My doctor suggested taking lipoic acid when I whined about wanting to lose more weight (had already told her about Atkins), and I tried a bottle, 333 mg 2x/day. I'm noticing a shift, slightly smaller, one pound down with the same level of eating that had me stable before.

Haven't seen discussion of this on the boards. Anyone else take it? Brief research says it works on carb metabolism, but I don't know that I eat enough carbs to make much of a difference. Expensive, and I would like to know more about it before I shell out for another bottle. Could be that the small weight loss has nothing to do with this particular supplement.

(Of course, I can also go back to the doctor...)

i take it regularly. it does help to keep you in ketosis by getting sugars out of the blood and it is a great antioxidant.

try doing a forum/thread search using "alpa lipoic acid".

I tried it too for one month after stalling for like 3 weeks. After the one month period I lost like 4 pounds

Only complaint I got is they are quite expensive to take where I live.

ALA is a powerful antioxidant and it's one of the big supplements recommended for diabetics to help control insulin levels. There's a 'monster' thread about it in the Bernstein / Diabetes forum, FYI. Supplementwatch.com (in the sticky on Supplement resources above) has loads of unbiased information on it as well.

Nat

Read the Reader's Digest November 2003 issue
"The End of Aging" by Amy Ellis Nutt from the Star-Ledger. This is just the tip of the iceberg concerning ALA. I think we'll see many major articles coming to press on this wonderful little pill in the next months.