Cutting Gel

[PhatPhil]

I have been looking into using Cutting Gel, but I want to make sure the product is worth using. I have searched the web, but I have not been able to find any sites with legitamite product reviews. If anyone has any personal experiences, I would like to hear them, or if you know of a good supplement review site, I'd like to know the address. Thanks for all the help!!

[Reinier]

i thought that cutting was not permanent, just for a short while and was used like for shows and stuff

[heathj]

http://www.wannabebigforums.com/search.php?s=&action=showresults&searchid=1947&sortby=lastpost&sortorder=descending

[Par Deus]

Cutting Gel's active ingredient is aminophylline:

Aminophylline is a xanthine derivative, similar to caffeine, which is not a particularly potent fat burner. In rat studies, it has shown good thermogenic properties due to blockade of adenosine receptors (which provide one of the negative feedback mechanisms for catecholamine induced thermogenesis) and inhibition of phosphodiesterase (which degrade cyclic AMP) -- but this is at extremely high doses, which would kill a human, so it is not applicable (1,2). At therapuetic doses, only adenosine blockade occurs, which will act to increase norepinephrine levels (3)-- but as you will see norepinephrine stimulates alpha 2 receptors (bad) in addition to beta 2 receptors (good) -- and in stubborn fat, alpha 2's out number beta 2's (4).

Like caffeine, it is a good diuretic (5), which would account for the girth loss in the study they reference, which did not measure actual fat loss (6,7). One study did look at fat depth after use of an aminophylline cream, and no difference was found vs. control (8). As a local diuretic, it might be effective, but as a true fat loss agent, it quite likely is not.

[MWB]

Par! Nice to see you here.