Best Fat-Burner Supplements in 2021

Posted on August 9, 2021

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Most people, most of the time, would agree that they could lose a few pounds. Let's face it, gaining body fat is as simple as discovering a new restaurant or binge-worthy TV series, which tends to lead to snacking.

Few would argue that the most important approach to fat-loss is changing what you eat. This is what drives metabolic change, allowing your body access to those fat reserves for energy.

For many, limiting carbohydrate intake can be helpful to improve insulin sensitivity. You don’t have to go zero carb or ketogenic. But putting a cap on carbs can be extremely helpful.

Just keeping calories under control may not be enough to produce weight loss or shredding results, unless you are one of the rare few who has profoundly good health (strong insulin sensitivity). This is one of the reasons many weight loss diets fail to produce results and can leave one feeling quite unwell.

In addition, increasing fibre and protein intake are important for any weight loss approach, as well as changing the types of fats you consume—think more Omega 3, quality olive oil and saturated fats (Linolenic acid, EPA and DHA), and less vegetable oils.

Exercise is an important part of living a healthy life. A combination of resistance and aerobic is a great way to go to support bone density and muscle mass as well as aerobic fitness.

If you’ve been sedentary for some time, you don’t have to jump straight in with intense and exhausting activity. In fact, this may actually spike your cortisol levels and make things worse in the short term.

Plus, who wants to regularly engage in exercise that is so extreme that you pretty much want to give up and go home after the first session?

Light and easy exercise is the best place to start if you have been sedentary for a while. Finding activities that you enjoy are the ones more likely to stick long-term (over decades) is the best option.

You can always work your way up to higher intensity exercise down the track. Starting with light exercise also helps to prevent injuries while you adjust to new movements.

In terms of calories, it’s extremely difficult to create a significant calorie deficit just through exercise alone—you would need to run a daily marathon. So a dietary focus is paramount.

In saying this, there are plenty of co-morbidities that can make one more susceptible to holding fat-mass. If you suffer with any of these, ideally address them with the assistance of a healthcare practitioner.

For instance, hypothyroidism, insulin resistance, hypercortisolinemia and an imbalance in the oestrogen to progesterone ratio, amongst others, make fat-loss much more of a battle than it needs to be.

On top of this common nutritional deficiencies contribute to high fat-mass, such as a high Omega 6 to 3 fatty acid ratio, low zinc, magnesium, chromium and more.

With a balanced dietary approach and some exercise thrown into the mix, a fat-burner product supports the process and can be psychologically motivating, as well as helpful for keep the metabolism firing.

Apart from the caffeine content of theses products, which is a proven thermogenic, there are many others that are proven in quality scientific research to be effective, such as Capsaicin, standardized Green Tea and Green Coffee, L-Carnitine and more.

And enjoying a caffeinated flavoured drink can be a nice primer for the training session that is about to start. Caffeine is a powerful natural compound, and can sweep apathy away quite effectively so you can train with more motivation.

Thermal Switch

Switch Nutrition have made sure that their products not only offer an exceptional ingredient range, but also refreshing flavours created with natural sweeteners and flavours.

When it comes to sports nutrition products, this is a rare feat of research and development. It means that you can enjoy each guilt-free sip knowing that the product has been created with holisitic health in mind.

This product contains 250mg of caffeine per serve, extracted from tea leaf, and may be used before exercise or throughout the day whenever an additional energy, mood or thermogenic boost are required.

Thermal Switch supports a healthy metabolic rate, with Green Tea, Acetyl L-Carnitine and Citrus aurantium.

This is a quality product from a company that takes sports nutrition and wellness supplementation seriously.

X50 Showtime

Since the release of X50 Green Tea, Tribeca Health have been enjoying a popularity that most supplement companies only dream of.

Their thermogenic fat-burner powder offers a range of amino acids and herbal extracts to help you make the most of your time spent exercising, whilst kicking your metabolism into high gear.

Standardised Green Tea and Acetyl L-Carnitine are always welcome additions to a fat-burning powder, even though they don’t exactly inspire innovative awe in the consumer.

However, they are more tried and tested than most fat-burners out there. Scientific evidence points to the fact that quality Green Tea, with a high EGCG content, and L-Carnitine supplements improve the rate of fat-loss.

Of course, as with most natural sports nutrition supplements, expectations need to be curtailed. The kilograms won’t be falling from you over a matter of days. But with consistent exercise, improvements in the quality of your diet and a more health-focused lifestyle, a product like X50 Showtime can offer welcome support.

Ghost Burn

 Ghost have a product range that excites the senses with funky flavour profiles, exciting colour schemes and concept packaging. Fortunately, their ingredients are just as innovative.

