Dr. Brian’s Blog

Mushroom Coffee: Hype or Health Hero?

Mushroom coffee tries to enhance its health benefits by adding powdered mushrooms, but the evidence behind these benefits are weak at best.

NZT-48 Premium Brain Booster contains an excessive number of ingredients, resulting in inadequate doses for nearly every component.

Bovine colostrum supplements offer modest support for gut healthand immunity. However, their efficacy may be overshadowed by probiotics.

Fitspresso uses doses that are too low to be effective, even though some of its ingredients may have been useful for blood sugar control.

Like many other “night-time fat burners”, NiteLEAN is just a regular sleep aid that does nothing for actual fat burning.

Contrave is a synergistic combination of buproprion and naltrexone, which can be replicated to some degree using the generics individually.

Many types of gastric balloons exist, from swallowable to adjustable, although the standard Orbera balloon remains the most commonly used.

Puravive is a shameless rebrand of Expiure, a completely useless supplement built entirely on false science and empty promises.

New obesity drugs target more than just GLP-1 and do much more than suppress appetite for a more nuanced approach to weight loss.

Hourglass Fit isn’t much more than a fancy glucomannan soluble fiber supplement. These supplements don’t work without a proper diet plan.

Atrafen Elite is a caffeine supplement that contains poorly studied compounds that are neither effective nor safe for weight or fat loss.

Cayenne does not burn fat in humans. In reality, Fire Bullets doesn’t seem to offer much more benefit than a standard caffeine supplement.