Chromium Picolinate Weight Loss

Chromium picolinate is a natural trace mineral. It's a combination of picolinic acid and chromium. It can be found in many common foods such as bread and meats. When you take chromium picolinate as a supplement, you would be getting much more of the mineral. The recommended daily dosage of chromium is 130 mcg. Chromium can help you lose weight and build lean muscle. Here are the ways chromium can help with weight loss:

• Helps digest glucose and fat
• Increases sensitivity to insulin
• Suppresses appetite
• Inhibits fat cell formation
• Helps create lean muscle

If you eat plenty of processed foods, you are not getting enough chromium picolinate in your diet. You should be taking a supplement. Chromium is even included in most multi-vitamins because it is important for our bodies to have.

Chromium helps to break down glucose and fat after our meals. This will prevent fat formation and fat storage in our bodies. It's also helps with converting protein into lean muscle. Especially if you are working out, chromium will be a great help to you. It can help you create muscle faster. Chromium also suppresses the appetite.

Whether chromium helps or not is still under review. Some studies claim that chromium helped only those with diabetes and showed no effects for those who don't have diabetes.

Many people at the Swanson Vitamins website review this product with only positive things to say, including it gives added energy and has helped with weight loss. One woman states it suppressed her appetite greatly and helped her with losing 45 lbs over the course of a year. You can read these reviews (and yes they are by real customers because a few are negative) here.

I have been taking chromium, but I also take plenty of supplements. In my opinion, all of these people can't be wrong about chromium picolinate. Either way, take your daily vitamin and most likely you will get adequate chromium.