Do lycopene and lutein pills cause weight loss?

Answer 1

Probably yes. Fucoxanthin is the carotenoid [from pills] that is most strongly correlated with weight loss. Another marine carotenoid [from pills], astaxanthin, is also strongly correlated with weight loss but not quite as strongly as fucoxanthin. Lutein and lycopene [from foods] are definitely correlated with weight loss very, very strongly. However, most of that weight reducing tendency derives from the fact that vegetable eaters and fish eaters tend to lose weight while meat eaters, dairy food eaters, processed/refined food eaters, and starchy/sugary food eaters tend to gain weight. In one study, increased bodily levels of lutein were correlated to weight loss but the researchers hypothesized that when the body fat melted away, lutein was released into the blood from the body fat.

In my opinion, the other possibility is that all beneficial phytochemicals/antioxidants help to cause weight loss. That's why vegetable eaters lose weight and nut eaters don't gain weight, even though nuts are extremely high in calories.

Although the fat in nuts without the beneficial phytonutrients in nuts would cause weight gain, the fat in fish and seafood appears to cause weight loss. See Sources and Related Links for more information.

Fucoxanthin causes weight loss by making white fat behave more like brown fat.

Bears survive during long hibernations by burning off their brown fat to stay warm. Humans contain mostly only white fat, which can't be burned away as easily as brown fat without exercise. If you would like to lose weight without any side effects, try swallowing fucoxanthin capsules. Unlike the polysaccharide, fucoidan, which prevents and treats cancer, the carotenoid, fucoxanthin, makes white fat burn away like brown fat to keep us warmer without exercise.

Astaxanthin, the strongest antioxidant among the carotenoids, causes weight loss too.

One of the best ways to lose weight is to eat mostly only fruits and vegetables that contain at least 89% water. Watermelons, which are rich in lycopene, contain 92% water. Tomatoes are also rich in lycopene and other beneficial phytochemicals and contain 94% water. Ruby red grapefruits are also rich in lycopene and contain 91% water.

Green tea, white tea, rooibos tea, honeybush tea, olive leaf tea, onion tea, and fenugreek tea are more than 99% water and rich in many beneficial phytochemicals that will cause weight loss.

Beef, pork, lamb, eggs, chicken, turkey, many dairy foods, cakes, pastries, sweets, and refined starches are very high in calories, very low in percentage water content, extremely low in fiber, extremely low in antioxidants, and very high in pro-oxidants that cause weight gain such as heme iron, alkanals, alkanels, dietary advanced glycation endproducts, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, heterocyclic amines, and nitrosamines.

Fat free plain yogurt causes weight loss by introducing good bacteria into our intestines. Fat free milk doesn't cause weight gain because it speeds up intestinal transit time and also feeds the existing good bacteria. Psyllium husk and psyllium husk capsules contain mostly only soluble fiber and cause weight loss by speeding up intestinal transit time, feeding the existing good bacteria, increasing fecal volume, softening hard stools, and introducing antioxidants into our intestines. Many of the most beneficial phytochemicals in plants are contained in both the soluble fiber and insoluble fiber.

If you would prefer to risk the side effects of prescription drugs to lose weight, remember that the most expensive one (sibutramine) is the best.

DANGER: The quickest way to lose weight is to stop eating completely. Unfortunately, fasting for longer than 2 days will cause permanent damage to our bone density and permanently increase our risk of future bone fractures.

To minimize this damage, (1)drink green tea or white tea, (2)swallow a multivitamin pill daily [preferably without iron on most days; preferably with extra vitamin D daily], (3)swallow your favorite antioxidant pills, (4)swallow one 600mg calcium carbonate pill daily, (5)swallow a fish oil softgel daily - or - swallow a high phospholipid krill oil softgel daily, (6)swallow a vitamin K2/MK-7 capsule daily and swallow a soy isoflavone capsule daily and swallow soy protein daily -or- just eat the Japanese fermented soybean food called, "natto," daily, (7)eat plenty of green leafy vegetables, and (8)eat onions -or- drink onion tea. These 8 actions would prevent irreversible damage to our bone health during a prolonged fast.