The magnesium salt of Citrin® (Calcium hydroxycitrate) helps in weight loss. While simultaneously providing magnesium, the mineral element essential for energy metabolism. A number of investigators have reported that serum magnesium levels are reduced in response to endurance exercise, strenuous intense exercise or strength training and that depleted magnesium levels could result in muscle break down on account of the sensitive role of magnesium in protein metabolism¹. Hydroxycitric acid in Citrin® helps to increase the metabolic rate through enhanced glycogen synthesis, thereby increasing energy production².

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2. Flatt, J.P. The Biochemistry of Energy Expenditure. In Recent Advances in Obesity Research II, Bray, G.A. ed. Newman, London, 1978, pp. 211-228.