Original brand name diet pills with ephedra that used to be so popular are no longer available and have not been since 2004 when the FDA made ephedra illegal. This has not stopped the interest or popularity of these ephedra products as shown by the number of searches each month for them.
Quick Ephedra Fact: Look for ephedra sinica only. If the label tries to convince you that some other type of ephedra plant was used then you are getting ripped off.
It is a simple matter of bio-chemistry that all living things need constant supplies of both energy and matter; the intake and conversion of these elements within a bodily system is known as the metabolism. The concept of “metabolism” is an easy one to clarify: given how all living things require energy to remain alive, and furthermore, given how energy does not simply drift around in a form that our bodies can process, we must receive it in another way.