First, what's the point?
You spend between 30 and 50% of your time sleeping, why not try and make use of that time to achieve your goals. Also, these products usually include sleep aids, which is a big problem in our current world...getting enough sleep. If you are deprived of sleep many things happen, you are more stressed and you release more cortisol which causes you to collect fat easier. More sleeps means more energy the next day and more opportunity to train and lead an active and healthful life where you will burn more calories so don't discount the need to improve sleep.
Second, what's in them?
Obviously these PM fat burner products cannot rely on energy or thermogenics to do their work so they must be creative in the design of the ingredients in order to improve your metabolism or burn fat. Most of these fat burners work with controlling your appetite (to curb late night craving or fridge runs at 3am) with ingredients like hoodia, white kidney bean and or chromium (to curb sugar cravings). Then after that they rely exclusively on ingredients trying to improve lipolysis. Lipolysis is the process of using fat for energy...so you will see supplements with CLA, L-Carnitine (or some derivative), Carnosine, and Guggelsterones to name a few. All these are plant based and they try to soak up stored fat and make it available to burn as fuel over night.
Finally, the sleep aid usually comes in the natural forms of melatonin, 5-HTP (trytophan) and relaxants like chamomile and valerian root. These are all safe, but the first time you take products with sleep-aids should always be on a night when you can sleep in the next day to gauge your body's own response to the ingredients/compounds.
Well, do they work?Simply put, YES, but they do not work as fast as daytime fat burners and certainly not as well as daytime burners combined with proper diet and exercise regimens. But they do work, so be patient. IN addition, these products are great for people who are trying to lose that last few inches or pounds of fat without sacrificing any of that hard earn lean muscle or lean tissue you have created in the gym and through proper protein supplementation.
In the store we have:
Noxitropin PM
Nite-Burn
and a few other night-time supplements designed to help you get leaner!
Come see us or email today and we will help figure out the best plan and use of supplements for you!
Til next time,
Mikie
