MacroLean

It is being toasted as the #1 Diet Pill of 2011, but we have our doubts. What is it that makes MacroLean such a great diet supplement?

What’s In It?

To achieve their goals of losing fat and tightening skin, MacroLean uses the following ingredients:

Chickweed Herb comes from far out in homeopathic field. It speeds up metabolic rates and is reported to be great for lots of stuff. The downside is that none of it is proven; it could just as easily do nothing. Safflower Petals are known to suppress appetite, and they make an appearance in MacroLean, as does Burdock Root and Parsley Root which are supposed to do everything from flushing your system to preventing kidney stones and rheumatism. Good old Vitamin C is featured as well. Since humans don’t produce Vitamin C, it’s extremely important that it is featured prominently in our diet. Vitamin C also plays a big part in keeping skin tight and not saggy. Bladder Wrack sounds bad, but its actually just kelp. It gets the thyroid gland up and going.

There are half a dozen other ingredients in MacroLean, including Echinacea, Black Walnut Hulls, Licorice Root, Fennel Seed, Papaya Leaf, and Hawthorn Berries. Echinacea is probably the most well known; it is supposed to be very good for increasing immunity and it reputed as the best antibiotic found outside a lab.

Our Thoughts
Despite MacroLean’s claims, none of these ingredients are proven to burn fat or aid in weight loss. Their list of ingredients looks like a snowstorm, with lots of asterisks denoting each statement that has not been approved by the FDA. Now, it does have Vitamin C in it, which we know is good for you. All in all, though, MacroLean doesn’t impress us. We recommend looking elsewhere for a dietary supplement, preferably one with some clinical research behind it.