Weight loss device and method

The intra-gastric weight loss system apparatus and method of the present invention includes an intra-gastric elastomeric rubber balloon with self-sealing fill valve, to be placed and retrieved without surgery. As a benign space-occupying device, it will decrease gastric capacity to the point that saiety (the feeling of fullness) will occur after very little food has been consumed. Thus, the advantages of gastric and intestinal by-pass surgery will be realized, without surgery and the many resulting complications thereof. The elastomeric balloon is inflated with a liquid, preferably a saline solution containing an X-ray contrast media. The balloon is placed in a person's stomach by passing a naso-gastric tube through the mouth. The N-G tube has a previously placed nylon pull string through the lumen and back up the exterior. After this, a metal stylette is run down the lumen to very near the end of the N-G tube. The rolled up balloon with fill tube attached is inserted into a rubber finger cot attached to the pull string. By pulling the string the balloon containing finger cot is drawn down into the stomach. After placement in the stomach the stylette is removed and the balloon is inflated with liquid. Inflation causes the rubber finger cot to roll up and remove itself. Then the fill tube is withdrawn and the pull string with the finger cot attached is withdrawn. The balloon is now free-floating in the person's stomach without any tube attached. Regular check-ups, administration of food supplements, etc., follow thereafter. When the desired weight loss has been achieved the balloon can be easily deflated, and passed in normal fashion, or removed by use of a gastroscope and snaring of an attached withdrawal loop on the balloon.

Methods for inducing weight loss in a human with materials derived from Citrus varieties

Materials derived from Citrus plants can be administered orally to humans for the purpose of producing or maintaining weight loss as well as improving the person's physical performance and increasing the person's lean muscle mass. The Citrus materials include those portions of the plant that are normally considered waster or inedible, such as the leaves, peel and immature, unripe fruit. The materials contain as least one of the alkaloids from the group consisting of synephrine, hordenine, octopamine, tyramine and N-methylamine. Two species, Citrus aurantium and Citrus reticulata, are particularly useful. The materials can be administered in their natural form or as extracts, and can be administered in various ways including capsules and tablets. The Citrus materials may also be used as a tea. For weight loss and weight control, the materials can be administered concurrently with caloric restriction or in the absence of caloric restriction. The materials may also be administered for the purpose of increasing muscle mass concurrently with a high protein diet as well as with an exercise program.

Weight loss composition containing green tea, hydroxycitric acid, 5-hydroxytryptophan, glucomannan, picolinate and lactobacillus

A powerful formulation for weight loss containing green tea extract, hydroxycitric acid, 5-hydroxytryptophan, glucomannan, chromium picolinate, and Lactobacillus acidophilus is disclosed. The formulation boasts metabolic rates, suppresses appetite and helps burn fat.