Doctor Reviews: Java Burn

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Java Burn is a powdered supplement mix marketed towards weight loss. But does it actually work? And how effective is it?

Let’s analyze it 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 Java Burn

Let’s first take a look at the ingredients. Here are the doses per packet. The recommended dosing is one per day.

Despite the picture of coffee beans all over the packaging, these packets don’t actually contain any coffee mix. They just contain the powdered supplement, and you need to add it to your own coffee. Mixing it with water isn’t going to make any coffee.

Now whenever supplements add any ingredients into their product, there are three common issues:

1. The doses they use are way too small to be useful
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.

Vitamin D

Vitamin D plays an important part in metabolism. Evidence from observational studies suggests that obesity is associated with low vitamin D.

So if you are deficient in Vitamin D, taking Vitamin D supplements may support your weight loss progress.

However, if you have sufficient Vitamin D, taking extra Vitamin D is not going to help you to lose more weight.

This is an important distinction people should understand. Just because a nutrient is involved in metabolism and supports weight loss, doesn’t mean that taking more of it will speed up your weight loss progress.

It’s more like if you don’t have enough of it, it might slow down your weight loss progress. But once you have enough of it, it’s not going to have any more effects on your weight.

That being said, Java Burn gives you a lower, but workable dose of Vitamin D at 800 IU, even though most supplements typically provide at least 1000 IU.

B vitamins

The B vitamins, particularly B12, is used by our bodies as a part of our metabolism, by helping to convert food into energy.

Just like Vitamin D, supplementing with additional B vitamins don’t help people to lose more weight, although deficiencies in those vitamins can make it more difficult for your body to burn fat and slow down your weight loss.

Some diets, like vegetarian and vegan diets, often supplement B12 since those diets are naturally low in them.

However, the B vitamin doses provided in Java Burn are hardly useful. Useful B vitamin supplements are providing a few hundred times the dose that Java Burn provides.

Chromium

There is some weak evidence to suggest that supplementing chromium in people who have insulin resistance problems like PCOS or diabetes, might help with insulin control, and allow their bodies to respond better to their body’s insulin.

This doesn’t really translate to much weight loss unfortunately, with the average person losing around 1 additional pound over a few months.

Unfortunately, these beneficial effects only appear to affect people who have diabetes or PCOS. So if you’re healthy, chromium likely won’t do much for you.

Also the doses in Java Burn are too low to be useful, so it’s not going to help even if you have diabetes or PCOS.

Green tea and green coffee extract

The benefits of green tea and green coffee for weight loss are mostly due to the caffeine content, helping to improve exercise and increase physical activity.

However, if we go by all the listed ingredients on the label, the actual caffeine content in Java Burn is likely very low since the green tea and green coffee extracts in Java Burn are not refined and the doses are so low.

The other benefits of green tea and green coffee beyond the caffeine, like having anti-inflammatory or antioxidant properties, really depend on specific compounds found in these extracts. For you to be able to get these benefits, supplements need to purify those specific compounds.

For example, green tea has a specific compound called epigallocatechin gallate, or simply EGCG, which is believed to provide the beneficial effects of green tea.

Similarly, green coffee has a specific compound called chlorogenic acid.

Java Burn does not purify these extracts, so you’re likely not getting much EGCG or chlorogenic acid at all.

L-Carnitine

L-Carnitine is an amino acid that’s used by your body to help convert fat into energy.

Research suggests that L-carnitine may help those who are actively exercising to lose a small amount of additional weight, with patients losing on average 2-3 pounds over a few months.

Unfortunately, the doses that were used in those studies were over 2000 mg per day. The 100 mg Java Burn provides is 20 times less than a useful dose, and is not going to be helpful at all.

L-Theanine

L-theanine is another amino acid that is often used to help support cognition and improve wakefulness.

It’s not expected to do anything for weight loss, but may support your efforts to exercise more, and burn more calories through exercise.

You’re probably not going to get this effect from Java Burn since the dosing again is a little too low.

Java Burn Side Effects and Concerns

From the listed ingredients, the possible caffeine content is probably the most concerning ingredient.

Caffeine can negatively affect some people who are too sensitive to it, are taking certain medications, or are pregnant or breastfeeding.

However, if we go strictly by the label, the actual amount of caffeine in Java Burn is likely very small, which would explain why they want you to put it into your own coffee, since this product lacks much of its own caffeine.

The crude green tea and green coffee extracts found in Java Burn don’t provide much of anything beneficial for weight loss, including caffeine.

So even though the pictures of coffee beans all over the packaging would suggest you should watch out for the caffeine stimulation in Java Burn, I don’t think there’s actually enough caffeine in there to cause problems, or do much of anything for most people.

Is Java Burn effective?

From what I’ve seen, Java Burn’s ingredients suggest they are trying to create a supplement that supports exercise, meaning that it would only be useful if you were already actively increasing your exercise.

However the doses they use are way too low, and many of the extracts are ineffective.

They seem to indirectly recognize that it’s useless by telling you to combine it with a coffee, which might actually help some people exercise more. The coffee that is, not the supplement.

Mixing this into the coffee is not likely going to make the coffee any more effective for weight loss nor benefit your exercise. And I highly doubt it’s going to improve the taste because Vitamin B6 has this nasty salty bitter taste to it if you’ve ever tasted Vitamin B6 dissolved in liquid before. It’s not pleasant.

Overall, Java Burn is mostly just an expensive Vitamin D supplement. It tries to combine a few ingredients that can improve wakefulness, but uses doses that aren’t going to do anything.

Overall rating: Java Burn

Reviewing Java Burn by effectiveness for weight loss, I’m giving it an F. I don’t expect it to improve the coffee that you’re mixing it with, in any way, shape, or form. Anyways, using caffeine for weight loss requires you to exercise more, and if you’re unwilling to do that, even just the coffee may not help very much.

Reviewing Java Burn by cost, I’m giving it an F. It’s a pretty expensive supplement that can be replicated by just adding Vitamin D into your coffee.

Reviewing Java Burn for safety, I’m giving it a B. Assuming there is no contamination, illegal ingredients, or unreported caffeine, most of the ingredients are relatively safe to use and realistically, the caffeine content in Java Burn is too low to do much of anything.

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

Top alternatives to Java Burn

If you’re looking to achieve similar effects, but better than those of Java Burn, I would combine a quality green coffee or green tea extract + L-carnitine + L-theanine + vitamin D.

• Green coffee (caps) – 1 to 2 caps / day
• Green tea (caps) – 2 to 4 caps / day
• Green tea (teabags, decaf) – 1 to 4 cups / day
• Green tea (teabags) – 1 to 4 cups / day
• L-Carnitine (caps) – 2 to 4 caps / day
• L-Carnitine (powder) – 2 to 4 scoops / day
• L-Theanine – 2 to 4 lozenge / day
• Vitamin D (caps) – 1 to 2 caps / day
• Vitamin D (drops) – 1 to 2 drops / day

Learn more about

• Chromium for Weight Loss
• Is Coffee Good for Weight Loss?
• Green Tea for Weight Loss
• Green Coffee Bean for Weight Loss
• L-Carnitine for Fat 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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