Weight Loss Doc reviews Enzyme Coffee

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A patient of mine brought to my attention that there’s a drink that people are calling enzyme coffee, which is supposed to help you lose weight.

But what is this “enzyme” they’re talking about? And how does it work, if it does at all?

Let’s take a look at enzyme coffee for weight loss.

What is enzyme coffee?

Firstly, the term “enzyme coffee” is completely meaningless. An enzyme is a broad term for a protein that helps speed up chemical reactions in the body.

There are well over a 1000 different enzymes in the body that do everything from breakdown food to build muscle.

So which one is it?

It’s like selling something just called “flavored coffee”. Ok great to know that it’s flavored, but what flavor is it?

A Google search into this product yields something that goes by the name of Enzyme Coffee or Bulletproof Enzyme Coffee, and right away, you gotta love their product page.

It’s sold on a website that sells TikTok jewelry. So you know any health products sold here must be reputable.

Nowhere on the product page does it tell us what this magical enzyme is.

So for fun, I’m going to try to deduce what it could possibly be based entirely on the sketchy descriptions given to us on the website.

What is the “enzyme”?

Let’s start by taking a look at their description of enzyme coffee:

“Enzyme coffee contains an essential coenzyme of fat metabolism, which can promote the oxidative decomposition of fatty acids into mitochondria, and is the carrier of fatty acids transport.”

So our first clue is that it’s supposed to be a coenzyme involved with fat metabolism, specifically related to the transport of fats in and out of the mitochondria.

One that comes to mind right away is L-carnitine, which is indeed involved in the transport of fats in and out of the mitochondria.

As a side note, I’m not a biochemist, and my biochemistry is real rusty. So if your biochemistry is up to par, feel free to correct me in the comments down below. Let’s keep going.

“… oxidation of fatty acids, amino acids, and glucose, can pass through the cell membrane in the form of acetylcarnitine, so it has the function of promoting the oxidation of three major energy nutrients in the body.”

So now they’re claiming it’s a coenzyme involved in the transport of fats, amino acids, and glucose. Not just fats. Unfortunately L-carnitine is involved only in the transportation of fats.

But we do have another enzyme that is involved in the transport of all three, Coenzyme A, which is derived from Vitamin B5.

If we go further down, we find more:

“It is a high-quality vitamin purified from breast milk”

Ok, so now they’re saying it’s a vitamin.

There are three vitamins that come to mind that are involved in fat metabolism:

• Vitamin B2 (riboflavin)
• Vitamin B3 (niacin)
• Vitamin B5 (pantothenic acid)

And because L-carnitine is not really a vitamin, it’s starting to look like one of the other vitamins.

Also breast milk contains all of the aforementioned nutrients so that piece of information is completely useless.

So based on the entire description, the secret ingredient they might be referring to could be any one of the B vitamins, or possibly L-carnitine, with perhaps vitamin B5 fitting the description the best.

But what do I really think the secret “enzyme” is? Probably nothing. My guess is that it’s just overpriced instant coffee marketed for weight loss.

Their description of this product is so inconsistent and vague, it sounds like it was written to pack in a number of random buzzwords, rather than accurately describe a product.

It doesn’t make a whole lot of sense as a whole, and honestly looks like whoever wrote this just copied and pasted a number of biochemistry keywords from a Wikipedia article describing fat oxidation, then strung them together into a sentence.

Can it help with weight loss?

For some people, drinking any type of regular coffee might help in their weight loss, by improving their energy for exercise or by helping to suppress their cravings between meals. You can check out our article on using coffee for weight loss in the description below.

There’s nothing special about enzyme coffee. Even if they did add some B vitamins inside, you could replicate that far more reliability and cheaper by simply taking a good quality B complex supplement with your morning coffee.

If you found that mixing coffee with something else was helpful for your weight loss, then keep it up!

Perhaps mixing something in helped you to drink more coffee and eat less.

Maybe you were actually deficient in vitamin C, and adding lemon to your coffee helped perk you up enough to exercise more.

There’s no need to buy a special “weight loss” coffee off some sketchy website. You’ll do just fine getting regular coffee from a reputable vendor, and mixing whatever you like into it.

Top alternatives to Enzyme coffee

If you’re looking to achieve similar effects, but better than those of enzyme coffee, I would combine a quality green tea or green coffee extract + caffeine.

• Caffeine anhydrous – 1 cap / day
• 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

Learn more about

• Is Coffee Good For Weight Loss?
• Green Coffee Bean For Weight Loss
• Green Tea For Weight Loss
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