Force Factor TEST X180 IGNITE Testosterone Booster And Fat Burner Review

Ben BA(Hons), PGCert

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First Look:

Almost identical to its brotherly brethren, called Test X180, this offers a high quality and masculine look. It is certainly straying away from the common pharma look we see so often around these parts. However, what stands this apart from the much of the rest is the inclusion of ingredients which help burn fat, so essentially it is a 2-in-1.

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Ingredients:

Quite irksomely this beholds 2 proprietary blends, now this lists every ingredient in each blend and it displays the amount for each blend in mg but, and it is a big but (they don’t lie) we just do not know the breakdown for each ingredient. This means we could quite easily only have trace amounts of each and a bulking agent to bring it up to the 400mg. It is a con basically and commonplace in the supplement industry, it should really be stamped out by now.

The first proprietary blend is call the ‘Manliness Matrix’. I cannot help but laugh at this. It sounds absurd.

Fenugreek Seed (Trigonella Foenum-Graecum) – It is claimed by researchers that fenugreek works to increase testosterone or androgen levels, which decrease as you age.

http://www.nutraingredients-usa.com/Research/Fenugreek-extract-shows-benefits-for-the-male-menopause-Human-data

Tongkat Ali – Eurycoma (LongJack) is a pro-fertility agent and aphrodisiac that appears to have a large body of evidence supporting this role and some evidence suggesting it may be an anti-estrogen and pro-erectile agent. However, there is a lack of evidence for testosterone boosting in humans, although some very limited evidence in animals.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3433727/

Avena Sativa (Oat) – This is a type of oat that has been seen to raise luteinzing hormones in the body, which are a precursor to testosterone and growth hormone. Not a great deal of real, heavy evidence if anything at all but the hallmarks of something good are there. A bit of a gamble. In plenty of T-Boosters that do not work.

Green Tea – well known to have many powerful health benefits. Clinical studies suggest that green tea extract may boost metabolism and help burn fat as well as improve cognitive function. One study found that the combination of green tea and caffeine improved weight loss and maintenance in people who were overweight and moderately obese. Some researchers think that substances in green tea known as catechins are responsible for the herb’s fat-burning effect. Green tea extract is found in many a good fat burning supplement.

http://news.psu.edu/story/310179/2014/04/02/research/research-suggests-green-tea-exercise-boost-weight-loss-health

However, as a testosterone booster, the findings from an Indian study suggests that our testosterone levels would drop whilst drinking green tea, in fact it could be up to 78% if you went mental and had 20 cups per day. If you are a bit less unhinged and just had 5 cups it would still drop levels by 25%.

http://nopr.niscair.res.in/bitstream/123456789/12615/1/IJEB%2049(9)%20689-697.pdf

Caffeine Anhydrous – The purest form of caffeine available. This compliments the green tea. It stimulates the central nervous system (CNS), heart, muscles, and the centers that control blood pressure to give you an extra boost and hit that PB. This is found in Modern Man Testosterone Booster and Fat Burner

http://www.webmd.com/vitamins-supplements/ingredientmono-979-caffeine.aspx?activeingredientid=979

C. Canephora Robusta (Green Coffee Extract) – Evidence from research has indicated that the consumption of caffeinated coffee can lead to some reductions in long-term weight gain, an effect which is likely to be due to the known thermogenic effects of caffeine intake.

http://www.hindawi.com/journals/grp/2011/382852/

White Tea – It is generally regarded that any form of tea is good, and white tea has even more concentrated antioxidants than even green tea plus more anticancer properties. White Tea is supposed to stimulate the metabolism and help burn calories but I can find no real science behind these claims anywhere unless it is a website trying to attract more traffic.

Dose:

4 capsules a day, this is ideal and is recommended by our top 3 testosterone boosters. This way your body has a constant trickle of the ingredients to work with in order to stimulate testosterone. However, the recommended dosing schedule is 2 capsules at once in the morning and then 2 later on the day which prevents that constant elevated effect of the ingredients. There is only 1600mg per daily serving which makes me feel as though we are being short changed compared to some others.

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Effects:

I cannot help but think not only are we being issued with a very mild dose of ingredients there’s not a large ingredient profile to optimize testosterone levels.

In fact we are being offered very little overall. From the ‘Manliness Matrix’ (sounds like a gay super hero) only Fenugreek is beneficial yet we do not have a real idea of how much we are getting. Products like TestoFuel offer 100mg of Fenugreek, I do not think this will offer that much.

The problem being the testosterone boosting content is way off the mark and is surpassed by PrimeMale’s whopping 1600mg of D-Aspartic Acid it contains, not to mention the plethora of supporting ingredients that are proven to be effective which are found in PrimeMale.

In respect of the ‘Fat Incineration Complex’, we are offered 3 good ingredients as found in the best fat burner on the market at the moment.

However, whilst they share a few ingredients, Instant Knockout has literally knocked this for 6. The fat burner blend consists of 400mg but there’s 500mg of green tea in Instant Knockout alone! Not to mention the 100mg of green coffee and 350mg of caffeine and that is not even mentioning the whole plethora of other proven ingredients.

Negatives:

Overall there’s a real lack of ingredients, for the testosterone boosting part only 1 ingredient is useful, but only really useful in conjunction with other great, proven ingredients, not as a lone ranger.

The fat burning section has 3 great ingredients but are really lacking in content plus lacking any further back up from other ingredients.

Lest we move on to the fact this is a proprietary blend shit storm with a not too amazing dosing recommendation.

There is also a warning on the label stating not to operate machinery or drive a car whilst using this product, so that means you cannot do you day-to-day activities! So you must sit in a locked room as if you are withdrawing from a heroin addiction, mental!

Conclusion:

This product has 2 roles, to boost testosterone levels and burn fat, the problem being for each side of the product there just is not the required number of ingredients nor the amount of ingredients.

What makes me wonder of its effectiveness is that there is more D-Aspartic Acid alone in 2 very good testosterone boosters alone that what we get from this product attempting 2 jobs. It just does not stack up, it is spread too thinly to work, notwithstanding the dreaded proprietary blend which masks the exact content of each ingredient.

This sounds like a great idea, it sounds convenient and effective but it is anything but. I trialed a fat burner and testosterone boosting stack not long ago, read about the results, you will be surprised.