Shredded Steel Sample Pack – Extreme Weight Loss Solution* (3 Per Order)

Why Shredded Steel?

“Move more. Eat less.” has been standard advice to those seeking to shed unwanted body fat and improve the body composition for decades. Unfortunately, for many people just moving more and eating less hasn’t worked as well as it was initially believed.

You see, our bodies crave homeostasis. They like the way they are, and they’re going to fight tooth and nail to stay that way, cardio and calorie restriction be damned. This leaves you confused, angry, hungry, and above all extremely de-motivated to continue on your weight loss journey.

While increasing physical activity and decreasing the amount of food you eat will help, to blast that unwanted body fat for good, you need to enlist the help of a premium grade fat-shredding agent.

What you need is Shredded Steel™!

What is Shredded Steel™?

Shredded Steel™ is a powerful fat burning, thermogenic weight loss supplement scientifically formulated to help you shed unwanted body fat. Each serving of Shredded Steel™ delivers a precise combination of research-backed, all natural compounds that boost metabolism, accelerate fat burning, increase energy levels, and suppress appetite.

Why is Shredded Steel™ Better?

Shredded Steel™ takes a comprehensive and holistic approach to solving your fat loss dilemma by using a multi-pronged attack on unwanted body fat. Included in Shredded Steel™ is an arsenal of premium quality ingredients that attacks weight loss from multiple fronts, including compounds that increase fat mobilization, enhance fat oxidation, and boost energy expenditure.

Furthermore, unlike other fat burners, Shredded Steel™ doesn’t rely on a proprietary cocktail of stimulants that only make you think the product is working when in reality you’re left feeling jittery and on edge. Instead, Shredded Steel™ uses a combination of caffeine and TeaCrine® to provide smooth, sustained energy that lasts for hours all while avoiding the jitters and crash of other weight loss supplements.

What’s in Shredded Steel™?

L-Carnitine Tartrate

L-Carnitine supplements have been a mainstay in the weight loss industry for well over a decade. They were known as one of the first stimulant-free fat loss ingredients to be included in weight loss formulas.

While carnitine does support the fat burning process — it acts as the “shuttle” that transports fatty acids into the mitochondria to be burned for energy. The problem with most carnitine supplements though, is that they use the freeform version of carnitine, L-Carnitine, which has terrible bioavailability (~14-20%). [1] That means supplementing with regular L-Carnitine doesn’t do a whole lot for helping burn body fat.

However, L-Carnitine L-Tartrate is an incredibly bioavailable form of carnitine proven in scientific studies to support weight loss, athletic performance, and even recovery from exercise.

Research notes that L-Carnitine L-Tartrate increases fat oxidation during exercise, which has the added effect of sparing muscle glycogen, allowing you to save it for later in the workout when it’s needed for the final push.

Moreover, L-Carnitine L-Tartrate also increases the efficiency of your anabolic hormones (like testosterone) and reduces exercise-induced muscle damage, which aids recovery. [2,3]

Betaine

Also known as trimethylglycine (TMG), betaine is a metabolite of choline (an essential nutrient needed for brain health) that is naturally occurring in beets. Betaine serves many vital functions in the body, but none is more important than its role as a “methyl donor.” Betaine contains three methyl groups and donates one of them to methylate homocysteine into the essential amino acid methionine. Betaine also has been noted to impart many other health benefits, including improving cognition and cardiovascular function as well as supporting liver health. [4]

Betaine has also been shown to support athletic performance, increasing strength, power, and lean mass. And, it’s even been shown to reduce body fat while increasing muscle mass, too. [5]

How does betaine support fat loss? A separate study in animals suggests that the way betaine aids fat loss is by inhibiting the growth of fat cells. [6] More muscle and less fat from a single ingredient? We’ll take that any day of the week!

KSM-66® Ashwagandha

A staple of Ayurveda, Ashwagandha is a root traditionally used to increase energy levels, relieve stress, and improve concentration. It also goes by the name Withania somnifera and has been identified by researchers as a potent adaptogen.

Adaptogens are natural compounds (plants, herbs, etc.) that improve the body’s ability to encounter, adapt, and respond to stress.

