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What Should I Know Before Using Pyruvate Supplements?

What Should I Know Before Using Pyruvate Supplements? (0:36)

You can get pyruvate from apples, red wine or red grapes, though a supplement is more appropriate for 1-2 months if you are trying to lose weight. In this video, Eva Selhub, MD, explains the benefits and side effects of pyruvate.

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You can get pyruvate from apples, red wine or red grapes, so you'd have to take those things in very large amounts to get the desired effects which isn't going to help you, if you're trying to lose weight, so you can take a supplement about six grams a day. I recommend taking it for about one to two months, at high doses you will probably experience gastrointestinal effects.

You want to keep it at six grams. Again if you think about it raising your metabolism, so let it raise your metabolism get a boost, and then pick it up with your exercise and healthy diet and then I would go off a bit after one to two months and see how it goes.