by 27 mg of ephedra extract and 200 mg of caffeine in 2 caplets. Green Stinger, by Schwartz Labs.
What is in a Green Stinger serving?
Serving size, 2 caplets. 60 servings to the bottle.
Green Stinger: ephedra extract 27 mg. Acacia rigidula (95%) 150 mg. Phenylethylamine HCL 150 mg. Theobroma cocoa 100 mg.
Green tea extract 120 mg, 45% epigallocatechin gallate. Naringen 30 mg. Evodiamine (98%) 10 mg. White willow bark extract, 300 mg.
Proprietary Yohimatrix, 10 mg. Three yohimbe preparations in it: yohimbine HCL, alpha-yohimbine, 11-hydroxy yohimbine.
Green Stinger. Schwartz Labs, 2 caplets a serving.
Where does the caffeine in Green Stinger come from?
TriENRG, 300 mg. Kola nut extract, guarana extract, yerba mate. The label prints 200mg total caffeine from the three.
Some weight loss labels “do not declare the amount of caffeine in the product and only list the herbal ingredients,” per the ODS weight loss fact sheet. Green Stinger prints both.
How to Use, on the shop page: “take 2 caplets 2 times a day.” 54 mg ephedra extract and 400 mg caffeine by the label.
FDA: “400 milligrams” a day for most adults, “about two to three 12-fluid-ounce cups of coffee.”
What are yohimbe and bitter orange?
Yohimbe is “a West African evergreen tree,” says ODS. The bark “contains several indole alkaloids, including yohimbine.”
Bryan Thomas runs Live Lean Today and has taken diet pills himself. With yohimbe in the formula, he says, your body “has kind of a tingling sensation.”
Citrus aurantium (bitter orange), 170 mg on this panel. ODS: “As alpha-adrenergic agonists, synephrine alkaloids can mimic the action of epinephrine and norepinephrine.”
Synephrine products on the Live Lean Today shop.
How does Green Stinger compare with Lipodrene?
Lipodrene: 1 tablet, 100 to the bottle. Ephedra extract 25mg inside a 560mg blend. Caffeine anhydrous 100mg. $39.95.
Bryan has carried Hi-Tech, the Lipodrene maker, for about 20 years.
Lipodrene vs Green Stinger, both panels.
How are ephedra and ephedrine different on a label?
Ephedra extract, by weight. No ephedrine figure on the Green Stinger panel.
Over 100 ephedra plants, by Bryan’s count. The old one was Ephedra sinica, from China. Today’s, he says, are Ephedra nevadensis and Ephedra viridis, from the western U.S. and Mexico.
His shop also holds a DEA license for ephedrine HCl. “We do not sell ephedrine for weight loss,” he says. The hardest part of the job, in his words, is “the consumer confusion over the different versions of ephedra or ephedrine.”
The FDA’s 2004 final rule covers “dietary supplements containing ephedrine alkaloids.” 21 CFR 119.1, per the compliance guide.
Ephedra vs ephedrine on the Live Lean Today blog.
Where are the Green Stinger label numbers listed?
So, 27 mg of ephedra extract. 200 mg of caffeine. Two caplets.
Bryan’s own take on stimulant pills: “the strong stimulant ones you can definitely feel.” How much depends on your “ability to tolerate caffeine,” he adds.
