Weight Reducing Composition via Magnesium Sodium Ratio

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current weight reduction methods, including diets and medications, are ineffective and often lead to weight regain, and existing mineral waters lack a noticeable spasmolytic effect to suppress hunger and enhance lipolysis, making them inefficient for treating overweight.

Innovation Solution

A weight reducing composition with a specific ratio of sodium (0.01-10 mg/l) and magnesium (25-150 mg/l) in water, which irritates stomach mechanoreceptors, stimulating cholecystokinin secretion and reducing hunger and nutrient absorption, thereby promoting weight loss.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If conventional mineral waters with high mineral content are used for weight reduction, then they provide some therapeutic effect, but they lack a noticeable spasmolytic effect and have high sodium content that causes water retention

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveweight reduction effectivenessVSAvoidwater retention and edema
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSObject-generated harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The invention changes the mineral composition parameters of the water by strictly limiting sodium content to not more than 10 mg/l and controlling magnesium content to 25-150 mg/l, thereby eliminating water retention effects while maintaining spasmolytic activity for weight reduction

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Solution Approach 2:

The invention extracts and removes the harmful high sodium component from conventional mineral waters while retaining and optimizing the beneficial magnesium content that provides spasmolytic effect, creating a purified composition that eliminates water retention

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

2Reliability

If low energy diet (1200-1300 calories per day) is used, then weight reduction of 6-7 kg within 6 months is achieved, but quantitative and qualitative restrictions on food make it difficult to follow and patients eventually regain weight

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveweight reduction effectivenessVSAvoiddiet compliance and sustainability
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The invention introduces a mineral water composition as an intermediary substance that modifies physiological processes (spasmolytic effect, cholecystokinin secretion) to enhance weight loss, allowing patients to follow a more liberal diet while still achieving weight reduction goals

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Reliability

If drugs like sibutramine, leptin and cholecystokinin are used to influence hunger centre, then appetite is lowered, but high risk of side effects such as allergies, hypertension, tachycardia occurs

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveappetite suppression effectivenessVSAvoidside effects including hypertension and tachycardia
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The invention replaces expensive, long-acting pharmaceutical drugs with a simple, safe mineral water composition that provides temporary but repeated spasmolytic effects through regular consumption, eliminating the risk of serious side effects while maintaining appetite suppression benefits

Inventive Principle:
Principle #27Cheap short-living objects (Disposable)

4Reliability

If orlistat and biguanide derivatives are used to prevent fat absorption, then fat absorption is blocked, but diarrhoea, urgent bowel movements and fecal incontinence occur

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvefat absorption blocking effectivenessVSAvoiddiarrhoea and bowel incontinence
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSObject-generated harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The invention converts the mild laxative effect of magnesium into a beneficial spasmolytic action that suppresses hunger and enhances lipolysis through cholecystokinin secretion, transforming potential harmful diarrhoea into a controlled physiological response that aids weight loss without incontinence

Inventive Principle:
Principle #22Blessing in disguise (Convert harm into benefit)

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

The composition achieves a pronounced spasmolytic effect, leading to a twofold to threefold increase in weight loss efficiency compared to existing treatments, with no significant side effects, and is industrially applicable.

Implementation Method 1

A weight reducing composition with a specific ratio of sodium (0.01-10 mg/l) and magnesium (25-150 mg/l) in water, which irritates stomach mechanoreceptors, stimulating cholecystokinin secretion and reducing hunger

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectMechanoreceptor irritation:

Data Source

PatentUS9757413B2Weight reducing composition
Publication Date: 2017.09.12 TETS

AI summary

The invention relates to soft drink industry, in particular, to dietetic nutrition. The inventive weight reducing composition comprises 0.01-10 mg/l of sodium and 25-150 mg/l of magnesium, the rest being water. Said composition (drinking water) makes it possible to reduce weight without altering the usual eating habits. In addition, consumption of said drinking water results in reduction of weight by 1.2-2.9 kg.