African Mango or IRVINGIA GABONENSIS

Ok so I may be a bit late to the party, but why stop the party. The reason I bring this up is because Karla sent me an email and in it was an article on this African Mango and how it can help weight loss, clearly it was a joke on her part. However, looking throughout the vast depths of the internet not many other websites are taking it as a joke, they see it as the next big thing, think Hoodia, or acai berry. There are a couple of things I have against this,
1. it was showed on Dr Oz's show, and for all of you who dont know, I cannot stand that show and his charlatan ways.
2. There are a few sites ive seen spouting off information about how the seeds can help with leptin production, well actually help to stop producing it.
3. It has been proven by a few studies, and yes that all and well, however, it was funded in Cameroon. Can you guess where the majority of African Mango's are? Ill give you a hint, its underlined, bolded, italicised, and rhymes with gameroon. I dont know about you, but that seems a little too convienient to me. Not to mention in the study they let the participants track their own calories. Why would they use such a HIGHLY INACCURATE account of the MOST IMPORTANT factor of weight loss.

To further explain #2 a little better for those of you who dont know how leptin works, Ill give a very very brief description of what it is and its role.

Leptin, is a hormone that is sort of like a thermostat for fat. It is produced by the cells but in a much larger amount from fat cells. So the more fat you have, the more leptin you have (under non diet circumstances). The reason for this is to let the leptin receptors in the brain pick up those signals in order to tell how much energy (aka fat) the body has stored, this was an adaptive component for survival during the days we didnt have easy access to tons of calories. So as you lose fat the less leptin your body will produce, interestingly enough when you first stop dieting your body will drop its leptin levels by 50% or so, showing how much you body loves your fat. So your brain begins to think it is losing fat so it wants you to eat more so making you hungrier, as well as making many many other hormones in the body fluctuate.

Rough summary: Normal levels of Leptin good
Low levels bad.

thus getting back to topic, why would a site wanting to sell this product say the seeds do exactly the opposite of what they want it to do? I dont think they were meaning to deceive you but it certainly does speak on behalf of their credibility.

Moral of the story, dont go ahead and believe everything you hear and see. Just because it was proved in a study doesnt mean its true, you have to actually look at the details, sometimes details do matter.