HOW PHASE 2 WORKS

Phase 2 is able to "stop starch" from usual daily food intake because it effectively prevents the absorption of carbohydrate calories into the body.

During the digestive process, the carbohydrates from starchy foods like bread and potatoes are converted by the body into sugars. The digestive system does this by acting on and breaking down the carbohydrate molecules with a glycoprotein enzyme produced in the pancreas, known as alpha amylase.

The sugar calories created in this way are made available to the body to be used to fuel exercise or to be stored as fat cells for future use. The body's energy requirements may result in the burning of all the calories made available to it, but any calories not burnt in this way will be stored and the accumulation of these stored fat cells inevitably leads to the unwanted outcome of weight gain.

Phase 2 prevents this usual digestive sequence from occurring because it has a "neutralising" effect on the alpha amylase enzyme and in effect prevents it from carrying out its normal function of converting starch into sugar calories. Essentially, by blocking the action of alpha amylase, the presence of Phase 2 allows carbohydrate foods to be processed by the digestive system with a sharp reduction in the calorie intake.