Guarana is one of the natural ways to suppress the appetite and is a herbal that is native to Brazil, the one property this plant has is caffeine. There are other compounds that are found in guarana, such as theobromine and theophline.

This is one of the herbal remedies for assisting with weight loss that can have some adverse effects for people that do not consume caffeine on a regular basis as between five hundred to one thousand milligrams of guarana has approximately the same amount of caffeine as two cups of coffee. This means that it can cause nervousness, indigestion, shakes and irritability.

What it can do for the dieter that is taking guarana is to suppress the appetite safely, and without chemicals being put into the body. Suppressing the appetite means the body will use the stored fats as fuel and that equals loss of weight.