exact doses inside. So what Exipure has done here is to list the ingredients within the blend, but not the doses of each ingredient.

You need to be very cautious about proprietary blends. It displays a lack of transparency on the part of the supplement.

They can list an effective ingredient, but only have tiny of it and you wouldn’t be able to tell since the dose isn’t listed.

Exipure could be using their proprietary blend to hide very low doses within their ingredient list, and if they’re hiding the actual dose from you, it’s much more difficult to determine whether you’re getting an effective dose.

With that in mind, let’s try to analyze what we do know. Whenever supplements add any ingredients into their product, there are three very common issues:

1. The doses they use are way too small to be effective
2. They aren’t using the active compounds
3. The ingredient itself has not reliably shown any beneficial effect in humans.

When we analyze these ingredients, we’re going to see which of these issues they have.

Leaf and Olive extract

Olive oil is full of polyunsaturated fats, which may be beneficial for cardiovascular and metabolic health.

Taking olive oil supplements seems kind of silly to me since you could just buy regular extra virgin olive oil from the supermarket far cheaper and just take that, like by drizzling some olive oil onto your salad.

Furthermore, the research studies that find health benefits from taking olive oil were from people using it in their diet, not taking olive oil supplements.

The likely reason for this is dosage. People who regularly use olive oil and gain benefit from it are taking many grams of olive oil per day, not a few hundred milligrams.

Even if the entire 300 mg proprietary mix of Exipure was olive oil extract, it likely still wouldn’t do anything for you.

Holy Basil

Holy Basil is a traditional Ayurvedic herb used to help with inflammation. It doesn’t have any evidence for weight loss, but it has some very weak evidence for helping diabetics control their blood sugar levels.

However the doses used in studies are 500 mg per day. Again, even if the entire 300 mg proprietary mix was Holy Basil, there still wouldn’t be enough.

Bee Propolis

Propolis is a mixture that honey bees produce by mixing their saliva and beeswax with sap, to create a sticky substance used to seal parts of their hive.

Again, there is no evidence for weight loss, but some studies have suggested that propolis might be able to help diabetics control blood sugar levels as well.

But again, dosing in Exipure is a problem, with most studies using almost a 1000 mg per day. There’s no way Exipure has enough to be useful.

Berberine, Kudzu, and Perilla

Berberine, Kudzu, and Perilla are all traditional herbs that are known for their traditional uses to help reduce general inflammation and for various gastrointestinal issues.

Kudzu and Perilla lack much evidence for any of these uses, but there is some evidence that berberine might help improve insulin sensitivity in those with diabetes or PCOS, but the doses they use in those studies range from 1-2 grams per day, again totally insufficient in Exipure.

Even when Kudzu and Perilla are used for traditional purposes, herbalists are using many grams of those herbs, not a few hundred milligrams.

Quercetin

Quercetin is a general nutrient found in many fruits and berries, and has some general beneficial effects on health, such as for cardiovascular and metabolic health.

None of them are expected to be helpful for weight loss, however even then, the doses used in the studies are far above what Exipure could possibly provide in a single pill. So the amount of quercetin that’s provided in Exipure is mostly useless.

Korean Ginseng

Korean ginseng, also known as Panax ginseng, is a herb known for its stimulating effects. So people taking panax ginseng might be taking it to help with fatigue or to improve wakefulness, potentially to help them exercise more while losing weight.

There is some evidence that panax ginseng can help improve cognitive function, as well as potentially also help with blood sugar control in those with diabetes.

Unfortunately, studies don’t find that these effects are able to help people lose any actual weight.

Nevertheless, the studies are using anywhere from 200 to almost 1000 mg per day. Will the 300 mg of Exipure’s proprietary blend have enough inside to be useful? Unlikely.

Exipure Side Effects and Concerns

From the listed ingredients, my main concern would be the berberine contained within. We’re not sure exactly how much is in there, but berberine can interfere with other medications, by affecting the way your liver metabolizes certain drugs.

So taking it with other drugs could reduce the effectiveness of the drug, or increase its level in the body to toxic levels. So if you’re taking any medication, you should ask your doctor to see if it’s safe for you to take.

Berberine is also unsafe if you’re pregnant or breastfeeding.

Is Exipure effective?

Given everything I’ve seen, this supplement is completely useless.

Exipure appears to be trying to cater itself towards blood sugar control, but only for those with metabolic issues like diabetes.

So if you didn’t have diabetes or blood sugar issues, I’m pretty sure this would do absolutely nothing for you.

Even if you had blood sugar issues, I don’t think this would help at all since nothing is dosed correctly. Everything is dosed far too low.

Overall, Exipure is worthless. It tries to combine a number of herbal products that target blood sugar control, but uses doses that aren’t going to do anything.

Overall review: Exipure

Reviewing Exipure by effectiveness for weight loss, I’m giving it an F. I don’t expect it to do much of anything. And even if you have blood sugar control issues, the doses it uses are so low it likely still wont do anything.

Reviewing Exipure by cost, I’m giving it an F. It’s a pretty expensive supplement that can be completely outdone by just taking berberine at a cost almost 6-12 times less.

Reviewing Exipure for safety, I’m giving it a C. It may not be safe for those taking medications since berberine can interfere with them.

Overall review, I’m giving Exipure an F. I would recommend you stay away from it.

Top alternatives to Exipure

It’s hard to compare it to any other supplement since nothing is useful in Exipure, but if I had to try to replicate the gist of what Exipure was trying to do, I would probably go with a high quality berberine supplement.

If you’re looking to achieve similar effects, but better than those of Exipure, I would combine a quality berberine + Panax ginseng.

• Berberine (dihydro) – 2 to 4 caps / day
• Berberine (generic) – 2 to 3 caps w/ meals
• Berberine (Thorne) – 1 to 2 caps w/ meals
• Panax ginseng – 2 to 6 caps / day

Learn more about

• The Exipure and Alpilean Scam
• Berberine for Weight Loss
• 6 Things To Look For On Supplements
• 5 Things to Know Before Buying Weight Loss Supplements
• Other weight loss supplements

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