NOW Supplements, Phase 2® (White Kidney Bean Extract) 500 mg, Weight Management*, 120 Veg Capsules

This is my go to for reducing the carbs I take in daily. Adding treadmill exercise I have lost 20 pounds over the last 4 months. Safely and gradually reducing belly fat. At 66 that's no easy feat! This product is the only one I've found to reduce your carb intake by about half when taken 1 to 2 hours before a meal. I just found it again on Amazon at a great price! Only 2 tablet per day works for me along with a healthier diet. But if I'm going to eat a burger or my favorite pasta then I take it before 😉 Only this Now Phase 2 brand has work effectively for me. I've tried other brands, nope! Hope this helps 😀

I know there is a lot of debate about this product only being able to neutralize starches, but I suspect it works for other carbs as well (simple carbs). I did read the studies, and without providing all of the science behind digestion - all carbohydrates are broken down beginning with amylase (in the mouth). Since white kidney bean targets amylase, this is my reasoning behind it also working for simple carbohydrate and not just starch. However, there are some caveats, and I do not know what the upper limit for carbohydrate digestion would be. I follow a ketogenic diet, in which I choose to restrict my carbohydrate intake because I am carbohydrate sensitive, and really it's about having my body run a certain way, reducing cravings, etc. However, I work out 5 or 6 days a week, and sometimes decide to go outside of what I normally eat, like pizza, which is definitely not on my weekly menu!! In order to avoid a massive glucose spike, get a sympathetic response (i.e., rapid heart rate, etc), I take 4 of these + Heather's Tummy Tamers Peppermint Oil Capsules (to avoid digestive issues). I take it about a half hour before I enjoy a couple of slices of pizza in order to avoid the major glucose spike as well as the sympathetic response insulin seems to give me. If I didn't take these, I wouldn't be able to eat too many carbohydrates, because unfortunately for me, it doesn't take much for me to get an undesired response. The thing is, it works fine for a couple of slices for pizza, but if 2 hours later I have that piece of cheesecake, I will get a slight sympathetic response even if I take 4 more capsules. This is why I say that I have no idea what the upper limit is for inhibiting digestion of carbohydrate. Curiously enough, I will be back in ketosis by the next morning, even after 2 slices of pizza and a small slice of cheesecake. However, I don't do this often, so I am quite adapted to the way I already eat. I could experiment with more than 8 capsules, but I am not interested in the accompanying gastric distress - 8 is enough for one night. Obviously, I don't think one could eat carbs all day and just take these, nor would I think you would want to. Carbohydrate is not inherently "bad", and I don't avoid them because I think they are, but I am particularly sensitive to them. Plus, I lift heavy weights, so I tend to consume more protein anyway, and the way I set up my macros fits me perfectly. I have always known I was carb-sensitive, even when in med school, when my friend told me she thought it was all "in my head". Of course, one has to consider this if you aren't checking glucose regularly, but if I had never eliminated carbohydrate to begin with, I would have never known how bad the sensitivity actually was. These work well for what I need, but I also don't take them every day, nor every week - only when I decide to eat pizza for that high calorie day, or when we are out running errands and we stop to eat at our favorite restaurant. I hope this review helps someone...

I started using Phase II carb blockers about 12 or so years ago in conjunction with the Atkins diet. Judging from some reviews there seems to be some confusion. Carb blockers don't make you lose weight. If you are following a low carb diet and want to go off script and have pizza, pasta, potatoes etc. you normally wouldn't have on your diet, take the carb blocker before your meal and you won't blow your diet and possibly gain weight. If you're not following a low carb diet, these will not help you.

Doesn't taste so good, and kind of expensive for so little pills.

This controlled my appetite waaaay better than I thought it would! I started out by taking just 1 in the middle of the day, as 3 causes my belly to feel off. I’ll take 2 if I know I’ll have a big meal, but 1 feels safest for my tummy and I still get the benefits of what feels like controlled blood sugar and cravings. 10/10! I’ll be taking this for a while, since it’s so safe and actually works.

It is blocking carbs but there are two reasons why people are not seeing the weight loss: 1) Psychological use of this pill as a crutch. One takes the pill and then eats more carbs since they think that they have entered the "Free extra carbs" zone. Well it doesn't work that way. You either eat the same amount and take the pill so you can loose weight, or eat a BIT more and maintain the weight. 2) The undigested carbs makes bacteria in your large intestine do what they are designed to do...digest starches...but gas is a byproduct. So the more undigested starches that enter the large intestine the more bacteria is created (supply and demand), the more they digest it, the more gas is produced. Also, your body realizes that something is amiss, so more fluid is now required to pass this "foreign" matter. So what you get is bloat and fluid retention which leads to slight weight gain or weight maintenance. Now, since majority of fat cells are water, then all you see is your fat cells swell. Not with lipid but with water. In the end the weight stays the same...BUT BUT! If you followed #2 (ate less and took Phase 2) then even though your weight stays the same, you loose the adipose tissue. So you are "healthier" even though you can't see it. All you have to do is stop taking it for a week or two to actually notice the weight loss.

Now foods typically has some of the best prices you can find, along with "Swanson" products and "Vitacost". All 3 appear to be well controlled and no complaints as to efficiency or rather, potency of product sold. It's virtually impossible to give a review for an item like this since it takes a long time usually to feel effects, and if you're taking with anything else concurrently (like most usually to) it's almost impossible to assign benefit to individual items. That is why they do double blind controlled studies, which anyone should look up by typing "pubmed" at the end of a supplement name when doing a google search. This particular extract from beans is one of the few items of this kind which have some proven science behind it. It can give you some gas and bloating if you take too much though.....take care with quantity.

Yes! So Natrol Carb Intercept no longer carries phase II white kidney bean, and Natrol were nice enough to share with me the same ingredient trademark that NOW supplements also use. I am very happy with NOW.

便秘解消にもなってる気がして、炭水化物食べる前は必ず飲んでる！

“ダイエット効果がある”とは思いませんが、“な〜んんとなく炭水化物をブロックはしているのかなぁ…”と感じる程度。 このシリーズのキトサンとダブルで飲むことがあります。 下腹が張ってオナラが出ることがしばしばあり、食べたモノによるのかも知れませんがけっこう臭いです。 と言うことはダイエット効果は無いのかもしれないが、炭水化物はブロックしているんでしょうか… 専門医では無いから分かりませんけど《飲まないよりかマシだろ》という気分的な問題で飲んでます。 年齢的な事もあるため御守りみたいな感覚である程度は続けてみようかと思います。 なんでも言えることでしょうが、運動をしてナンボでしょう。

2ヶ月ほど使ってますが 目に見えて効果はないかと思われます

白インゲン豆抽出のファセオラミン。炭水化物多めの食事の前に。

これとガルシニアを併用すれば好き勝手食べても体重減っていきます。