Noxycut Review

Noxycut BottleNoxycut is a diet pill targeted toward men, making the claim that it, “makes your body burn ONLY body fat and [it] will increase your muscle mass!” It’s tough not to question this claim right from the get-go. To lose weight (burn fat), you need to be eating fewer calories than you burn. To gain weight, you must be eating more calories than you burn. It’s just the physiological hard truth. You can’t have your protein shake, and drink it too.

Noxycut’s Ingredient Profile

First off, my hat goes off to Noxycut for including the entire ingredient profile directly on their website. Most diet pill companies (including some that I do actually like) mask the exact ingredient profile with a proprietary blend. Noxycut puts all of their ingredients out there to be scrutinized.

Noxycut breaks down its ingredients as follows:

  • Noxycut’s Fat Burners
    • Caffeine Anhydrous – caffeine is an effective metabolism booster and I discuss it at length in my review of caffeine.
    • Synephrine – Noxycut’s inclusion of Synephrine is also positive. Synephrine has been shown to be an effective stimulant. I reviewed Synephrine in depth as well.
    • Guggulsterones – the amount of Guggulsterones present in Noxycut is too low for it to have any type of effect on cholesterol levels (which is its intention). Also, in the past few years there have been a few studies calling into question the efficacy of guggulsterones as it relates to lowering levels of bad cholesterol12.
    • Cinnamon bark extract – Cinnamon has been used for years to help regulate blood sugar. Does it directly help you lose weight? That question still remains. With little to no research supporting it, the jury is still out on cinnamon’s efficacy.
    • Yohimbe – has been used to treat some sexual side effects caused by the use of some antidepressants, which is probably where Noxycut derives its text that there are positive sexual side effects to using Noxycut. There is no evidence to suggest that Yohimbe is an effective fat burner or that it somehow targets fat tissue.
  • Noxycut’s Testosterone Boosters
    • Tribulus Terrestris – the ability of tribulus terrestris to boost testosterone levels is questionable. One study was particularly interesting:

      Fifteen subjects were randomly assigned to a placebo or tribulus (3.21 mg per kg body weight daily) group. Body weight, body composition, maximal strength, dietary intake, and mood states were determined before and after an 8-week exercise (periodized resistance training) and supplementation period. There were no changes in body weight, percentage fat, total body water, dietary intake, or mood states in either group. Muscle endurance (determined by the maximal number of repetitions at 100-200% of body weight) increased for the bench and leg press exercises in the placebo group (p <.05; bench press +/-28.4%, leg press +/-28.6%), while the tribulus group experienced an increase in leg press strength only (bench press +/-3.1%, not significant; leg press +/-28.6%, p <.05). Supplementation with tribulus does not enhance body composition or exercise performance in resistance-trained males.

    • Eurycoma Longifolia – this is a plant native to Indonesia and Malaysia. There’s been some research (want to read about rats’ sex drive?) done by a group of people supporting Eurycoma Longifolia as a testosterone booster. One study involving humans (and those are the kind we’d like to see more of) in the British Journal of Sports Medicine showed that the plant increased the muscle strength and size of participants when compared to a placebo group.3
    • L-Glutamine is an amino acid used to aid muscle recovery during workouts. The optimal dosage is usually one to two grams per day. Noxycut boasts a very weak offering of 100 mg, hardly enough to have an impact on muscle recovery.
  • Muscle Cell Builders
    • Creatine has been proven over and over again that is an effective supplement for intense muscle building. It works by increasing the amount of short-term “burst” energy available to your muscles. It can also cause cells to retain a bit more water, adding a bit of size, but the noticeable muscular increases will come from your muscles’ ability to lift more weights and subsequent growth. Noxycut’s dosage of creatine is much smaller than the recommended dosage. Also, the absorption of creatine from a capsule vs. effervescently is not nearly as high.
    • Arginine is used in some dietary supplements as it allegedly increases the production of growth hormone. There’s a single study4 out there supporting this. Obviously there needs to be more research done in the area before I can stand behind it as an effective ingredient.

Noxycut’s Moneback Guarantee

Unfortunately, Noxycut does not allow a moneyback guarantee. Why? Their claim is that they offer the lowest prices and, as such, do not need a guarantee. That hardly passes the “muster” test. If the product is truly as effective as Noxycut’s website claims, then they wouldn’t hesitate to offer a moneyback guarantee. Only very rarely would a customer actually want their moneyback if the product really worked. I see this as big confidence-killer with Noxycut and hope they change their policy.

Noxycut Review Conclusion

Noxycut’s ingredient profile contains caffeine at a modest dosage. That will be what burns fat. The creatine, glutamine, and guggulsterones are all at a dosage that is far too low to expect any modest results. The other ingredients lack the clinical research necessary to confidently recommend any inclusion in a diet pill. Noxycut needs to go back to the drawing board and try and not be all things to all people.

  1. Guggulipid Ineffective for Lowering Cholesterol. JAMA.2003;290:765-772 [↩]
  2. Guggulipid Use in Hyperlipidemia. Am J Health-Syst Pharm. 2005;62(16):1690-1692 [↩]
  3. Hamzah S, Yusof A (Oct 2003). “The Ergogenic Effects of Eurycoma Longifolia Jack: A Pilot Study.”. Br. J. Sports Med. 37: 464-70. – Abstract of study listed as item 007 [↩]
  4. Alba-Roth J, Müller O, Schopohl J, von Werder K (1988). “Arginine stimulates growth hormone secretion by suppressing endogenous somatostatin secretion”. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 67 (6): 1186-9. [↩]

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