Bladderwrack refers to brown algae that are found on the northern Atlantic and the pacific coasts of United States. The bladderwrack stem is known as thallus and can be employed medicinally. The bladders are air filled pods and hence this algae floats. The bladderwrack is also called kelp. Bladderwrack thallus is useful in soothing inflamed and irritated tissues. This is also used historically as a laxative. It is also observed that people residing adjacent to seas or oceans have low rate of hypothyroidism owing to iodine rich food and seaweeds such as bladderwrack. Bladderwrack is also useful in countering obesity as it stimulated the thyroid gland. Seaweeds such as bladderwrack assist in losing weight. Three active constituents are alginic acid, iodine and fucoidan. Bladderwrack is safe and has potential problems in consuming such as thyroid dysfunction, heavy metal contamination and acne. As bladderwrack is another type of seaweed it has excessive iodine and consuming excessive iodine results in health problems.

Garcinia Cambogia is a natural extract that comes from a fruit located in India and is prominent in a plethora of different natural weight loss products.

Guarana is a South American climbing plant belonging to the genus of trees and shrubs called Maple. This plant is common around the Amazon and very present in Brazil. The fruit of the guarana plant is being used in that country to produce a diversity of soft drinks and beverages, having the double caffeine content of the coffee bean. Other nutrients that are contained in the seed besides caffeine are protein, fat and starch, but also adenine, choline, guanine, resin, tannin and xanthine, just to name a few. The cognitive effects of guarana are well documented, but the appetite suppressant qualities of guarana are relatively new. A study has proven that a combination of yerba mate, guarana and damiana leads to a tenfold weight loss quantity when compared with a placebo.