As you’ve probably experienced for yourself, dieting can be incredibly stressful from both a physical and mental standpoint. Reducing your food intake robs you of the energy to perform optimally mentally and physically, and there’s also the constant mental melee going on in your head of whether or not you should have that little “cheat” here and there.

Ashwagandha helps improve your ability to navigate the vast array of stressors you’re faced with on a daily basis while dieting, and some other research has shown that it supports weight management in the face of chronic stress. [7]

Shredded Steel™ includes the premier form of Ashwagandha extract in KSM-66. This patented extract is standardized for 5% withanolides and is widely regarded as the top ashwagandha extract on the market backed by numerous clinical trials demonstrating its ability to alleviate stress, optimize hormone levels, and support fat loss.[8] Some research even indicates that KSM-66® improves thyroid function[9], which as you probably know, thyroid function plays a key role in healthy metabolism.

Shredded Steel™ contains the clinically backed dose of 300 mg of KSM-66 in every serving of Shredded Steel™.

Caffeine Anhydrous

Caffeine is a powerhouse, plain and simple. It’s the robust foundation on which all great weight loss supplements are built, and Shredded Steel™ is no exception.

Caffeine ignites the central nervous system, setting off a flurry of activity that increases energy levels, boosts mood, and stimulates the metabolism,[10,11] helping you burn more calories and feel better while doing it.

Caffeine even helps reduce your appetite, eliminate the temptation to cheat and ruin your diet.

When you’re dieting, you want caffeine.

Shredded Steel™ delivers 150mg of pure, unadulterated caffeine anhydrous per serving. This is the perfect amount of caffeine to activate lipolysis, heighten focus and motivation, boost energy levels, and quash appetite.

TeaCrine®

A common complaint with many over-the-counter diet pills is that they give an intense, albeit brief, energy rush followed by the annoying crash, where you feel so drained mentally and physically that you have zero motivation to do anything.

Shredded Steel™ circumvents those nuisances with TeaCrine®.

Developed by Compound Solutions, TeaCrine® is a chemical cousin of caffeine derived from Kucha. TeaCrine® provides smooth, long-lasting energy that pairs well with the immediate energy burst of caffeine to form an energy high that lasts for hours on end.

One other huge benefit to TeaCrine® is that it does NOT come with the tolerance build up that caffeine does [12], meaning that you get the same boost in energy, mood, and focus without having to increase the amount you consume continually.

Including it in Shredded Steel™ makes for an energy experience like no other and is one more reason why Shredded Steel™ should be your fat burner of choice.

Evodiamine Fruit Extract

Derived from Evodiae Fructus, a member of the Tetradium genus of plants, Evodiamine is an alkaloid similar to capsaicin (the tongue-numbing compound in chiles) that exerts a prominent thermogenic effect when consumed, similar to what you’d experience when consuming fiery chile peppers.

But that’s not all.

Research has shown that evodiamine also inhibit fat uptake. [13,14] What this means, is that supplementing with evodiamine may reduce the amount of fat stored in the body, using it instead for energy production.

Alluvia™ Purple Tea

One of the newest, and most intriguing, ingredients to enter the world of weight loss supplements is Alluvia™ Purple Tea. Derived from a new crossbred variety Camellia sinensis, the same leaf from which black, white, and green teas are derived, Alluvia contains red and purple anthocyanins, similar to those found in dark-colored fruits, that impart a wide range of health benefits.

Researchers have noted that Purple Tea possesses greater antioxidant activity than other teas, with a radical scavenging rate of 51% compared to just 34.3% for green tea. *[15]

So, what’s a fancy type of tea doing in a supplement designed for fat loss?

Early studies on Alluvia Purple Tea have documented anti-obesity actions, reduction of conditions that lead to metabolic syndrome, and anti-aging benefits for the skin. Two human clinical studies to support weight loss, decreases in body mass index, fat mass, hip size, waist size, and subcutaneous-fat thickness while improving body composition and lean body mass. [16,17]

Researchers believe that one of the primary ways Alluvia exerts its fat loss benefits is through the inhibition of lipase, the enzyme that breaks down fats for digestion. By preventing your body from properly digesting fats, it passes through and out of the GI system intact, meaning you derive very little, if any, calories from the fat you eat. *

Cognizin® Citicoline

Anyone who’s ever dieted knows full well the extreme lack of focus and mental energy that accompanies a reduction in food intake. It’s harder to “get going” from a productivity standpoint, and when you do finally get your thoughts in order, it’s difficult to stay focused and “in the zone” no matter how tight the deadline is. That’s where Cognizin® Citicoline comes in handy.

