Do Diet Patches Really Work?  

Throughout the years, since it’s creation, there has been a lot of controversy whether or not diet patches help in losing weight. The idea is very simple with great potential results: simply wear the patch on your body and see that belly go down. Diet patch manufacturers claim that this system works by burning body fat without the need of any diet regimen or exercise, but does it really work? Many people, unhappy about their appearance and desperately looking for a quick weight problem fix, get a diet patch as a solution.

Diet patches are sort of band-aids that stick on the skin and will provide weight loss assistance. The way diet patches work, supposedly, is that they have active ingredients in them which penetrate into the body to suppress the appetite and increase the metabolism.   The method is similar to oral appetite suppressor diet pills.

They claim that Fucus Vesiculosus is the main active ingredient that helps with the appetite control. Fucus Vesiculosus, which is also known as bladder wrack, is a brown algae found on the oceans.   Particularly, bladder wracks are found in the coasts of the North Sea,   the Atlantic,   the Western Baltic Sea, and the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

Fucus Vesiculosus was the original source of iodine and was used in the 1800s to treat goiter, an iodine deficiency disease.   In the 1860s it was claimed that this type of seaweed could help with obesity by stimulating the thyroid gland to speed up the metabolic rate.   Since then, focus vesiculosus has been used for a number of diet supplements.

What are the risks of using diet patches?  Because diet patches use focus vesiculosus, which contains iodine, careful should be taken because it may alter insulin levels and cause heart palpitations.  Therefore, people with certain medical conditions, such as diabetes or heart problems should avoid using the patches.