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ZIPPER INGREDIENTS:

Zipper is a natural mixture of herbs, vitamins, minerals and  amino acids:

Vitamin-C: Used for increasing immunity, preventing wrinkles, lowering high blood pressure, improving physical performance and strength, and reducing fatigue and stress.

Thiamin: Anti-stress vitamin, strengthen the immune system, needed for energy metabolism and proper function of the nervous system. Thiamin (vitamin B1) helps the body's cells change carbohydrates into energy. The main role of carbohydrates is to provide energy for the body, especially the brain and the nervous system.

Niacin: Niacin is a necessary part of the cycle in which the body breaks down carbohydrates, fats, and proteins and converts them into energy. Niacin also plays a role in the production of certain hormones in the adrenal glands and in helping the liver remove harmful chemicals from the body. Niacin is also needed for proper digestion, used in hormone synthesis, and decrease cholesterol.

Riboflavin:   Benefits are increasing energy levels, boosting immune system function, maintaining healthy hair, skin, mucous membranes, and nails, slowing aging, boosting athletic performance and promoting healthy reproductive function.  

Vitamin B-6: Needed for cell growth, involved in serotonin and norepinephrine synthesis. Vitamin B6 is also involved at several steps in the metabolism of carbohydrates. In particular, the enzyme that pulls carbohydrates out of storage in the cell (in the form of a molecule called glycogen) requires vitamin B6 for its activity.

Vitamin B-12: Needed for proteins building in the body, red blood cell synthesis, and healthy nervous system. Vitamin B12 also does help contribute to weight loss though by helping metabolize protein and fat. When protein and fat are metabolized, it produces energy and having energy helps people lose weight.

Folic Acid: Folic acid is involved in every bodily function that requires cell division. Folic acid works in conjunction with Vitamin B12 and Vitamin C to help the body digest and use proteins. Taking a folic acid supplement will ensure that protein is metabolized properly, which will help your body maintain a stable insulin level. Keeping a consistent insulin level means that your body will immediately burn the fat it gets from the foods you eat instead of storing it.

Vitamin D: Promotes the absorption of calcium, and recent research revealed the importance of vitamin-D in protecting against a host of health problems.

Calcium: Calcium helps your body build strong bones, send and receive nerve signals, squeeze and relax muscles, keeping normal heartbeat, and releasing hormones.

Chromium: Needed for moving blood sugars from bloodstream to cells, to be used as energy and to convert fats, carbohydrates, and proteins into energy. It appears to be directly involved in carbohydrate, fat, and protein metabolism. Improvement of impaired carbohydrate metabolism by chromium(III) in malnourished infants.

Magnesium: Is important in more than 300 chemical reactions that keep the body working properly. Also needed to increase energy and endurance.

Zinc: Needed for tissue growth and repair, boosting the immune system, high blood pressure, muscle cramps, and for improving performance and strength.

Selenium: Very important anti-oxidant, help reduce damaging effect of free radicals, decrease cholesterol, and help in thyroid gland problems.

L-Carnitine: L-carnitine is an amino acid (a building block for proteins) that is naturally produced in the body. It improves athletic ability, increases muscle mass, reduces physical and mental fatigue and decreases fat mass.

L-Methionine: Your body uses methionine to make the substance called Creatine, another type of amino acid. Methionine also contains sulfur, which your body uses to promote healthy growth and metabolism. Another compound that your body makes from methionine is called s-adenosylmethionine or “SAMe,” which has several important functions in your body. SAMe helps to support the normal function of your immune system, neurotransmitters like dopamine, serotonin and melatonin, and your body’s cell membranes.

L-Leucine: Leucine is an essential amino acid, and it cannot be synthesized by the human body. It is one of the three branch-chained amino acids. Leucine slows muscle degradation by facilitating the creation of muscle proteins. Leucine is used by the liver, body fat, and muscle. Leucine increases energy and endurance. It also plays an important role in the synthesis of hemoglobin. Leucine helps maintain proper blood sugar and plays a role in human growth hormone synthesis.

Green Tea Leaf Extract: Used to increase mental alertness, decrease high levels of fat. Clinical studies suggest that green tea extract may boost metabolism and help burn fat. One study found that the combination of green tea and caffeine improved weight loss and maintenance in people who were overweight and moderately obese. Some researchers think that substances in green tea known as catechins are responsible for the herb's fat-burning effect. Researchers think the health-giving properties of green tea are mostly due to polyphenols, chemicals with potent antioxidant properties. In fact, the antioxidant effects of polyphenols seem to be greater than vitamin C.

