23 of 28 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
The Healthy Way to Weight Loss, February 11, 2012
This review is from: Diet Pills, Slimula Lose up to 20 Pounds in Just 4 Weeks!!! 60 Dietary Supplement, Slimming Capsules. (Health and Beauty)
For the price, I believe there are much more cost effective, not to mention safe solutions for weight loss and suppressing your appetite. I've struggled with my weight for 20+ years, probably trying every weight loss gimmick that's ever been sold, in the process. Honestly, you'll need to exercise and eat reasonably healthy and commit to doing this before you even think about taking any type of weight loss supplement. Turst me, I've tried the opposite approach many times! Keyword here is "supplement". After you have the other pieces of the puzzle in place (i.e. exercise, nutrition), I'd recommend looking at Bitter Orange Extract,
10 Grams (0.35 Oz) Synephrine HCL 99% (Bitter Orange Extract) (Citrus Aurantium Extract) Bulk Powder as it's a natural appetite suppressant as well as booster of the metabolism. The other keyword I believe is really important here is "natural". I've also had similar results with Yominbe Bark,
Action Labs - Yohimbe Power Max 2000, 2000 mg, 100 capsules although I know it's been getting bad press lately about potential side effects, never had any myself though. Exercise, Eat Reasonably, and do your research before buying the latest weight loss supplement fad. Do these three things and you'll save yourself 20 years of frustration, despair, and lot of money too!
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33 of 43 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Bad reaction, January 13, 2012
This review is from: Diet Pills, Slimula Lose up to 20 Pounds in Just 4 Weeks!!! 60 Dietary Supplement, Slimming Capsules. (Health and Beauty)
Took one pill this morning with water, and with in an hour was very sick, dizzy, incresed heart rate, hot flashs. So I guess if you cant keep anything down it works as a diet pill.
I read the review and tried to resreach it online for side affects, didn't find much but more advertisments, and almost the exact same review aganin and again. So lets hope its something I can return. If not wasted $39.99 and now I see it has gone up $10.00.
Just reminds me there are no short cuts in life.
Udate to review-- Two weeks later. Manny from GoOnline said he would refund my money and then delete my low reveiw. Havent seen the refund and have filed 3 claims now with Amazon as of today. DONT BELIEVE ANYTHING GO OLINE SAYS!!!!!!
BUYER BEWARE!!!!!!!!
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27 of 35 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Pure crap, fake reviewers, etc, January 11, 2012
This review is from: Diet Pills, Slimula Lose up to 20 Pounds in Just 4 Weeks!!! 60 Dietary Supplement, Slimming Capsules. (Health and Beauty)
This stuff is PURE CRAP, like all other diet pills. It will make you sick, you'll have no results, and you'll be poorer from buying this snake oil. AVOID. The company posts fake reviews of its products all over Amazon. It's so stupid, look how many reviews are coming in and look at their content. None of them are verified orders. People aren't even this unanimous about stuff that DOES WORK.
Alright, in an effort to make this review more helpful, I'm going to do a full review of Slimula's advertised ingredients. Hopefully this will prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that this terrible product is just a scam.
From their website, Slimula contains the following:
"Slimula Blend: 604mg"
-The reason for listing this as a blend was probably done intentionally. Next, they will list all of the ingredients within the 'Slimula Blend', but they avoid saying how much of each ingredient comprises the 604mg total. This obviously is of huge importance. Say they had an ingredient listed that really, really helped burn fat (but maybe it's an expensive ingredient or something). If there's only 1mg of the stuff in the Slimula Blend, it won't do anything for you, but you'll think "it contains _____!" and be thrilled.
1. Caffeine:
Common ingredient in diet pills. Caffeine actually does increase your metabolism, but you could have had a cup of coffee instead. And of course, we don't even know much caffeine is in the blend. It could be lesser than, greater than, or equal to what's in a cup of coffee but odds are this Slimula blend contains very little of each ingredient that actually works and contains mostly filler crap designed to save money and sell pills.
2. Hoodia Gordonii
There is no published scientific evidence that hoodia works as an appetite suppressant in humans. I don't think I can post links here so check it out yourself. The same principle applies here somewhat in that even if there were some promising studies showing that Hoodia suppresses the appetite to some degree in humans, the dosage is unknown here.
3. Salix alba (White Willow Extract)
This is commonly used to relieve aches and pains and reduce fevers. No evidence that it is effective for weight loss either.
4. Bitter orange (Citrus aurantium extract)
Again, no evidence it actually promotes weight loss and there are some potential serious side effects and drug interactions with this one. It may increase heart rate and blood pressure but has been linked to strokes, angina, and other serious problems.
5. Yohimbine
Again, very little reliable evidence that it promotes fat loss. In addition, the 'range between an effective dose and a dangerous dose is very narrow'. This makes Slimula's lack of transparency even more troubling. Very dangerous possible adverse effects, and considering the fact that we don't even know the dosage, a pretty big gamble to make on your health.
6. Evodia extract
No evidence for this one either. Apparently 'raised body temperature' in a rat study, but the change was not significant. Pretty sure you could raise the body temperature of a rat just by feeding it a warm grain of salt. Increased body temperature could benefit weight loss (especially water weight), so that was probably their angle here.
7. Senna extract
Of course we don't know the quantity for this ingredient either, so it may or may not be dangerous. Senna can decrease your appetite and acts as a laxative as well. This is a dangerous combination and can lead to persistent diarrhea, dehydration, and so on. Of course there may be 1mg of Senna here as well and the dosage is important. However, with many of the negative reviews on this product reporting nausea and bad side effects, some of these ingredients may really be there in dangerous quantities.
8. Alpha Lipoic Acid
Not a dangerous ingredient (ALA is good), but because we don't know the dosage we don't know it's beneficial at all. ALA possibly helps the body metabolize carbohydrates and therefore can aide in weight loss in some way. Just off the top of my head it would seem that any effective dose of ALA would probably be expensive to include in an otherwise useless product, so the dosage here is probably tiny.
So there you have it! 600+ mg of unknown quantities of mostly useless and possibly dangerous ingredients. Ridiculous that a company is even allowed to produce such a product and sell it for human consumption. Not only are you spending money on a useless product, but you possibly will make yourself very sick for at least one day and I bet you won't be able to get your money back.
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