HOT-ROX...

• Ramps up lipolysis, releasing fat from adipocytes more rapidly than ephedra-based products to the point of no contest.

• Minimizes lipogenesis (fat creation) via increased cAMP and T3.

• Maximizes and sustains metabolism around the clock, turning fat into heat energy, through two powerful mechanisms: Fueling the TCA cycle Stimulating mitochondrial uncoupling

• Provides an inexhaustible supply of the weak-link substrate oxaloacetate and thus keeps the TCA cycle primed for sustained, maximum fat burn.

• Elevates and maintains not only the increased production of T3, but the peripheral conversion of T4 into T3 as well, without suppressing TSH (natural thyroid production).

• Doesn't over stimulate cardiac tissue or raise blood pressure.

• Preserves or even promotes muscle-mass gains.

So if you want maximum fat-burning effects to work continually, around the clock (24/7), HOT-ROX is the perfect supplement for you!

Bottom line, we've made ephedra and the current crop of fat-loss supplements obsolete!

This is definitely not an overstatement.

What makes our invention so valuable and unique? First of all, it's far more effective at burning off body fat than anything that's ever been on the market. Furthermore, unlike ephedra-based formulas, it doesn't down-regulate beta-receptor sites and become ineffective over time.

And get this… It also increases protein synthesis and the natural production of anabolic substrates (in both men and women). In other words, it may actually help to preserve or even build muscle mass.

Even better yet, all of these metabolic benefits are sustained, around the clock, week after week, as long as you continue to take the formula.

We honestly believe that we've developed the fat-loss phenomenon that everyone's been hoping for. Ever since the ripped look's become the passionate desire of every body-conscious individual, there's been a quest for a fat burner that, in addition to continuously melting off adipose tissue, would help to preserve -- even promote -- muscle-mass gains.

And we've done it! Not only that, it's far more effective than any of us involved with the project ever dreamed possible.

The name of our fat-loss phenomenon is HOT-ROX, and there's no doubt in our minds that, after reading what follows, you'll be a believer, too.

While most companies were wailing and gnashing their teeth earlier this year over the loss of ephedra, Biotest was downright happy. The ban on ephedra gave us the opportunity to reeducate the public as to what fat loss was all about. Now that the essentially over-hyped ephedra was gone, we had a captive audience.

Other companies weren't so happy. They panicked and scurried to produce "fat-loss" pills that were weak-kneed combinations of green tea, caffeine and an orange-peel extract called synephrine. For those of you unfamiliar with synephrine, it's been around in the U.S. since the 1940's and it's been scientifically proven to improve carbohydrate metabolism in Blaberus discoidalis, otherwise known as the freakin' cockroach! Too bad studies on humans haven't panned out as well.

Rather than delve in the make-believe, Biotest blew away the supplement world and the pharmaceutical world with the development of a brand new super-thermogenic compound, incorporated in a high-tech gel, that's the "engine" behind HOT-ROX: 3,17-dihydroxy-delta-5-etiocholane-7-one diethyl carbonate, mercifully named A7-E.™

A7-E Super-Thermogenic Gel is to ephedra (or synephrine) what a silicon chip is to stone knives and bearskins. In other words, we're talking light-years advancement in fat-loss technology.

The Supercritical Metabolic Effect
: : thermogenic chain reaction that produces an exponential increase of metabolic rate.

A7-E Gel literally cause a thermogenic chain reaction that sharply ramps up the rate at which fat is burned – called the supercritical metabolic effect – while minimizing the rate at which new fat is stored. It elevates and maintains the production of powerful thyroid hormones that instruct the body to rapidly dump fat.

That Curiously Warm Feeling Means it's Working

While HOT-ROX gives you "that curiously warm feeling," it doesn't over stimulate cardiac tissue or raise blood pressure. That's right, HOT-ROX will almost let you feel the fat burning off you, but your heart won't be doing the "thermogenic hop-scotch" that was common with ephedra.

And get this, while studying the effects of HOT-ROX, we made an accidental discovery about its effects. If you're a student of technology, you might be aware of how penicillin was discovered, or plastic, or Teflon, along with thousands of other inventions or advancements that have improved the quality of human life. All were accidents. All were the fortuitous byproduct of good will, good fortune, and inspiration.

And what we found out about HOT-ROX was no different. While studying the product's fat-torching effects on humans, we found that while subjects were rapidly losing body fat, they were, amazingly, simultaneously gaining lean mass, or muscle!

HOT-ROX does not contain an anabolic agent, nor is it anabolic, per se. Anabolism, however, is a byproduct of its nitrogen-sparing effects.

A7-E Super-Thermogenic Gel

There's another amazing thing about HOT-ROX that we want to talk about. Users who have, because of curiosity, opened up the capsules were surprised to find not a powder, not a liquid, but a pure-white gel. Upon rubbing it between their palms, they were astounded to see it disappear into their skin! This is part of Biotest's phenomenal new Nano-Dispersed Gel technology.

The gel is actually a carrier system that, due to a "stored energy" phenomenon, allows the ingredients in HOT-ROX to be easily, efficiently, and thoroughly absorbed into the digestive tract. There are no fillers or superfluous ingredients. Everything in the formula is an active component. There's never been anything like it before in the supplement business or the pharmaceutical business, but it's just one of the amazing things about HOT-ROX.

Raspberry Ketone: The Fat Slicer

Raspberry ketone (RK) is an aromatic compound found in red raspberries. In other words, it's the stuff that makes raspberries smell like, well, raspberries. Its molecular structure is similar to capsaicin, which is also thermogenic.

