How GOLO can help you lose weight safely and sustainably

At GOLO, we believe weight loss should never come at the expense of your health. With so many options available today, it’s important to understand what truly supports your body — and what may not.

That’s why we asked Dr. Terry Shirvani — naturopathic physician and scientific expert on the Release® supplement — to share his perspective. Below, Dr. Terry explains how Release works, why ingredient quality matters, and how the GOLO for Life® Plan supports healthy, lasting weight loss.

From Dr. Terry Shirvani

Hello, my name is Dr. Terry Shirvani. As a naturopathic physician and expert in natural medicine, I’ve built my practice around health education and helping people take a holistic approach to improving their well-being. Over the years, I’ve partnered with GOLO as a scientific expert on Release, helping ensure it safely and effectively supports long-term weight loss.

Let’s take a closer look at the principles behind Release, the importance of high-quality ingredients, and how the GOLO for Life Plan can help you lose weight and improve your overall well-being.

What sets Release apart from other weight loss supplements

The fundamental hormone when talking about metabolic health is insulin. Many people become insulin resistant, meaning their cells do not properly respond to insulin, leading to weight gain. Insulin resistance can make it a lot harder to lose weight. 

Release was designed to make losing weight easier by improving insulin sensitivity, helping with appetite control, and reducing stress from dieting. 

Release helps your body respond better to insulin. When your cells aren’t responding well, the ingredients in Release will help support your body as it starts to heal and your insulin starts to function better. It may take some time, but eventually your body will reset itself, and then you won’t necessarily need to take Release; you can phase out of it. Even so, I recommend taking Release long-term for nutritional support. 

Inside Release: the ingredients that help make it work

Release features 10 active ingredients: botanicals, minerals, and other nutrients. The most important of those are Rhodiola Rosea and Banaba extract, and the minerals zinc, chromium, and magnesium. 

Rhodiola is an amazing ingredient that can help with everyday stress management. Many of us eat when we’re stressed and maybe eat the wrong things. When we’re stressed, we find ourselves reaching for things that we wouldn’t normally reach for, going beyond what our common sense would tell us.

Zinc and chromium are very important for insulin to function properly. I don’t think people realize how critical minerals are to health, but they’re a crucial part of a healthy diet!

Why so many people choose Release for weight loss

The dietary supplement industry has exploded in the last few years. There are so many products available, especially for metabolic health and weight management. But you cannot have a quality supplement unless you start with quality ingredients. 

The ingredients in Release are high-quality and were carefully chosen to be the right form of ingredient, the right type of extract, and the right standardization of that extract. The standardization determines the amount of the active component of the botanical. Many of the ingredients in Release are available separately, but we make sure to source the highest quality ingredients available. And our patented, proprietary blend of these ingredients is what makes Release so effective.

GOLO has sold over 15 million bottles of Release without compromising the ingredients, manufacturing, or testing of each lot, while keeping the price stable. 

How the GOLO for Life® Plan supports healthy weight loss 

The GOLO for Life Plan is a holistic solution that shows you how to improve your metabolic health with simple lifestyle changes and guidance on food choices. Lifestyle changes are critical to getting your metabolic health back, putting you on the track to successful and sustainable weight loss.

For many decades, our conventional food has been specifically engineered to get us addicted to it. These highly processed foods that are laden with salt, sugar, and fat are very appealing to certain parts of our brain. We're overfed and undernourished. The more we eat of these ultra-processed foods that are stripped of vital nutrients like vitamins, minerals, phytonutrients, and enzymes, our cells begin to be less responsive to insulin knocking at the door, so to speak, to allow glucose inside the cell. And if glucose doesn't get inside our cells, then they can't do the work needed to make you feel better and keep you healthy.

So, it’s about our food choices and going back to the foods that can truly nourish us. When we start to wake up from eating all these highly processed junk foods and we reeducate our palate, we begin to remember what real food tastes like. It's a revelation!

Many other plans are feeding you these processed foods, calling them “diet foods,” but they're not whole foods. When you eat real food that comes from nature, everything begins to transform in your body.

That’s one of the magical parts of the GOLO for Life Plan. GOLO can help you get back to eating healthfully. 

A whole-body approach to better health

GOLO has other supplements, but not dozens like many companies. They're very focused on exactly the right supplements that address metabolic health and are complementary to each other — supplements that can really make a difference for you. The other supplements address digestion, gut health, fiber intake, and detoxification. GOLO takes a whole-body approach to getting your metabolic health on track.

Understanding the limitations of GLP-1 medications

As an expert in and practitioner of natural medicine, for me, the risks of GLP-1 drugs often outweigh the benefits. That is my perspective and professional opinion. 

To lose weight, you shouldn’t feel forced to do something that may be harmful to you. People need to understand that there are alternatives that don’t put their health at risk. Regardless of whether you’re taking a GLP-1 drug or not, or you may be coming off one, there are going to be some things that you need to heal and recover from. And you may not have addressed the source of your weight issue; you’ve only been addressing the symptoms.

A safer, more natural path to sustainable weight loss

Weight loss options that promise a quick fix often ignore the potentially damaging effects on overall health. What I appreciate about GOLO’s approach is that it offers holistic, natural solutions that can help you lose weight safely and sustainably. A plan that can holistically help your body work the way it’s meant to is one I can fully trust.