Ghost Burn offers quality KSM-66 Ashwagandha (Withania), supporting a healthy testosterone to cortisol ratio and stress response, making it easier to adapt to new exercise programs.

This product also offers the power of Grains of Paradise, Neurofactor Coffee, Bitter Orange (Citrus aurantium) Cocoa Bean. Choline Bitartrate and L-Tyrosine.

On top of all this, each serve contains 1.5 grams of a combination of Acetyl L-Carnitine and L-Carnitine Tartrate and Bioperine Black Pepper extract to support active ingredient absorption.

Ghost Burn tastes great, offers 150mg of caffeine per scoop and certainly can turn up the exercise enthusiasm when you’ve got an upcoming training session that may not look too appealing from the depths of a soft couch cushion.

Power Performance Products Body Effects

Body Effects contains a broad range of ingredients to promote a healthy metabolism, reduce stress and keep hunger to a minimum.

With a B Vitamin complex, that includes B1, B2, B3, B5, B6 and B12, you can be sure that stress management is on offer to help you power through the day with ease.

Body Effects also packs some serious thermogenic power, with Yerba Mate, Caffeine, EGCG and Synephrine. While the stimulant power of caffeine and synephrine, as well as the naturally occurring caffeine in Yerba Mate, drive the metabolism and create some body heat, EGCG promotes a healthy metabolism.

This product also contains Cactus leaf extract, PEA, CLA, Sta-Lite III and Dandelion Root Extract to support fat burning, reduce hunger and reduce fluid retention.

Body Effects is a potent all-rounder thermogenic that has been used by athletes around the globe. Few fat-burners stack up when compared to it. If you're really looking for an edge to weight loss, this product is worth a try.

Alien Lit Thermogenic

Packing two grams of carnitine, in both L-Carnitine Tartrate and Acetyl L-Carnitine forms, Alien Lit is sure to kick start your weight loss journey and get you moving in the right direction.

Carnitine alone has been shown to increase weight loss by an average of 1.33kg compared to placebo. This fascinating supplement promotes a healthy mood, learning and memory, energy levels, mitochondrial health, exercise recovery and much more.

With Grains of Paradise, Synephrine, NeuroFactor (Coffee arabica), Choline and Tea Leaf Extract, Alien Lit is uniquely suited to ramping up the metabolism, increasing energy levels and helping you burn fat.

This fat-burner also packs a "Healthy Stuff" range of ingredients, designed to keep you overall health on track. This includes, a 10:1 extract of Ashwagandha, also known as Withania somnifera, Winter Cherry and Indian Ginseng.

Ashwagandha has been shown to improve body composition, reduce subjective and non-subjective markers of psychological stress, reduce cortisol levels and even improve food choices!

To top off the formulation, Alien Lit offers Fulvic Minerals to support overall wellness and a Vitamin premix that includes a B Complex, Vitamin C and Vitamin D3.

This is the ultimate of all ultimate fat-burners. If you're looking for something to really help you get the job done, keep motivated and energised, Alien Lit knows how to deliver.

ON Burn Complex

Optimum Nutrition released this product in both a caffeinated and caffeine-free version. For an in-depth technical discussion, check out the Sporty’s Health ON Burn Complex Review.

Optimum Nutrition offer an exceptional range of quality sports nutrition products, with their thermogenics designed to make a real difference to fat-loss, mood, energy and more.

These products contain a range of proven fat-burners, including Acetyl L-Carnitine, Cayenne Extract (Capsimax), Green Tea and Guarana (caffeinated version only).

These ingredient selections are based on positive scientific studies indicating that they are able to naturally support a healthy metabolism, making it a little easier to create the calorie deficit required for fat-burning.

The caffeinated version works well as a pre-workout, offering the often very necessary stimulation and motivation required to enjoy your regular training sessions.  

Herbs of Gold Burn X

Don’t be fooled by this products plain aqua-coloured label. This product packs plenty of punch with the inclusion of standardized ingredients, including Green Coffee, Green Tea, Coleus and a little Carnitine.

Okay, so there may not be enough Carnitine in here to do a whole heck of a lot. However, setting this ingredient aside, there are more than enough herbal extracts to make a difference.

With Green Tea offering 75mg EGCG, you can be sure that you have antioxidant support and an improved ability to access abdominal fat stores for energy, as long as you are exercising.

Then there’s Green Coffee and the famous chlorogenic acids. Again, these potent antioxidants believed to be responsible for improvements in all-cause mortality (except for cancer) also support a healthy metabolism.

BurnX can be taken three times daily to support healthy fat-loss, along with appropriate dietary, exercise and lifestyle changes that are always integral.