Bio3 Fucus-Obesity Cellulite 60 Capsules. Common Name: Fucus. Scientific Name: Fucus vesiculosus and / or Fucus serrata (Phaeophyceae). Properties: Fucus is a light brown alga thallus which is high in minerals, trace elements, vitamins and iodine. In herbal medicine has been traditionally used as antirheumatic, antiarthritic and treatment of obesity. Today it is widely used as an adjuvant in slimming diets due to its iodine content, which works by stimulating the metabolism, or hipersecrección could induce thyroid hormone and therefore an increase in the catabolism of fat and the presence the Base of mucilage, which is rehydrated volume increased considerably, causing a feeling of gastric fullness (mechanical effect of suppressing hunger). Directions: As an adjunct in the treatment of obesity.