What is ?
A healthcare company committed to bringing state-of-the-art therapeutic concepts to the medical practitioners in Pakistan.

What is NutraWay?
The Biovista Division comprising a range of high quality, scientifically researched nutraceuticals, offering a new dimension in Health Management.

Describe Nutraceuticals?
Nutraceuticals are natural, bioactive chemical compounds that have health promoting, disease preventing or medicinal properties.

What is?
Forslean is the leading international brand of coleus forskohlii standardized extract, a natural product for weight management.

How do we guarantee the quality of Forslean?
Forslean is manufactured using patented process, and the same is being marketed in countries like USA & Japan having extremely stringent quality requirements. Forslean is also used as the main ingredient in several international brands made with different combination of ingredients.

What is the composition of Forslean?
Each film coated tablet contains coleus forskohlii standardized extract (10% forskolin) 250 mg, and piperine: 5 mg, which is a patented bioavailability enhancer.

What is the mechanism of action of Forslean?
Forslean acts by:
• Increasing Camp in adipocytes through activation of adenylate cyclase
• Hydrolysis of triglycerides
• Releasing free fatty acids & glycerol from fat cells enhancing lipolysis

These events lead to regulation of:
• Body thermogenic response to food
• Increased basic metabolic rate of the body
• Increased utilization of body fat

Resulting in:
• Increase in Lean Body Mass
• Decrease in weight

What is Lean Body Mass?
• Lean body mass is constituted by muscles, vital organs, bone and bone marrow, connective tissues and body water.
• Lean Body Mass is the part of your total body weight that is not fat.

Why it is important to increase Lean Body Mass?
• The ratio of Lean Body Mass to fat determines the body aesthetic appearance, but more importantly it is the index of physical fitness, health status, susceptibility to disease and premature death.
• Lean Body Mass helps to regulate the body metabolism and fat to maintain it at healthy levels.

What are the benefits of Forslean?
• Safe, naturally derived & effective.
• Patented for manufacturing process and use in promoting Lean Body Mass
• Clinically tested internationally in humans.

How much weight expected to loose by using Forslean?
Results may vary from individuals. Forslean helps maintain healthy body weight, participants in clinical trials lost two to nine pounds over an eight to twelve weeks period and more importantly preserved or increased their Lean Body Mass. There were no incidence of serious or irreversible side effects.

What is the dose of Forslean?
One tablet twice daily 30 minutes before meals

Can Forslean be given as a concomitant therapy or alone?
It can be given alone, with recommendation for diet modification and physical exercise.

Is scientific data available for Forslean?
There are numerous internationally published scientific studies regarding efficacy & safety of coleus forskohlii available, which will be made available for the medical professionals.

What are side effects?
Animal model studies conducted on forskohlin reported an extremely low order of toxicity. Although no major side effects have been reported in humans, coleus forskohlii should be avoided by patients with gastric ulcer and low blood pressure.

What are the contraindications?
Use in presence of ulcer because of stimulation of gastric acid, and in diabetes due to stimulation of lipid release and gluconeogensis.

Pregnant/Breast-feeding women:
Information regarding safety and efficacy in pregnancy and lactation is lacking, which calls for caution while use in such cases until such time that its safety is established clinically.

What are the drug interactions?
May have additive effects with anticoagulants, antihypertensive and vasodilators

What is the Price and per day therapy cost of Forslean?
Price per tablet is Rs. 29 and for pack of 14 tablets is Rs. 410, or a per day cost of Rs. 58.

Where can the patients find Forslean?
Forslean is easily available at all leading chemist and retail outlets across Pakistan. In case of any availability problem, our toll-free helpline 0800-84848 is available for guidance and support.