There are no studies on life expectancy effects of almost anything including peanut butter, orange juice, and French fries.
One big argument for ECA safety is that you don’t have to take it continuously. Just figure out how many kilograms you want to lose, it’s most likely going to take 1-2 weeks per kg on ECA (assuming your eat mostly when hungry and just as much as needed to satisfy that, you can obviously drink 5 litres a day of sugared drinks a day even with zero appetite, and still be gaining weight). Unless you’re gaining weight very quickly on your normal diet (in which case you need to adjust that) you won’t have to repeat that in very long time, possibly ever.
The main effect of ECA is down-regulating your appetite—something there are very few known proven methods to do, fen-phen comes to mind, but it was removed from the market (completely misguidedly I’d say). ECA also seems to have some effects on fat and muscle metabolism, and some mild stimulating effects, but it’s not obvious from research that these are of much relevance to humans.
This is serious stuff, so if you have some heart condition or don’t think you can use it responsibly, don’t do it. But then the only other anti-obesity method with better research record is surgery.
There are no studies on life expectancy effects of almost anything including peanut butter, orange juice, and French fries.
One big argument for ECA safety is that you don’t have to take it continuously. Just figure out how many kilograms you want to lose, it’s most likely going to take 1-2 weeks per kg on ECA (assuming your eat mostly when hungry and just as much as needed to satisfy that, you can obviously drink 5 litres a day of sugared drinks a day even with zero appetite, and still be gaining weight). Unless you’re gaining weight very quickly on your normal diet (in which case you need to adjust that) you won’t have to repeat that in very long time, possibly ever.
The main effect of ECA is down-regulating your appetite—something there are very few known proven methods to do, fen-phen comes to mind, but it was removed from the market (completely misguidedly I’d say). ECA also seems to have some effects on fat and muscle metabolism, and some mild stimulating effects, but it’s not obvious from research that these are of much relevance to humans.
This is serious stuff, so if you have some heart condition or don’t think you can use it responsibly, don’t do it. But then the only other anti-obesity method with better research record is surgery.