Caffeine pill - Can a caffeine diet pill help you lose weight?

Caffeine is a xanthine alkaloid compound that acts as a psychoactive stimulant in humans. As if drinking coffee was not enough to ingest your daily caffeine need, caffeine in pill form is sold by a number of companies. Caffeine pills are sometimes advertised as being "as safe as coffee" but unlike coffee one can easy overdose on caffeine by taking too many caffeine pills. Those who take too many caffeine pills are likely to have side effects and feel anxiety, restlessness, sweating, rapid heart beat, and other unpleasant feeling.
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   Others take caffeine pills as a diet aid not realizing that more effective products are available. If you would like to eat less with the help of a natural, safe diet pill, consider Diet Rx pill, formulated by a medical doctor.

Diet Rx without caffeine pill stimulant
All Natural Appetite Suppressant without caffeine. You can have a cup or two a day of coffee when you take Diet Rx. We don't suggest taking a caffeine pill that has more than 200 mg of caffeine a day if you are taking more than 2 capsules of Diet Rx.

Benefits of Diet Rx *
Decreases appetite so you eat less
Helps you maintain healthy blood sugar levels
Helps you maintain healthy cholesterol and lipid levels
Provides a variety of antioxidant from two dozen herbs and nutrients
Provides healthy fiber
Improves energy
Balances mood
Improves mental concentration and focus
Improves will power and choice of food selection

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High Quality products formulated by a medical doctor
Consider highly popular all natural products formulated by a world famous medical doctor, Ray Sahelian, M.D. These include Mind Power Rx for better mental focus, concentration, and mood; Diet Rx which helps you eat less; Good Night Rx for better sleep; Eyesight Rx for better vision; MultiVit Rx a daily comprehensive multivitamin for more energy and vitality; Joint Power Rx for healthy joints; Prostate Power Rx for a healthy prostate gland; Passion Rx for sexual enhancement in men and women; and Veg Rx with Coq10 which supplies the missing nutrients in a vegetarian diet. None of these dietary supplement products have added caffeine.

Source of caffeine
Caffeine is found in varying quantities in the beans, leaves, and fruit of many plants, where it acts as a natural pesticide that paralyzes and kills certain insects feeding on the plants.

Caffeine for humans
Caffeine is most commonly consumed by humans in infusions extracted from the beans of the coffee plant and the leaves of the tea bush, as well as from various foods and drinks containing products derived from the kola nut or from cacao. Other sources include yerba mate and guarana berries.

Caffeine pill side effects
Caffeine, the natural substance found in many foods and beverages including coffee, tea and chocolate, can cause symptoms that can vary widely from person to person. Excessive use of caffeine pills can have side effects, including those serious enough that can lead to emergency room visits. Some people, without realizing, may drink excessive amounts of coffee or tea, then use medications with caffeine, or ingest caffeine in the form a caffeine-enhanced beverage. Some may even take a caffeine pill dietary supplement. People using caffeine pills and supplements need to know that caffeine is a drug and it's overuse is potentially harmful, especially when it is mixed with other medications.
   Caffeine pill side effects include insomnia, palpitations, tremors, sweating, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, chest paints, and neurological symptoms. Caffeine pills are easily available, so some people may not consider them to be very dangerous. Like any medication, though, an overdose is potentially fatal.

If you are sensitive to caffeine, you may get the following symptoms and caffeine side effects even with drinking one cup of coffee: Rapid or increased heart rate; Frequent urination; Nausea and vomiting; Restlessness and insomnial  Anxiety and depression; Shakiness or tremors.

Caffeine pill in combination with other supplements for weight loss
Use of caffeine in combination with other supplements could lead to a modest weight loss.

