HCA Supplementation improves wound healing and immunomodulation/immunoregulation, including improving depressed immune function and also reducing excessive immune activity such as is found in elevated humoral immunity linked to allergies and autoimmune diseases. The benefits of HCA are especially pronounced with the use of the preferred salt of the acid, potassium hydroxycitrate, and may be further potentiated by the use of a controlled-release form of the compound.
A method for preventing and or reducing the symptoms of insulin resistance and a related syndrome in persons comprises identifying persons having or at risk for having such symptoms, and administering to them an effective amount of a composition comprising niacin-bound chromium that prevents or reduces the symptoms. Compositions incorporating niacin-bound chromium and additional compounds also are disclosed that are particularly effective in synergistically preventing or reducing these symptoms.
Methods for promoting healthy body weight and improving a variety of related physiological factors, including serum serotonin levels, serum leptin levels, fat oxidation, cholesterol levels, and body mass index, in persons or other mammals, include administering to those persons or other mammals effective amounts of hydroxycitric acid or a combination of hydroxycitric acid, chromium and gymnemic acid, which work synergistically to further to promote healthy body weight and improve these physiological factors.
