iForce Nutrition Dexaprine 60 Tabs

Highly rate this product. I had amazing energy and was in a great mood. My appetite, which i have always struggled with, was totally suppressed! Would always recommend. Try half a tab when you wake up and half around 2pm.

I've never really been much of a fan of fat burners, I tend to just cut calories and up my cardio to cut weight, and this tends to lead me to losing around 0.5-0.8kg a week. This is with reasonably strict dieting and at least one hour of 70-80% effort of cardio a day and my usual strength training. When I tried Dexaprine in a sample,  I tried the whole caplet upon waking and I must admit it blew my head off! I instantly felt like I'd taken numerous scoops of Jack3d, and my whole body felt warmer. I decided then that on my next cut I'd buy a 60 tab supply (Though I'd have preferred 30 tabs for half the price!).

I made the right choice, the rate of my body fat loss increased to around 1-1.2kg a week, and I hardly lost an ounce of muscle - which is impressive at around 12% bodyfat when you're body loves to eat muscle away! 

HOWEVER! As anyone with an interest in fitness will know, with every up comes a down, and Dexaprine is no exception. I'm a self confessed cardio lover, as I'm training to be a Royal Marines Officer, so I keep good track of my heart rate and the rate I burn calories per hour. Usually I can work at around 900kcal/hr on a stationary bike at around 145bpm. But when I was on Dexaprine my heart rate skyrocketed, which was concerning and I would tend to ease up a bit so I didn't go into cardiac arrest - leading to my CV conditioning slowing down a bit. Also, on days I did circuit training or worked a number of muscle groups in the one session, the fabled 'Afterburn' effect was amplified to uncomfortable levels, my body felt like it was going to melt away!

Hi, took the Dexaprine (one capsule) first thing in the morning on an empty stomache as suggested. OMG did this product work. It suppressed my appetite all day so had to devise a eating plan around it. Small amounts of healthy chicken, rice etc every 3-4 hours. 

My gym workout was better with more thermogenic sweating than normal. 

Good advice is to drink lots of water, at least 1.5 litres. 

Downside. I had taken 1 capsule due to being used to taking Epherdrine etc. but this made me feel sick around mid afternoon to the extent i had to make myself sick. 

The next morning i took half a capsule which suited me very well. Still had the appetite suppresent effect but no sickness feeling. 

I can safely say i will not be using other stimulants etc. now i have found these. Two months supply for £30 is great value, even better value if you only take half a capsule at times. 

Do yourself a favour and buy some, you won't regret it. 

just waring you 1/2 a tablet to start otherwise that little sleep you do get becomes even less, if i take 1 tablet sometimes in the gym i get very close to blacking out. and dont forget to eat as i did on the first few day.

The claims (in a nutshell) for Dexaprine

Instant Energy Rush
Reduced Appetite & Cravings
Euphoric Mood Enhancement
Lasts All Day Long
2 Month Supply
Only One Pill Per Day
8 hour half life
Actively targets fat cells
I will cover each of these in my product review.


Review
I have to say from the start that I was sceptical about the claims made for Dexaprine. I have tried a number of fat burners in the past, and with the exception of pharma ECA, Yohimbine and clenbuterol, I have never been fully convinced that I would not have lost just as much with just cardio and diet on its own. So I approached this trial with a healthy does of scepticism.

The instructions say that you should assess your tolerance of the product by taking 1/2 a caplet. Worth noting at this point that the product is unusual in that it comes as a bright green hard caplet rather than a capsule - this allows it to be fairly easily broken, to tailor the dosages. Also note that at the start of my Dex cycle I was weighing in at 100Kg, and running probably around 22% BF (from callipers).

So like the fool that I am I took a whole one on the first day about 40 mins before training (I train early morning, fasted, and always do cardio to finish). By the time I got to the gym I could feel myself starting to heat up, and a general sense of 'bring it on'. By the time I had finished the workout, and my cardio, I was drenched and my resting heart rate was around 120. I also had the mild shakes. Visible if I held my hand up, a little like the shakes you get on clen. It took about another 4 hours for the effects to fully wear off, and me return to some semblance of normality.

While this was not ideal, it was bearable so continued with it at this dose for the next 7 days. I had no real sleep disturbances, above and beyond what I would consider normal. However drive and focus was improved noticeably by around day 4 or 5. Additionally - which was very useful for me, my appetite was nicely suppressed. Given my overall goal is fat / weight loss this made it significantly easier to stick to my calorie deficit diet. This however would not be ideal for anyone looking to reduce fat, but keep calories up at maintenance or higher.

