In a new episode of his famous show, Dr. Oz – who who follows me knows to be at the center of my personal “demystification”, having often recommended (he who is a doctor) supplements that are harmful to health and useless for weight loss – he talked about the genetic causes of extra pounds, that is, that people are fat or thin due to genetic factors , they have a more or less fast metabolism because they were born like this, and this obviously explains the undeniable luck of the thin friend who eats like an ox but remains the size of a fasting goldfinch, not even a normal goldfinch. And it also explains the undeniable luck of my husband, able to eat a kilo of ice cream in two panettone for a snack. Understand that living every day alongside a man who can take out a lasagna and lose two pounds is stressful. But back to Dr. Oz. So who is genetically unlucky… ahem, genetically “programmed” to be fat will remain so forever? But no, not even Dr. Oz can say certain nonsense.

And in fact, diet and exercise correct this terrible tendency for most of us to gain weight by drinking a glass of water . But could we have finished an episode without talking about any product to buy? No, and in fact also in this case we speak of L-arginine to increase the fat burning effect of diet and exercise.
L – arginine is an amino acid , with few side effects, which has a corroborating effect on the body and improves physical performance : I took it for about a month, when, due to work stress, I was not sleeping at all and I was always very tired. I would NEVER take it for weight loss alone, given that, by “accelerating” everything, L-arginine makes in my opinion, and following my direct experience, even more active, more aggressive, more nervous. Furthermore, I would strongly advise against it for those who do not exercise, because arginine in theory stimulates growth hormone and muscle hypertrophy: I say in theory because the studies are conflicting. However, the effectiveness of arginine (which we already synthesize ourselves) has when we take it orally is not clear