Cognizing® is a patented form of citicoline, a highly bioavailable form of choline that’s been shown in clinical testing to increase brain energy, attention, focus, and memory.[18,19] Cognizin® helps “turn the lights on” in your mind so that it’s operating faster and more efficiently so that you can get more work done, better, while on a reduced calorie diet.

But, that’s not all.

Additional research has noted that this powerful nootropic (brain booster) also supports weight loss. A study conducted in humans indicated that supplementing with Cognizin® Citicoline increased functional brain responses to food stimuli. [20] Researchers noted that this increased activation was associated with declines in appetite ratings. In other words, Cognizin® may help reduce food cravings and the temptations to eat certain “naughty” foods when you see them.

Paradoxine® Grains of Paradise

Get ready to feel the burn with Paradoxine®, as this ingredient creates a thermogenic effect like few others!

Paradoxine® is a premium-grade, patented extract included to help dial-up your metabolic furnace. Grains of Paradise has a long history of use as an herbal remedy, and recently it’s become one of the more prominent stim-free fat loss ingredients.

Clinical studies have documented that supplementation with Paradoxine® helps “brown” white fat. This “browning” effect increases fat mobilization from adipose (fat) tissue, boosting energy expenditure. The result is greater calorie burning and accelerated fat loss, visceral fat in particular. [21,22,23]

Yohimbe

Inevitably, when dieting, everyone comes across those last bits of “stubborn” fat that won’t seem to get lost, no matter how much dieting or cardio-ing they do. Yohimbe is one of the most well-known and effective ingredients for shedding that “stubborn” body fat, and it’s one of the tried and true supplements dieters turn to when looking to drop those “last five pounds.”

Yohimbe is a potent central nervous system stimulant and alpha-2-adrenergic receptor antagonist. Fat cells have two types of receptors called alpha and beta receptors. In layman’s terms, when alpha receptors are stimulated, they block fatty acid release (halting fat burning), while beta receptors activation leads to the freeing of fatty acids, allowing them to be oxidized (or “burned”) for energy.

Yohimbine “clogs” the alpha receptor ports on fat cells, allowing the fat burning catecholamines like epinephrine and norepinephrine to dock on beta receptors, liberating stored body fat to be burned for energy. [28]

Additionally, Yohimbine also has been shown to reduce appetite, ramp up energy expenditure, and enhance lipolysis. [29,30,31,32]

Bioperine®

Bioperine® is the industry-leading black pepper extract (standardized to 95% piperine) that is included to improve the absorption of other nutrients its paired with in supplements. [33] The manner in which Bioperine® improves absorption is that it inhibits certain enzymes in the by which would otherwise lead to faster metabolization of the compounds contained in Shredded Steel™. Therefore, by increasing the integrity and “lifespan” of these compounds in the body, Bioperine® supports increased absorption, uptake, and utilization.

Additionally, Bioperine® may also support fat loss by increasing thermogenesis. Various studies have shown that ingestion of piperine, the active component of Bioperine®, stimulates the release of thermogenic hormones, known as catecholamines. [34] Increased amounts of these hormones, such as noradrenaline, increased fat burning in the body.

Iodine (Kelp Derived)

The thyroid gland is one of the least discussed aspects of fat loss, yet it plays one of the most significant roles in the proper functioning of your metabolism. In other words, if your thyroid isn’t functioning optimally, good luck trying to lose body fat!

Iodine is an essential trace mineral that plays a crucial role in proper thyroid function [35,36], and subsequently metabolism. Many individuals are deficient in this mineral because it’s not found abundantly in many common foods, except seaweed and some seafood. To solve this growing iodine deficiency, food manufacturers started adding it to salt, creating iodized salt.

Shredded Steel™ includes 150mcg of iodine derived from a type of seaweed called kelp to support proper thyroid function and cognition, [36] aiding metabolism and energy production for enhanced fat loss.

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