Tapout Sports Take Down Fat Burner

The Tapout Sports Take Down Fat Burner is designed and marketed for the mixed marshal arts crowd – no surprise there considering the maker of the product. But just in case you’re not the leg swingin’, judo choppin’ type don’t you worry: based on the ingredients anybody should be able to take the pill and get similar results.

The Tapout folks, it appears, are branching out are now venturing into the weight loss world and I guess it makes sense for them at some level. MMA athletes need energy and they’re always looking to shed pounds and get cut up.

Let’s take a quick look at the ingredients and see if this product can really deliver on its modest promises to help “boost metabolism and maximize weight loss.”

What’s inside Tapout Take Down Fat Burner?

There’s nothing revolutionary about the formula that drives Tapout Sports Take Down Fat Burner; most of the ingredients are fairly common, which is a major reason why we think just about anybody can take this pill – not just the MMA folks.

The ingredients inside Tapout Sports Take Down Fat Burner are split into three basic blends. The first called the Thermo Blend and contains Citrus Aurantium, caffeine, Green Tea, Capsicum Extract and 7-Keto DHEA.

This blend is probably going to be the most important of the three. From what we can gather Tapout puts a lot of emphasis on the 7 –Keto DHEA. This ingredient works as a metabolite of an adrenal hormone called DHEA, which forms when our bodies produce and metabolize DHEA. The benefits of this process are increased metabolism though thermogenisis. The higher rate of thermogenisis happening, the less likelihood that unwanted fat cells will be sticking around. Pretty good stuff.

Green Tea is also a pretty formidable ingredient. As food is ingested into the body it is synthesized—or transformed—into a substance called triglyceride, which plays a vital role in the overall health of the body. They’re responsible for creating energy for the body. But an excess of these triglycerides can turn in to fat, possibly leading to obesity.  However, Green Tea triggers an enzyme responsible for removing these excess triglycerides from the body.

The second blend is called the Ergogenic Blend and contains just two ingredients: White Willow Bark and Pyruvate. White Willow Bark is a natural source of Salicylic Acid, which normalizes the skin’s shedding process and helps to prevent pore-clogging but really doesn’t play much of a role in weight loss.

The last is called the Energy Blend and contains basic vitamin supplements plus Glucuronolactone and Taurine. The vitamins present the best chance at weight loss even though they should be considered minimal at best.

Now the problem with these blends is not in the ingredients themselves. Many of the above listed ingredients are some of the best on the market. The problem is each of them needs to be used in their proper amounts for them to effective.

If they’re not, they won’t be effective. Why spend all that money on a product that is less then effective? Clearly, that’s not the best use of your money.  After years in this business we’ve come to realize that if you don’t know dosage amounts, you really don’t know anything at all. It’s not uncommon for some weight loss pills to claim a number of top-notch ingredients, only to include effective amounts in just a couple of the ingredients. The others, or the short-changed ingredients, are simply window dressing.

They do this because it saves them money – by reducing the expensive ingredient they save money but then charge the consumer the same dollar amount under the assumption that all the ingredients used included use their effective amounts.

This is a common tactic by weight loss pills and is always something to consider when you see blends used in weight loss formulas. Because of this we’re very cautions about Tapout Sports Take Down Fat Burner.

The good

  • Decent ingredients
  • Not expensive

The bad

  • Don’t list amounts in blends
  • Uses giant blends to house ingredients

The way we see it

We like the ingredients, just not the way Tapout chose to put them in the formula. Good ingredients can get lost in blends and for that reason we tend to be a little skeptical of products that base the entirety of their formula on blends. Because we don’t exactly know what is going into the pill if we’re going to err it’ll be on the side of caution and suggest you spend your money elsewhere.