The FDA is recently investigating ephedrine
and from what I've seen, I'm guessing all ephedrine based fat
burners will be taken off the market in the near future. In fact,
Hydorxycut has just released their newly formulated Hydroxycut
without ephedrine, and no longer makes the old, ephedrine
based version.
I receive ALOT of emails from people sharing
their experiences with fat burners with me, although there are
alot of success stories, however, I feel it's important to share
this tragic ordeal for a caring father. Here's what he wrote:
This is Sara Michelle
Lyons, aka, Sara Smile, born December 29, 1985. Sara had several
'boyfriends' who had convinced her that she was overweight,
and the one
she cared for most even bought her fat burners, i.e., Metabolite
and Stacker 3 to take, or he would dump her.
Sara secretly took
these products, as directed, for several months. She complained
to me that her back hurt, and it burned when she urinated. I
brought her to the emergency room, had her blood and urine tested
and had X-rays done. Everything came back normal.
One week later, she
collapsed at work and was admitted to the local ICU with pneumonia
and severe kidney infections. Her lab work showed that although
she had been eating regularly, her body was starving. The fat
burners she had been taking certainly more than did their job.
Three days later, after both of her lungs completely shut down,
she was put on a ventilator and shipped to a larger hospitals'
CCU.
I was told that she
had vegetation (infection) on her heart, her blood had stopped
clotting normally, her kidneys, liver, spleen and heart had
blood clots on them. Her hands and feet turned black and withered,
from the blood clots that formed there. She continued to run
temperatures in excess of 104 degrees.
The doctors told me
that this beautiful, intelligent child with an IQ of 142 now
had blood clots throughout her entire brain, rendering her brain
dead. Sara died at 7:15 pm, Saturday, February 22, 2003, after
fighting the effects of ephedrine for 27 days. The doctors said
that all of the above problems were classic side effects from
ephedrine, one of the ingredients in fat burners, and that each
month in their CCU unit alone, they saw on average of 15 patients
with similar symptoms, all related to the use of fat burners
containing ephedrine.
I certainly hope that after reading this, you
- as a user of an ephedrine based fat burner, or a potential user
- will consider twice before diving in head on. And if you do
decide to use a fat burner, make sure to fully understand the
possible side effects and health risks. And my best advice for
any fat burner user is to take only 1/2 doses for the first week.
If you feel fine, then take the recommended dose, and if you're
not feeling too well, then stop - its not worth risking your health
to lose a few pounds.
Learn
more about ephedrine here.
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