Does Forskolin Work?

Today I am talking about a supplement that has been at the center of much controversy following the great hype that Dr. Oz made of it, a promotion for which it ended up in court : forskolin, or forskolin or even forscolin.
To tell the truth, the court did not find Dr. Oz guilty only of having misleading advertising only on forskolin, but also on other supplements, from green coffee to raspberry ketone to garcinia.
What do all of these supplements have in common ? Simple, they are not miraculous and they do not lose weight, not substantially. Yet, you may have heard of the effectiveness of forskolin, a natural extract from the Coleus forskohlii plant, similar to a mint. It is said that it melts abdominal fat, for example, and that in the right concentrations it guarantees a noticeable weight loss.

Alas, even the case of forskolin or forskolin or whatever you want to call it we risk wasting money unnecessarily. As with Garcinia, studies have been done on human samples after animal ones: but too thorough to speak of a miracle of weight loss. I’ll be more specific. The most mentioned studies are two: one in a sample of 15 overweight men established that in doses of 250 mg of titrated 10% forskolin extract twice a day, the sample had lost fat mass without losing weight, gaining little lean mass. and skeletal density. In three months, the group taking forskolin lost approximately 4 kilos of average fat mass: consider that a diet is more effective.
According to experts, forskolin promoted lipolysis, but an increase in free testosterone was also noted.

This (and previous studies) would also explain why forskolin is used as a sports supplement.
Another study, on a female sample , found no change in the body composition of the 23 overweight participants , but a slight tendency to gain weight.

Could forskolin be more effective in men than in women? Yes, that may be. But given the small number of participants, from here to talk about the miracle of weight loss we pass.
Are there any health effects of forskolin? Well yes. Forskolin is a natural vasodilator, this means that at the right concentrations, or 500 mg of pure forskolin, it is useful in hypertensive subjects. And it is also useful in people suffering from high triglycerides, precisely because it would act on fatty acids.

So if we are hypertensive and suffer from high triglycerides, aside from leaving the bottle in the pantry and quitting smoking, and eating a balanced, low-calorie diet, forskolin can actually help us improve blood pressure and triglycerides. It may also be that combined with a low-calorie diet it allows us to drop an extra kilo a month, but in short, that’s what it is about.
And beware: it is not without side effects, especially gastrointestinal.