Warning: High doses of green tea may decrease the effectiveness of warfarin.

Quick Facts: Although this green tea stack is more expensive than the plain ephedrine/caffeine stacks discussed in the thermogenic FAQ, green tea offers many well-documented health benefits. However, more research is needed to fully understand it's thermogenic and appetite suppressant benefits.

Check out this article on EGCG and appetite suppression.

Best Green Tea Stacks

Thoughts on how to combine green tea and thermogenic supplements.

Talk about bad timing. A while back I posted a Best Green Tea Stack based on Herba Fuel and guess what . . . Twinlab stopped making Herba Fuel. Maybe I should recommend some of the so-called "thermogenic" ma huang free formulas. At any rate, lets look at our current options:

You can always take a couple of decaffeinated green tea capsules with any properly formulated (20/200) thermogenic product. Without a doubt, in terms of both potency and price, the best decaffeinated green tea is the Life Extension brand.
Another approach is to buy a low caffeine thermogenic supplement and add enough green tea extract to increase the total caffeine content up to 200 mg. I explain this on my Best Price Competition: Fat Burners/ECA Stack page. A very good -- and economical -- stack of this type is described below (The Thermadrene Stack).
One Mini Thin and Six Natrol Green Tea Capsules: this stack contains 25 mg of ephedrine and about 210 mg of caffeine.
All-in-One Formulas: the closest thing that I have found to an acceptable one-bottle green tea stack is BetaLean HP by EAS. It contains less than an optimal amount of green tea extract, but it is convenient and you can avoid multiple shipping charges. I would have given it a "highly recommended" rating, but BetaLean HP is a time release formula -- and who knows what that does to the thermogenic effect. On the other hand, I've heard good things about this product. If you try it, let me know what you think.

Thermadrene Stack

Thermadrene by SportPharma is a very economical ECA formula that contains 24 mg of ephedrine and 95 mg of caffeine. (Mar 16, 2001: it costs just 11 cents a dose!) If you add three capsules of Natrol Green Tea Extract - OR - 3 capsules of the Jarrow Green Tea Extract, the total caffeine comes up to about 200 mg. This makes an effective -- and bargain-priced -- green tea stack.

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Written
Jan 2001
Last Update
Jan 2001

One Dose Equals:

1 capsule SportPharma Thermadrene
3 capsules of the Natrol Green Tea Extract - OR - 3 capsules of the Jarrow Green Tea Extract.

Do It Right: Take A Good Multi-vitamin

As discussed in The Magnesium Lottery, supplementing certain nutrients that are often lacking in our diets can reduce the risk of a number of diseases. A good multi-vitamin combined with the health benefits of green tea (and losing weight!) could save a LOT of lives. We have now added MultiVitamins to the Best Price Competition: Multivitamins. In addition, I discuss my personal favorite multivitamins in this post.