Women specific diet pills have a few ingredients that other diet pills don’t.  These include ingredients that either promote hormone activity, or support hair, skin, nails, and other organs considered to enhance beauty.  Can these ingredients do what they claim?  It depends on what ingredients they choose to use.  Some of these ingredients have been clinically proven to do what they claim, while others rely on anecdotal evidence and may not perform the way they intend by the manufacturer.

Promote Hormone Activity

Ingredients such as Soy Isoflavones can look and act like estrogen in our bodies.  This could be helpful in minimizing PMS symptoms, or control acne.  However, our bodies are like chemistry labs, and not bank accounts.  When we include artificial hormones, or things that look like hormones, our body’s natural hormone secretion diminishes.  The basic functioning and stimulation of our hormones is tightly regulated.  In healthy individuals, excess hormones will either be unused, or production decreases so there is never excess.

However, if ingredients have been shown to increase our bodies natural ability to produce hormones, rather than looking and acting like hormones; it might have the right effect.  Wild Yam has been shown to have this effect.  The properties of wild yam have been shown to stimulate sex hormones like estrogen and progesterone.

Hormones are critical in fat loss, but is it Estrogen that is going to facilitate that edge?  The hormones in a women’s only pill may have an effect on sex drive, and maybe even increasing breast size, but fat loss?  This can get complicated, but stay with me here.  When we are low in estrogen, our body tries to produce estrogen.  Fat or adipose tissue actually produces estrogen.  So, when we need more estrogen, we like to store more fat to have that estrogen to draw from.  If there is plenty of estrogen in our body already, we don’t need to store fat to make some.  Estrogen production stimulated by herbs or foods may limit the amount of fat our body needs to store.

Progesterone is the other female hormone that can make or break a weight loss plan.  Low progesterone promotes water retention.  A fat burner that is pro-progesterone would limit a women carrying weight because of water.

Beauty Benefits

The ‘beauty’ benefits included in some female fat burners may work; it depends on the ingredients they use.  I’ve always understood the benefits of various vitamins and minerals to support hair, nails, and skin.  With a nutrition background, I this is the very foundation of what I teach.  The more we can get the B vitamins like biotin and riboflavin in our food, the stronger our nails and hair will be.  Anything in a women’s fat burner they are promoting besides vitamins to get better hair and skin, I would be skeptical about.

Beyond the hormone promoting and beauty benefits of a fat loss pill, the other ingredients should be consistent with non gender specific fat burning pills.  There should be ingredients that are clinically proven to be an appetite suppressant, metabolism booster, and an energy enhancer.  Common ingredients for these include, caffeine and synephrine.   Some women only weight loss pills have those hormone supporters, and beauty benefits, but leave out the truly critical component of boosting energy and decreasing appetite.

As with any dietary supplement or fat burner, you have to do your homework.  I do believe that women only fat burners have potential to be everything a woman wants.  Unfortunately there are many products on the market that just can’t deliver what they promise.  Currently there is a huge lawsuit on a specific women only fat burner from disgruntled customers that believed the hype of the product.  So, before you spend your hard earned money, check if the products ingredients have studies to back up their claims.  In addition, if non-gender fat burners don’t work for you, there is little chance a women specific fat burner will work for you.  It may help you to get gorgeous hair and nails, maybe even longer eyelashes, but you can get a good multi vitamin for that for a lot less money.  If fat burners work for you, you can get the added boost of the beauty enhancing additives.