You need to drink plenty of water on this stuff, and keep an eye on urine colouration. I had to basically drink almost constantly - in excess of 8 litres a day to keep myself hydrated to levels where I was happy.

At around day 7 I was starting to notice some small diminishing in the effect that the Dex was having, and so thought I would conduct some experiments to try and validate claims around half life, and dosing. As previously stated I was taking one capsule a day at around 6:15 - on my way to the gym. For the next two days I dosed an additional 1/4 caplet at the same time, and for the next two days an additional 1/2 caplet. Whilst my plan was to go higher than this, the effects were too much. On 1.25 caplets my resting heart rate 30 mins after exercise was 135 (ish) - this was about 3 hours after taking it, and on 1.5 it was around 150. At 45 years old - I figured 80% max heart rate was as high as I wanted to go.

I then dropped down to 1 a day again for 4 days, and returned to my 'normal' 30 min rates as previously listed at 120. In order to calculate what the half life was I dosed as follows:
6 am - 1 caplet
2 pm - 0.5 caplet

Note that this is above the recommended dosing for Dex, and given the effectes would not necessarily recommend it.

As a quick explanation for those unclear - half life is the time it takes for the levels of a substance to reduce by 50% in your body. As an example for ECA it is about 4 hours. So after 4 hours you have 50% of the original dose left, after 8 hours you have 25% (50% of 50%), after 12 hours 12.5% (50% of 50% of 50%) etc.

By day 4 my resting rate 30 mins after training was 140, which I reckon - given the unscientific initial trials I did - makes the dose in my body at that time about 1 1/3 caplets. This equates to a half life (for me) of 8-9 hours. For anyone that wants to see the calculations for this I have an Excel sheet I can email you - just PM me your email address. I continued this dose for about 10 days until the raised heart rate was concerning me a little.

This then took me through to about week 4 of my cycle. At this point I also noticed that my sleep was basically screwed. I was lucky if I got 2-3 hours a night. For reference my normal amount when training is 5 (ish).

I then dropped the dosage back to 1 caplet per day, and was still experiencing the appetite suppression, and drive/focus, however the shakes had disappeared. This would tend to indicate that the action on the alpha receptors was being diminished as they became down-regulated, as there was less Epinephrine floating around.

I continued the dosage for a further 2 weeks at which point I stopped.


The Results.
The important stuff I guess for those considering it. My starting weight was 100Kg and 22% BF. My finishing weight six weeks later was 94.5Kg and 18% BF, so had lost about 1.5Kg of muscle (or muscle + water). This is higher than I would normally expect to achieve in a similar time frame, In the last 12 months with Cardio, I have been losing about 0.5Kg per week. This was closer to 1Kg per week, and not far off what I get from pharma ECA. I did bounce back a little after finishing it, but still the losses were above what I would consider normal for me.


My Recommendation
Dexaprine certainly seems to do what it says on the tin. I have been very impressed by this product and would recommend it to people. However I am fortunate in that Alpha-Antagonist stimulants such as Dex and ECA do not give me any anxiety type side effects. If you suffer from these give Dex a very wide berth. Its extended half-life would make your life very unpleasant I would imagine.

Additionally, I would avoid this if you have any heart issues. The raised heart rate was very real for me, and got to slightly worrying levels at one point. Anyone with known issues could be causing themselves unnecessary problems.

Dont underestimate the potency of this product, 1 cap a day - either all in the morning, or half in the morning and half early afternoon will be fine. Don't take it too late in the day or you will not sleep. I would also recommend assessing your tolerance, I know for some people 1 caplet is too much and can cause nausea, so start on 1/2 initially (and early in the morning) and work upwards if you are OK with that initial dose.

Don't use longer than 4-6 weeks, and you will need 4 weeks off after it to get the alpha receptors back to normal.

The appetite suppression is very real, and for me was a great side effect, however I can see this being a problem for some people.

The final claim in the list I posted at the top of this review claims that Dex actively targets fat-cells. This is probably true. But then again it is true for most alpha-antagonist substances (ECA, Yohimbine, Rauwolscine and Synephrine) as the receptors they target are in higher concentrations in fat cells, particularly the long term fat cells in the abdominal and gluto-femoral regions. Thats Gut and Butt if you didn't know! So this claim can be extended to most fat burners in this class. For more info on the other substances mentioned follow the links in the brackets.


Overall this is a great product, and I will be using it again.