Animal Cuts Review

What about the Animal Cuts Ingredients?

Animal Cuts IngredientsLike other Animal products (see animal stak) they break their ingredients down into subcategories, ie those that are for craving suppression, cortisol inhibiting complex, those that are for energy levels, their stimulant complex and so on.

As a stimulant, animal cuts is off to a strong start with caffeine anhydrous in plentiful supply, along with the likes of kola nut, although we could do without the raspberry ketones as they've been all but completely debunked at this point.

The problem with these complexes however, is that they overlap, for example, capsimax (via cayenne pepper) is not in the metabolic boosting section, it's in the bioavailability section, which if you were to take the metabolic complex by itself it would look pretty weak.So to break down the ingredients we liked and didn't, we have to take the complex as a whole. If you're looking for a quick version before we go into a lot of detail. Has a lot of good stuff, misses out on some key vitamins (b6 & b12), doesn't have glucomannan, which is a huge failure. 

But, as a water shedding complex, it's really quite good, containing dandelion root, juniper berry fruit and hydrangea root which have all been proven to work as diuretics. Making this a great supplement for the week running up to a photo shoot or body building competition, but not something you can stay on for a long period of time.

The nootropic complex, feels unnecessary for anyone not at single digit body fat now having issues with focus[3].Individually the ingredients break down as follows:

Caffeine anhydrous: Gives you energy, raises metabolic rate, and increases NEAT (the amount of calories you burn through none exercise related activity). We all know how caffeine works.

Kola nut: Kola Nut is not only a stimulant, but seems to increase baseline metabolic rate, it's not commonly used as most studies are animal based although initial human trials look positive[4].

Yerba mate: Another form of caffeinated beverage extract, seems to be a mild appetite suppressant, but low efficacy.

Raspberry ketones: Complete debunked for and effective use in humans, very mild improvements at best, this is an outdated ingredient.

Coleus forskohlii: This seems to work for obese patients, however, there aren't many studies on healthy individuals, it seems to reduce metabolic reduction when someone is in a calorie deficit[5].

Evodiamine: Looks good in animal studies, but nothing so far suggests it works in humans.Coffee bean extract: Solid fat burner ingredient, reduces fat intake, suppresses appetite coffee bean extract is in a lot of good fat burners.

Green tea leaf extract: Similar to coffee bean extract, green tea extract is a pretty standard ingredient, it is usually a bit of a bulk up ingredient though and never the focus of the best fat burners.

Oolong tea extract: Minimal studies, looks similar to green tea leaf extract, seems to just be an added extra set of words to put on the package.

Other tea extracts: Same as Oolong tea extract.

L - Tyrosine: Theoretically it can help boost metabolism, but the proof for this is loose, that said it does boost dopamine production, which helps reduce cravings. It's a precursor (your body uses this to make something else) to phenylalanine, which is effective at increasing metabolism.

Olive leaf extract: This has been very effective in animal trials and human studies look promising in terms of preventing the absorption of fat into the body. Like a lot of the ingredients in our animal stak review, it's a maybe.

Salvia Officinalis: Only trailed in mice, seems to work for them, but that doesn't mean it will do much for humans.Dandelion root: - This is great for shedding water weight, and one of the highlights in our animal cuts review[6]. 

Uva Ursi Leaf: Negligible evidence to support it being effective. We think this one's just another filler for the names list on the back of animal cuts proprietary blend.

Hydrangea Root: Another known diuretic, again it's helpful if you're looking to strip water weight to look as lean as possible, but walking around dehydrated for a long period of time is obviously not good, whether it's caused by natural ingredients or not.

Buchu Leaf: Known for reducing bloating and water retention, it's a solid addition to animal cuts water shedding complex.Juniper berry fruit: Animal cuts water shedding complex, is the bit where it continues to shine. Another known diuretic, so a solid inclusion. 

Celery Seed: Lastly in the water weight loss section is celery seed and again seems to be legitimately effective[7].

The Nootropic Complex: We're not going to go into this in too much detail, yes the stuff in here is good for focus, but it's a "meh" we wouldn't recommend this if it was a stand alone nootropic, it could assist with some of the dieting brain fog, but we'd rather have the option to take a dedicated nootropic over an 18 pill stak from animal cuts. 

Ashwagandha root extract: An unusual one for a fat burner, we tend to see this more in mood related supplements, that said, if your goal is to hit very low body fat percentages it's definitely helpful.