Yohimbe?

[Guest guest]

I read this interview with Lyle Mc from The Facts about Fitness website.

http://thefactsaboutfitness.com/research/lyle_part_two.htm

Q. Are there any tricks you have for women who want to lose the last bit of

'stubborn' fat? Do they need to do things significantly differently to men?

A. Women's hip and thigh fat has been a perennial problem as it tends to be

the most stubborn of all bodyfat to lose. Men's abdominal fat, although many men

will disagree with me here, is relatively easy: men mainly need to be more

patient and the abdominal fat will come off.

In contrast, hip and thigh fat is very difficult to mobilize and burn off.

This is why you get women with absolutely ripped upper bodies who are still

carrying significant fat in their lower bodies.

The reason is clearly evolutionary, women's hip and thigh fat exists to

support pregnancy and milk production. Quite in fact, during lactation, women's

hip and thigh fat becomes the easiest to mobilize but I haven't figured out a

good way to take advantage of this...yet.

There are a number of reasons for the stubbornness of women's body fat, not

the least of which is poor blood flow. If a woman feels her hip and thigh fat,

she'll tend to notice that it's colder than other parts of her body; this is due

to poor blood flow.

It turns out that aerobic activity can overcome this limitation; women tend to

need more cardio than men to come in ripped (many men can get ripped on nothing

but lifting and calorie restriction). But even regular cardio doesn't solve the

problem.

Other reasons include the type of fat that is stored there and the fact that

stubborn body fat is more resistant to fat mobilizing stimuli.

Dan Duchaine was probably the first to come up with a solution and that was

oral yohimbe. Falsely touted as a testosterone booster, yohimbe blocks the

receptor on fat cells (called an alpha-adrenoreceptor) that makes fat

mobilization so difficult. Regular use of oral yohimbe with caffeine prior to

morning fasted cardio can have a noticeable effect on women's fat loss.

As I discuss in the Ultimate Diet 2.0, it turns out that low-carbohydrate

diets (20% or less calories from carbohydrate for 3-4 days) tends to

automatically inhibit those same alpha-adrenoreceptors. The third and fourth day

of the UD2 are good for mobilizing and burning off stubborn body fat.

Has anyone tried Yohimbe? Just curious. I tend to think that if it worked so

great everyone would be talking about it!

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