Elcella - anyone else trying it?

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Hi, name changed for this, I’ve purchased a month’s supply to try and I’m coming up to a week and think it’s really helped me to quieten the food thoughts. However taking it as recommended at lunch and dinner means the mornings are hard so I’m experimenting when’s best to take it. Just wondered if anyone else is trying it and how they’ve found it?

it actually quite interesting and is based on solid research done at QMUL. It’s basically a combination of ingredients which naturally stimulate GLP1 in the body.
It is a healthy approach to be fair. WLI are synthetic whereas this is natural ingredients which are gentler.
This kind of natural approach may well be the way forward for a lot of people in the future. May even be good for maintenance.
It is expensive though and I’m sticking with MJ. But I do think it offers an alternative for people.
It is actually possible to stimulate GLP1 through eating certain foods. This is an extension of this and the coating enhances the effect. Obviously the impact is less than a WLI but it is backed up by research.

At £595 for oil capsules, it's hardly 'more accessible'! If people are stopping Mounjaro because of the price, how will they afford this?

I wouldn’t call it more accessible. An alternative for sure but not an equivalent one anyway. But not everyone wants to take injections.
It is very expensive for capsules but the £500 is for 3 months supply I believe.

All capsules reach the gut. That’s why they’re capsules.

@IsItSnowing "WLI are synthetic whereas this is natural ingredients which are gentler."
Just because something is natural doesn't mean it is gentler. Natural things are often modified for human use because they aren't gentle at all. So I don't think the terms "natural" and "gentler" can be linked automatically

I agree. I didn’t mean to suggest the terms always went together. I think in this case it applies though in terms of less side effects.
However I’m not suggesting they’re comparable to WLI just interested in the science really. I’m not interested in taking them.

This is exactly what it does, this is a science backed coating that ensures it breaks down on the colon. My understanding it is effective as mounjaro after 12 weeks

The coating on the capsules is designed to only release the active ingredients once they reach the colon. It's similar action to other well established medication. Useless for me as I don't have a colon.

I know the person who was one of the phd supervisors for the researcher who has led the clinical trial for this. Yes it's natural ingredients but this has been through proper trials and found to be effective. There's a daily fail article about someone who was part of the trial. Much like GLP1s it won't work for everyone.

It's very possible and very normal. Pentasa for example (a 5 ASA drug used to treat inflammatory bowel disease) is coated to release the active ingredients in the colon and not before

Where is that info about bring as effective as Mounjaro?

It's about as expensive as Mounjaro, anyway.

I read on their website from the trails they have done

I started on it this afternoon. Feel full after dinner! I only have around a stone to lose but peri making it impossible, curious to see if it helps. Am happy to lose slowly.

I lost 9kg over 12 weeks and I am now taking a lower dosage, 4 tablets twice a day. Have been doing this for the last 5 weeks and lost an additional 1kg. The big thing was losing 7cm off my waist.

That's interesting @Marihadji. Having just started and the dose is two lots of 4 (a few hours before lunch and before dinner). Did it used to be a higher dose or do you mean you're splitting 4 pills across the two? Great to hear about your progress. Day two and I haven't snacked, meals have been roughly the same portions but am now overly stuffed after dinner so will try to reduce tomorrow

I started on taking 4 capsules twice a day for the first 12 weeks. I found taking 4 when I got up/had breakfast and 4 three hours before my evening meal worked best. I more energised, stopped snacking and felt full as I was eating within the first week. I only lost 1kg in the first 5 weeks, but lost 3 cm off my waist. I then consistently lost weight over the next 7 weeks. I hope that helps, best of luck with your journey.

Really helpful thank you. I've only signed up for 4 weeks but think I need to give it much longer as seems like a slow burn, which I am happy with

someone who’s experienced liver problems from antibiotics

Do you avoid many things in life because it might cause issues? Trust science, not snake oil pedlars

Do you have link to the scientific studies to prove this?

https://www.qmul.ac.uk/research/featured-research/nutrient-discovery-delivers-low-cost-drug-free-treatment-for-obesity/

That's the information on the University website. I don't think the studies have been published yet, I believe they only concluded this year and it takes a long time to get through peer review and published. We have been waiting since last September to publish the results of a surgical trial I'm involved with.

This is definitely science backed and founded by scientists not marketeers. Check their website

Third day and appetite is really nicely lowered today. My only complaint so far is the packaging - came really attractively packed but the box has a large 'ELCELLA' on the front...not that the brand means much to people without googling yet, but would prefer to be discrete about my weight loss, including with my own family and to have plain outer packaging

I’ve ordered just a month’s supply of this to start with. I don’t meet the bmi criteria for the injections- my bmi is about 28-29.
Is it actually working for you OP? I’m worried it’s all a bit of a scam..

I’m trying Elcella before trying injections because I’d rather lose weight slowly and I think I’d just read too many accounts of rapid weight loss and awful side effects and, wrongly I know, extrapolated from that to see those things as normal. Anyway, I’m almost three months in now and about 7.5kg down. I’m eating healthily (as I was before, mostly), feeling full after meals and, crucially, I haven’t been tempted to snack. For me, not snacking in three months is pretty unheard of. I didn’t measure myself before starting but in the last two months I’ve lost a couple on inches off my hips and about three from my waist.

I may yet end up on Mounjaro but for the time being I’m sticking with Elcella. I do think it’s way too expensive and I’m still not sure whether it’s working because it’s working or because spending money on it has made me improve my habits. But, either way, it is working and that’s what matters.

Great to hear the success stories! I need to work on listening to my hunger cues. I'm sometimes still eating when I'm not hungry just out of habit (eg a little something sweet with my coffee when I don't need it). But by and large my snacking has cut down massively in just under a week of being on the pills