Body fat loss achieved by stimulation of thermogenesis by a combination of bioactive food ingredients: a placebo-controlled, double-blind 8-week intervention in obese subjects.
Int J Obes (Lond). 2007 Jan;31(1):121-30. Belza A, Frandsen E, Kondrup J. Department of Human Nutrition, Centre for Advanced Food Studies, The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Frederiksberg C, Denmark.
A combination of tyrosine, capsaicin, catechines and caffeine may stimulate the sympathetic nervous system and promote satiety, lipolysis and thermogenesis. In total, 80 overweight-obese subjects underwent an initial 4-week hypocaloric diet. Those who lost >4% body weight were instructed to consume a hypocaloric diet and were randomized to receive either placebo or bioactive supplement in a double-blind, 8-week intervention. The bioactive supplement increased 4-h thermogenesis by 90 kJ more than placebo, and the effect was maintained after 8 weeks and accompanied by a slight reduction in fat mass. These bioactive components may support weight maintenance after a hypocaloric diet.

Caffeine pill products
There are hundreds of caffeine pill products on the market, here is an example of some of these products:

NoDoz caffeine pill - Each caplet contains: Caffeine (200 mg)
Stay-Awake
4 Ever Fit caffeine pill with 200 mg of caffeine
Natrol High caffeine pill with 200 mg of caffeine
Pep-Back Peak Performance Stimulant caffeine pill caplets with taurine has 200 mg of caffeine
Wakeups-
Quick-Pep -
Revive! -
Alert
Penguin Mints - caffeine pills as mint candy.
Pro-plus - UK brand caffeine pill 
Vivarin caffeine pills - "Vivarin is used for a safe, fast pick up anytime you feel drowsy and need to be alert. The caffeine in Vivarin is less irritating to your stomach than coffee, according to a government appointed panel of experts. The Active Ingredient in the caffeine pill is 200 mg. of Caffeine."

Caffeine in weight loss pills
Caffeine is commonly found in weight loss pills. Caffeine is also included in headache remedies such as Excedrin. When consumed in pill form, you will often ingest two to four times the amount of caffeine that is in most common beverages. These increased levels of caffeine may be helpful in weight loss but at a price. The side effects of caffeine pills are unpleasant and can be dangerous if misused.

Caffeine Content in Decaffeinated Coffee
Decaffeinated coffee is not caffeine free. Most often it has about a fifth to a tenth of the amount of caffeine in regular coffee. Decaffeinated coffee from many coffee shops contain caffeine averaging about 1 mg of caffeine per ounce of decaf coffee. In some people who are sensitive to caffeine and drink several cups a day, even moderate caffeine levels can increase heart rate, blood pressure, agitation and anxiety.
   A regular cup of coffee has from 85 to 100 milligrams of caffeine. In one study, most of the 10- to 12-ounce decafs tested had less than five milligrams of caffeine. The decaffeinating process doesn’t eliminate 100 percent of the caffeine in coffee. On average 16-ounce servings of decaf has a caffeine content ranging from nine to 14 milligrams.

Caffeine pill study - influence on hormone levels
Metabolic and hormonal effects of caffeine: randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled crossover trial.
Metabolism. 2007 Dec;56(12):1694-8. Mackenzie T, Comi R, Sluss P, Keisari R, Manwar S, Kim J, Larson R, Baron JA.
Department of Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH 03755, USA; Department of Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH 03755, USA.
In short-term studies, caffeine has been shown to increase insulin levels, reduce insulin sensitivity, and increase cortisol levels. We evaluated the effect of oral intake of 200 mg of caffeine pill taken twice a day for 7 days on glucose metabolism, as well as on serum cortisol, dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), and androstenedione, and on nighttime salivary melatonin. There were no differences in glucose, DHEA, androstenedione, and melatonin between treatment periods. Daily caffeine intake reduces insulin sensitivity; the effect persists for at least a week and is evident up to 12 hours after administration.

Caffeine pill emails
Q. I am looking for a caffeine pill alternative. if you had to choose just one or the other of rhodiola or maca, is there one that is better suited as a caffeine pill alternative?
   A. Most people would choose maca herb, but we have many people who swear by rhodiola herb, also.