{"id":1152,"date":"2014-05-17T23:01:29","date_gmt":"2014-05-18T03:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bodybuilding.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=1152"},"modified":"2016-01-04T11:23:46","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T16:23:46","slug":"usp-labs-tt750-tribulus-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/bodybuilding\/usp-labs-tt750-tribulus-review.html","title":{"rendered":"USP Labs TT750 (Tribulus) Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1153 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/bodybuilding\/files\/2014\/05\/girls-300x177.jpg\" alt=\"Nika and Sheeba\" width=\"300\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/bodybuilding\/files\/2014\/05\/girls-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/bodybuilding\/files\/2014\/05\/girls-1024x604.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/bodybuilding\/files\/2014\/05\/girls.jpg 1941w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>So it&#8217;s Saturday night, and my girlfriend&#8217;s out hanging with the girls, and my girls and I are chillin&#8217; at home (that&#8217;s them over on the right; Sheba and Nika, my German Shepherds). So one thing leads to another and before I know it I&#8217;m over surfing on BodyBuilding.com, checking out what&#8217;s new and exciting.<\/p>\n<p>And lo and behold, I didn&#8217;t have to look too long before I stumbled over a &#8220;gem&#8221; &#8211; it&#8217;s something new from USP Labs; a product called TT750.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s slated for release in May, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Now TT750 is a tribulus product, and as you know, tribulus is a normally sold as a natural &#8220;test-booster&#8221;, despite the fact it does nothing to boost testosterone, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/bodybuilding\/tribulus-review.html\" target=\"_blank\">as demonstrated in numerous clinical trials<\/a>. (It may, however, may work as a libido booster).<\/p>\n<p>Yawn, right?<\/p>\n<p>But wait, intrepid reader, don&#8217;t leave just yet. See, this product is different. How? Well here&#8217;s how USP Labs puts it..<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>While they spend time focusing on extracting for Protodioscin, we&#8217;ve unlocked this gem\u2026Tribulosin<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve managed to uncover a special constituent of Tribulus called Tribulosin\u2026 In fact, Tribulosin is so rare it&#8217;s only found in miniscule quantities in a few of the world&#8217;s Tribulus plants according to a study that measured this&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Does this mean anything to you?<\/p>\n<p>It shouldn&#8217;t, because it&#8217;s nonsense. I&#8217;ve heard of &#8220;baffling them with BS&#8221;, but this takes the cake.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, what does &#8220;uncovered&#8221; mean, exactly? That&#8217;s some serious weasel-wording, right there. Do they mean &#8220;discovered?&#8217; It can&#8217;t be, because this constituent of tribulus <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/12587699\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has been known about for years<\/a>. (Hell, tribulosin-products have even been <a href=\"http:\/\/anabolicminds.com\/forum\/nutraplanet\/109176-supersaponins-aka-stronger.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pitched<\/a> before!).<\/p>\n<p>Does mean there&#8217;s clinical evidence that&#8217;s been unearthed, dusty and mold-encrusted, from some forgotten vault somewhere? Something that shows tribulosin helps build slabs of rock-hard build muscle?<\/p>\n<p>Nope. Not that I can find.<\/p>\n<p>So what does it mean?<\/p>\n<p>Your guess is as good as mine.<\/p>\n<p>As far as I can tell, the incredible benefits of this new standardized version of tribulus are entirely based on USP&#8217;s customer feedback, and as we know, anecdotal data means very little. To be fair, positive feedback for tribulosin-based tribulus products is not restricted to USP&#8217;s product alone &#8211; I was able to find it for other such products as well without looking too hard. Genuine or not, it&#8217;s still anecdotal evidence.<\/p>\n<p>So what is tribulosin good for?<\/p>\n<p>Well, as far as I can tell, it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/22115037\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has heart-protective effects for rats<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However &#8211; and this is important &#8211; these were not feeding studies (where the compound was given orally) &#8211; so there&#8217;s no data to support the oral bioavailability of tribulosin. In other words, taking it by mouth may do nothing at all.<\/p>\n<p>What about the libido-boosting effects of tribulus?<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/12127159\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">animal based studies<\/a> verifying tribulus&#8217; aphrodisiac effect were performed on rats using a &#8220;standardized for protodioscin&#8221; product.<\/p>\n<p>Not tribulosin.<\/p>\n<p>But is it possible that tribulosin possesses similar characteristics?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s possible, I suppose&#8230; they are related chemically.<\/p>\n<p>But before you go racing out to buy TT750, two things&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If you look at the label of this product you&#8217;ll see nothing referencing the tribulosin content. For all the hype about the product being enriched for tribulosin, the company seems strangely reluctant about revealing how much is even there.<\/li>\n<li>If you check USP Labs web site at at the time of this writing (mid-May, 2014), TT750 isn&#8217;t even listed for sale. There may be a reason for that; the tribulus used in this product was sourced from a company called &#8220;Stiriti Ayur Therapies Pvt. Ltd&#8221; (this is noted on the label). If you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessdata.fda.gov\/cms_ia\/importalert_259.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">scan down this FDA import alert<\/a> for pesticides (hit Ctrl-f on your keyboard and then type in TT750) you&#8217;ll find one for this same company AND TT750 for multiple pesticides. So it&#8217;s quite possible they don&#8217;t have the raw material to continue production, or haven&#8217;t found a reliable source. Regardless, it&#8217;s a point that emphasizes an important truth; just because a product is naturally sourced, doesn&#8217;t necessarily mean it&#8217;s safe to take.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bottom line?<\/p>\n<p>Contamination aside, there&#8217;s no solid evidence on which to recommend this product.<\/p>\n<p>If you experiment, you are doing so on the basis of advertising hype and unsubstantiated comments from unidentified people on the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>Have you used TT750 or a similar product? Let us know what it did for you in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it&#8217;s Saturday night, and my girlfriend&#8217;s out hanging with the girls, and my girls and I are chillin&#8217; at home (that&#8217;s them over on the right; Sheba [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/bodybuilding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/bodybuilding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/bodybuilding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/bodybuilding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/bodybuilding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1152"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/bodybuilding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2003,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/bodybuilding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions\/2003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/bodybuilding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/bodybuilding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/bodybuilding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/bodybuilding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}