PGX^® Helps You to Lose Weight

For almost everyone, the math behind weight loss is simple: your body has to burn more calories than it consumes. There are 3,500 calories in one pound of fat. If you burn 500 more calories than you consume each day, theoretically you will lose one pound a week. It is for this reason that all sensible diets focus on a combination of exercise and calorie reduction. PGX^® does not burn calories, but it can make eating fewer calories each day much easier for you, helping to correct your appetite and helping you decrease the size of your meals.  Correcting Your Appetite

Scientific research has now proven that there is a link between blood sugar and appetite. When blood sugar levels go up and down many times throughout the day, it can signal the brain to eat many times. 

Blood sugar is important for health. Everyone needs the right amount of glucose (sugar) in their blood to maintain energy and power bodily functions. In fact, too little blood sugar can be dangerous and the brain responds by creating hunger signals we recognize as appetite. By eating, the body restores its blood sugar to appropriate levels – at least until the next drop triggers hunger again.  

PGX^® helps correct appetite by supporting healthy blood sugar levels.  

The below graphs demonstrate the important role that blood sugar plays with regard to appetite. Figures 1 and 2 track the blood sugar levels of an overweight woman throughout the day, using a continuous glucose monitor - first without PGX® when she had a poorly controlled diet and no exercise, then with PGX® and diet and exercise. The "x" signifies how often her blood sugar levels dropped during the day. As the second graph shows, regular use of of PGX® smooths the spikes in blood sugar. Unlike many "diet" products that try to aim to suppress appetite, PGX® addresses appetite by addressing rises and falls in blood sugar.

Reducing Meal Portion Size

Another well-established approach to calorie reduction is smaller meal portions, and here again PGX^® can help! When taken with food and a glass of water, PGX absorbs the water and mixes with the food, gently expanding in your stomach to increase volume. This additional volume provides a pleasant feeling of fullness that helps you to feel satisfied with a smaller meal.

But, to truly remain satisfied as you eat less, you also need to feel full for a longer period of time. PGX, with its high-fiber composition, mixes with food to create a highly viscous fiber complex that reaches full viscosity 60-90 minutes after taking PGX with a meal. This gel matrix maintains its viscosity despite the influence of stomach acids, resulting in a slowed digestion process that helps keep you feeling full and satisfied longer after meals.

Research Results: Using PGX^® as a weight-loss aid has been assessed in weight loss programs conducted at the Canadian Centre for Functional Medicine in British Columbia. In each of these programs, participants received healthy eating guidelines and were encouraged to be more physically active, in addition to being asked to consume 5 grams of PGX^® two to three times per day. Over 14 weeks the people that took PGX^® lost between 4.93 and 20.55 lbs (2.24 and 9.34 kg) with an average of 12.74 lbs(5.79 kgs)¹.

The weight loss consistently experienced on the PGX^® program translates into a healthy weight loss of about one-half to 2 pounds per week over 12-14 weeks¹.

Read more about the science of PGX^®.