Weight Loss

Slentiva™ WEIGHT LOSS
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Q: What is Slentiva™?
A. Slentiva is a dietary supplement formulated to enhance satiety (feeling full or satisfied) and help patients feel more full for a longer period of time.

Q. What does Slentiva taste like?
A. Slentiva is provided in a soft, delicious chocolate chewable. Patient response to the delivery form has been overwhelmingly positive.

Q. What is Slentiva’s active ingredient?
A. Slentiva supplies a natural potato protein extract from potato peels that is produced via a patented process. This ingredient—which has been the subject of numerous clinical trials—beneficially influences the release of cholecystokinin (CCK) levels through its action as a proteinase inhibitor II (PI2). One dose of Slentiva supplies as much potato protein extract as found in four potatoes, which may help your patients feel more full faster and for a longer period of time, as well as support a healthy glucose response when taken before a meal.

Q. What is cholecystokinin (CCK)?
A. CCK is a natural satiety factor associated with feeling full or satisfied. Specifically, CCK is released by cells in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract when food and/or certain compounds (e.g., PI2) are detected. First discovered in 1928, CCK has an extensive history of research, making it one of the most studied satiety factors in nutritional science.

Q. What type of research has been conducted on the active ingredient, PI2?
A. To date, at least 15 human clinical studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of PI2 in beneficially influencing one or more of the following:
• CCK
• Hunger
• Satiety
• Glucose
• Weight loss

Q. How quickly does Slentiva work?
A. Slentiva may help your patients manage their feelings of hunger within 60 minutes. And some patients have reported feeling a decreased desire to eat and an increased sense of fullness for more than two hours after ingesting Slentiva’s active ingredient.

Q. Is Slentiva safe?
A. In addition to its strong track record of efficacy, Slentiva has an excellent safety profile. No serious adverse effects of the active ingredient have been reported in the 15 human clinical studies.

Q. How is Slentiva different?
A. Some dietary supplements for hunger management contain high amounts of herbal stimulants, caffeine, phenylpropranolamine, or other ingredients with potential adverse effects. As a safer option, Slentiva supplies a natural potato peel extract that has been repeatedly demonstrated free of serious adverse effects.

Q. Who would benefit from Slentiva?
A. Slentiva provides ideal support to help patients struggling with an existing lifestyle change program, and is also great for individuals who do not want to go on any specific program but would like support for hunger management. In other words, Slentiva is designed for use as both short-term support or as part of an ongoing program depending on your patients' needs.

Q. Does it matter what current program my patient is on?
A. Slentiva is designed to work with any therapeutic lifestyle changes (TLC) program to provide patients with another tool for hunger management.

Q. What is the recommended dosage?
A. One chew daily 30 to 60 minutes prior to the largest meal.

Q. Will eating one Slentiva a day work or do patients need to take more?
A. The potency of the potato protein extract in Slentiva allows for efficacy with just one chew daily; therefore, we recommend that patients follow this general guideline as a starting point. But if extra support is needed, consider a program that includes Slentiva twice daily (one chew 30 to 60 minutes prior to the two largest meals).

Q. How many Slentiva chews can my patients eat?
A. The research on the potato protein has shown no serious adverse effects even at levels as high as 600 mg daily. Still, we recommend a dosage of 1 to 2 chews daily because studies have shown there’s little-to-no added benefit of consuming more than 2 chews. In addition, some patients may exhibit a sensitivity to the ingredient maltitol, a sugar molecule, over a certain level (each Slentiva chew contains 3 g of the sweetener maltitol).

Q. What is maltitol and why is it used in Slentiva?
A. Maltitol is a sugar alcohol derived from corn. Used as a sweetener, some of maltitol's advantages over table sugar include fewer calories and it does not promote tooth decay. However, consumed in excess, sugar alcohols may cause GI discomfort.