Green Coffe Extract: Contains chlorogenic acid used in weight loss diet plans. The chlorogenic acid in these unroasted coffee beans can do wonders for the waistline; boosting metabolism, curbing hunger and appetite, controlling blood sugar, targeting existing fat stores and affecting how the body handles sugar and metabolism.

Guarana Seed Extract: Used for weight loss, to enhance athletic performance and reduce fatigue. The active ingredient in guarana was formerly called guaranine (tetramethylxanthine), but was later found to be caffeine. Guarana has one of the highest caffeine contents of all plants (up to 7%). Caffeine has been used as a weight loss agent due to its thermogenic effects. Caffeine may also have positive effects on mood, and may increase alertness and feelings of well-being.

White Kidney Been Extract: Starch blocker, used to block enzyme needed for carbohydrates absorption, sparing you from carbohydrates calories. White bean extract can prevent alpha-amylase (an enzyme that occurs naturally in the body) from breaking down carbohydrates into glucose (sugar). By slowing up alpha-amylase activity, proponents suggest, white bean extract leaves behind less glucose for the body to turn into fat.

Cissus Quadrangularis: Cissus quadrangularis is a succulent vine from Africa and Asia. It is one of the most commonly used medicinal plants in Thailand, and is also used in traditional African and Ayurvedic medicine. All parts of the plant are used.

A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled design including 123 overweight persons, concluded that Cissus quadrangularis formulation appears to be useful in the management of weight loss and metabolic syndrome. (Julius Oben et. al.; Lipids Health Dis. 2006; 5: 24.)

African Mango: Native to west africa. Its Fiber content help reduces appetite. The fruit naturally increases metabolism. A small double-blind placebo-controlled study published in 2005 demonstrated that gabonensis resulted in greater weight-loss and improved blood-test results in obese human volunteers when compared with a placebo. According to the study, significant reductions took place in weight, waist circumference, hip circumference, and systolic blood pressure in subjects taking the Irvingia compared with the placebo. Despite overall weight-loss in this study there was not a significant reduction in body-fat percentage. This indicates that weight was lost from both adipose tissue and from lean body-mass and that these losses were proportionate to original body compositions.

Judith L Ngondi et. al. reported on a longer clinical trial published in 2009 (Lipids Health Dis. 2009; 8: 7. ) that Irvingia gabonensis, significantly reduces body weight and improves metabolic parameters in overweight humans.

Another study, published in 2008, demonstrated that Irvingia gabonesis enhanced the weight-reducing effects of Cissus quadrangularis

Cinnamon: Cinnamon is actually the inner bark of the cinnamon tree and is traditionally used as a spice and a medicine. Some encouraging research shows that cinnamon might help improve many of the signs of metabolic syndrome and Type 2 diabetes, including excess abdominal fat, mainly by improving blood glucose regulation. Excess blood glucose and insulin resistance means that cells are deprived of glucose for energy. Glucose, then, would get stored, mainly as abdominal fat.

Ginseng Root: Slow-growing perennial plants with fleshy roots, belonging to the genus Panax of the family Araliaceae. Ginseng is found in North America and in eastern Asia (mostly Korea, northeast China, Bhutan, eastern Siberia), typically in cooler climates. Ginseng is characterized by the presence of ginsenosides. Folk medicine attributes various benefits to oral use of American ginseng and Asian ginseng (P. ginseng) roots, including roles as an aphrodisiac, stimulant, type II diabetes treatment, or cure for sexual dysfunction in men.

Yerba Mate Extract: Yerba mate, Ilex paraguariensis, begins as a shrub and then matures to a tree and can grow up to 15 meters (49 ft.) tall. The leaves are evergreen, 7–11 cm long and 3–5.5 cm wide, with a serrated margin. The leaves contain caffeine (known in some parts of the world as mateine) and also contains related xanthine alkaloids and are harvested commercially. Yerba does contain polyphenols, which may benefit the immune system, relieve allergies, reduce the risk of diabetes and hypoglycemia, contain compounds that, when extracted from green tea burns more calories, acts as an appetite suppressant and weight loss tool, increases mental energy and focus, improves mood, and promotes a deeper sleep, however sleep may be affected in people who are sensitive to caffeine.