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Cutting
Gel Facts
What
You Can Expect When Using Cutting Gel
Cutting Gel is marketed to people who
have not had success with pills and powders. The concept sounds
great: the "active ingredients" are absorbed through
the skin and force the fat cells to release fat into the bloodstream
so it can be burned for energy. The end result is supposedly less
body fat. However, this concept is completely bogus — and
the reason is even included in the literature accompanying the
product.
According to the package insert, the "catch" to the
product's effectiveness is that you need to help burn the released
fat by increasing your exercise regimen or reducing your caloric
intake. If you don't, the fat will be "redeposited."
In other words, this product will only work if you cut calories
and/or exercise to create a caloric deficit. Of course, if you
do these things, your body will release fat into the bloodstream
on its own without the help of Cutting Gel or any other product
for that matter. The bottom line: This product is pure snake oil.
Cutting Gel Facts: What the Individual Ingredients Do
The primary ingredient in Cutting Gel is lecithin. Before the
current generation of fat burners was developed, lecithin was
popular as a "lipotrophic" agent. Lecithin helps support
the liver's ability to metabolize fats, which in theory could
lead to greater fat burning. (Lecithin contains choline and inositol,
which were sometimes sold separately as lipotrophic agents.) Unfortunately,
lecithin had little, if any, effect in the real world and it soon
lost popularity. Moreover, even if it did have some marginal effect
when consumed orally, there is no published evidence that lecithin
can be absorbed through the skin to a significant degree.
Octyl palmitate is an oily substance that serves as a carrier
for the other ingredients. It has no active properties related
to fat burning. Aminophylline is a salt of theophylline (a methylxanthine
compound like caffeine) that was once used as a cardiac stimulant
and diuretic. Now replaced by more effective agents, it was never
administered as a topical cream, so there is no evidence that
it can be absorbed through the skin either. Since aminophylline
is also a bronchodilator and has antispasmodic properties, this
is probably just as well. The paraben compounds (isopropylparaben,
isobutylparaben and butylparaben) are preservatives with no fat-burning
properties. However, they keep the octyl palmitate from getting
rancid.
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