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OxyElite Pro: Anonymous User Posts Lab Report at BB.COM

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Normally this would not be a topic for SuppVersity, but with my personal OxyElite Pro -experience being surprisingly productive (i.e. far more than one would expect from a combination of the ingredients on the label), I considered this LabReport worth posting: If you compare the lab-analysis with the ingredient list on the label of OxyElite Pro there is one compound which should not be in there, which is alpha-methylsynephrine; I will comment on the low does of Cirsium, Bacosides & Bauhinia in the body of this blogpost Originally, it appeared on the BB.COM forum where both poster, as well as image have been removed within hours. With about 17,000 visitors and more than 600 contributions the thread literally exploded within the first 24h. In spite of that, I could not find any of the otherwise (over-)active USP-Labs-Reps comment or at least refute the results of this lab analysis. If you have a closer look at the label of OxyElite Pro and compare what you read to the lab ...
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Cirsimarin: An Almost Completely Overlooked Lipolytic Agent

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It is interesting that, with the exception of USP Labs , who happen to have a talent to find "unorthodox" ingredients for their products, no supplement company has yet sourced an extract from Microtea debilis . After all, a similar extract ("similar" to the one used in USP Lab's Recreate ) was found to exert strong lipolytic properties being 20 times more potent than caffeine in a 2005 study by Girotti et.al. (cf. Girotti, 2005 Fig.1, below) Although the mechanism of action has not yet been fully investigated, a previous study by Hasrat et.al. found an antagonistic interaction with adenosine receptors similar to that of caffeine ( Hasrat. 1997 ). The exact effect of Cirsimarin differs however from that of caffeine and the less pronounced effects Gingko biloba, so that the researchers conclude: "This suggests that [...] the lipolytic activity of cirsimarin is related to another mechanism. [...] Studies to identify the precise mechanism of action of cir...
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