The Garcinia Cambogia Desr plant is used for its appetite suppressant effects in food supplements. ANSES ALERTS ON THE RISKS OF SERVICE SUBSIRESIRESS, including acute hepatitis.
- Garcinia Cambogia Desr is a plant used in food loss food supplements.
- ANSES ALTERS on serious side effects: acute hepatitis have been diagnosed in people with no history.
- The organization strongly advises against the consumption of food supplements containing the Garcinia Cambogia Desr.
Food supplements to lose weight causing serious side effects. In a press release Released on March 5, ANSES alerts the risks associated with products containing extracts from Garcinia Cambogia Desr. “”Their consumption is at the origin of severe adverse effects, in particular acute hepatitis, including in people with no medical history “warns the organization.
Weight loss: What is Garcinia Cambogia Desr?
This plant, also called Malabar’s tamariner, is traditionally used in Asian cuisine. In recent years, she has been in the composition of appetite suppressant food supplements. “”Its weight loss properties are attributed to acid (-)-hydroxycitric (AHC) present in the pericarp of the fruit “indicates ANSES. On the records of food supplements, it is indicated that it “helps reduce fat storage ““can help reduce body weight ““can help control weight by reducing the amount of fat absorbed by food “ or that she “helps maintain the normal sugar and fat rate in the blood “.
What are the risks linked to this plant?
In 2019, ANSES received the reporting of a severe adverse effect, a deadly fulminant hepatitis, “likely to be linked to the consumption of the Slim Metabol food supplement® Marketed by the Italian company Zuccari“. This product contained Garcinia Cambogia Desr. Other cases of severe adverse effects were identified by ANSES, and it decided to launch an expertise for”Dressing the inventory of the undesirable effects caused by the consumption of food supplements based on Garcinia Cambogia Desr“. The agency made a”Global analysis of cases identified by various French, European and North American vigilance systems, supplemented by a literature review“.
ANSES has observed cases of liver, psychiatric, digestive (pancreatitis), cardiac and muscular (rhabdomyolysis). “”In the only French nutrivigilance system, 38 reports of adverse effects were declared between 2009 and March 2024“, She notes. They have been observed in people with history of psychiatric disorders, pancreatitis or hepatitis, or attacks of certain cardiometabolic diseases (diabetes, obesity, hypertension), and in people treated with known drugs to affect hepatic function, antiretroviral treatments or antidepressant treatments. “”However, severe effects have also been reported in consumers without any medical history“, alerts the agency.
Weight loss must be accompanied by a healthcare professional
It thus advises against the consumption of these supplements to the whole population, with or without medical history. “”All food supplements containing Garcinia Cambogia Desr. are intended for weight loss, she underlines. In this regard, ANSES recalls that weight loss without medical indication has risks, especially when the person adopts unbalanced and little diverse food practices“As she specifies, any weight of weight loss must be followed by a healthcare professional.
