It's fifty bucks a month for the low dose program. And it's made from fairly cheap ingredients. Many of them have been demonstrated to enhance weight loss, but you
must exercise and diet, too.
Here's what it has, with some notes for making your own:
-Vitamin C (as Calcium Ascorbate) 100 mg -- Available everywhere.
-Calcium 150 mg -- Available everywhere.
-Chromium polynicotinate 40 mg -- Widely available. Fairly cheap. Effective in reducing insulin resistance, well-studied.
-Green tea extract about 100 mg -- Widely available, cheap, effective.
-Bitter Orange Peel (synephrine) about 25 mg -- Widely available. Fairly cheap. Be careful, this is a stimulant analogue of Ephedrine.
-Banaba leaf extract (corosolic acid) 16.5 mg -- Available as GlucoTrim from NOW vitamins, $15/60 gels of 24 mg. Effective in reducing insulin resistance; has the most promise of all these ingredients.
-Vanadyl sulfate 5 mcg -- Widely available, moderately expensive. Effective in reducing insulin resistance.
Take 2-6 times a day.
Ref: http://www.cortislim.com/ingredients.htm
Note that when I say "effective", it means that it has been demonstrated to be effective, though in some cases, only by two or three studies. And not for everybody! So it might not be effective at all for you.
By the way, the only ingredient that actually lowers cortisol is the vitamin C. The other stuff reduces insulin resistence, which will usually cause a 2-5% weight loss in obese people; but Glucophage (metformin) works better.
My experience: I take corosolic acid, 48 mg/day. It keeps my blood sugar more stable. I've tried most of the other stuff, and it probably helps a little, but I never noticed much of a difference. I also eat as healthy as I can afford, and exercise.
You'd do just as well to eat more vegetables and get more sleep.
And my usual advice and disclaimer: Study it before you eat it.
--bkl