However, instead of getting its actions through agonizing beta receptors (like capsaicin), RK causes HSL (hormone-sensitive lipase) to translocate to within the fat cell. HSL is the enzyme that, once inside the fat cell, slices apart fat molecules into various fatty acids in preparation for fat metabolism.

Furthermore, this particular activity is the rate-limiting step in lipolysis within the cell. This means that you cannot have maximum lipolysis without ample supplies of HSL inside the fat cell. And, RK delivers just like Domino's — fast!

SCLAREMAX™ The King of Cyclic AMP

The second novel compound in HOT-ROX is called Sclaremax. Sclaremax is a diterpenoidal lactone found in a plant called Salvia sclarea. It's known to be an extremely potent adenylate cyclase activator, very similar to that of the diterpene derivative, forskolin. In fact, cyclic AMP assays indicate Sclaremax either equals or exceeds the actions of forskolin, but with a much longer active life.

Additionally, like forskolin, Sclaremax stimulates adenylate cyclase independently of beta-2 receptors, which means it has no limitations because it won't down-regulate and it has a higher maximal effect. In other words, the more you take, the greater the effect — day after day after day...

So Sclaremax essentially mimics or acts like TSH — activating adenylate cyclase in the membrane of thyroid cells, which in turn elevates cyclic AMP and eventually leads to thyroid hormones being released. It may also enhance the cyclic AMP response to TSH in thyroid cells as well.

And because Sclaremax produces an accumulation of cyclic AMP, it will also increase nitrogen retention. This means that it will help preserve or even build lean-body mass (muscle) while increasing lipolysis.

Another huge bonus in comparison to ephedra and other beta agonists is that Sclaremax doesn't interact with beta-1 adrenoreceptors and over stimulate cardiac tissue or raise blood pressure. In fact, Sclaremax, in very high doses, exhibits a vasodilatory effect and slightly decreases blood pressure.

Some other benefits of Sclaremax include its antithrombotic and antidepressant effects, as well as its stimulating effect on luteinizing hormone, via cyclic AMP, resulting in the production of additional Testosterone (in males).

To synergize the effects of Sclaremax, we included the methylxanthine caffeine. Caffeine is a potent competitive inhibitor of phosphodiesterase enzyme, which is responsible for the inactivation of cyclic AMP.

In comparison to caffeine, Sclaremax increases the formation of cyclic AMP, whereas caffeine acts to prevent its degradation. In other words, caffeine potentiates the effects of Sclaremax, thus increasing the magnitude of cyclic AMP accumulation.

And since Sclaremax and caffeine increase cyclic AMP, but via different mechanisms and not through the beta receptor, a combination produces a powerful, synergistic effect on lipolysis.

So you can see that, even though A7-E, Sclaremax, guggulsterones, and caffeine have discrete roles in the fat-loss process, they also potentiate one another's activities, making the combination extremely powerful.

We also wanted to utilize compounds in our formula that elevate mood and suppress hunger, especially for carbohydrates. To do this, we included ample amounts of acetyl-L-tyrosine and 5-hydroxy-L-tryptophan to maximize brain levels of norepinephrine, dopamine, and serotonin, all of which tend to decrease while following a calorie-restricted diet.

Maintaining high levels of norepinephrine, dopamine, and serotonin will not only elevate mood and suppress appetite, but:

• Decrease fat storage

• Stimulate oxygen consumption

• Increase resting energy expenditure

• Decrease insulin levels

The HOT-ROX Body Plan

If you've been in this business for any length of time, you know that losing fat while gaining muscle is almost impossible. Too often while "dieting," bodybuilders lose precious muscle. Too often while "bulking" up, bodybuilders gain too much fat.

No more.

Because of the nitrogen-sparing effects of HOT-ROX, you can have the best of both worlds. This isn't just a case of scurrying to find a presumably thermogenic compound and haphazardly combining it with a presumably anabolic compound to make a product that presumably allows you to gain muscle and lose fat (never mind how they might interact or counteract each other!). Nope, HOT-ROX constitutes the real deal; a supplement that's likely as close to a "physique in a bottle" as science will ever achieve.

While future installments of the HOT-ROX Body Plan will highlight all of these innovations in detail, we wanted to give you a taste of some of them now so you could get a head start in really making a difference in the way you look.

Let's consider the HOT-ROX Body Plan Dietary protocol. Did you know that the body is very, very poor at processing dietary carbohydrates that are consumed in the mid to late afternoon or evening? It's true. Studies have shown that the way the normal, healthy body handles these late-ingested carbs is identical to the way a Type II diabetic processes carbohydrates!

Similarly, the body doesn't handle dietary fats all that well in the morning.

The relatively simple answer? Eat your protein/carb meals before noon or 1:00 PM and eat protein/healthy fat meals after 1:00 PM. The only exception to this remarkably effective and easy to accomplish rule is in the post-workout period, when it's acceptable and advisable to ingest carbs and protein.

We'll elaborate on this easy to adopt lifestyle change that will bring you much, much closer to your fat-loss goals in future installments of the HOT-ROX Body Plan.

Other articles will also explain Coach Thibaudeau's provocative training methodologies. In the meantime, try experimenting with an innovative rep scheme that Christian has coined "the tempo-contrast method."

The Tempo-Contrast Method

The next time you do squats or bench (or pretty much any movement), try the following:

We'll explain why these protocols are so revolutionary and so effective for any mass building or fat loss program in subsequent installments, but for now, try them out on your own.