Recently T-Nation announced an upcoming Biotest product called Indigo-3G, a cutting-edge nutrition repartitioning supplement. The claims that they make on this product makes it sound like the magic pill for getting you in the best shape of your life by repartitioning nutrients into muscle instead of fat.
How Does It Work?
The long article goes into details about the effects of the supplement on fat cells, muscle cells, and liver cells, but the entire article can be summarized in the following sentence:
Indigo-3G will tell your body to resist storing fats, oxidize fatty acids, and pull glucose and nutrients into muscle cells.
So pretty much, the more you eat, the more muscles you get.
Where to Get Indigo 3G?
As of 5/20/2011, Biotest just released Indigo 3G to 81 lucky beta testers. It sounds like they have plans to make the pills available for purchase through the T-Nation store as soon as the next 6 weeks (that’s how long an I3G cycle is). The last I’ve heard is that one batch of pills with cost you something like $390 per batch.
As of 7/18/2011, Biotest just announced that they are starting to distribute Indigo 3G. A few things you need to know:
- It seems to be working for the I3G beta testers.
- There is a Three-Bottle minimum on your first purchase.
- There are no refunds.
- It’s $480 for the 3 bottles (6 week cycle)
Ways to Keep Track of Indigo 3G Results?
Here are a few training logs of T-Nation Indigo 3G participants:
Keep an eye out for how they are doing and look at their progress. Also pay special attention if they mention any illnesses after taking I3G.
Don’t Want to Spend That Much Money?
Whenever something this new comes out into the wild, I’d like to wait until enough people try it and read their feedback to make sure it won’t permanently damage me (like make my bleed out of my eyes or something random like that). Also, I’d wait till the thing gets cheaper. I remember when N.O.Xplode first came out and it cost something like $40 per bottle, now you can find it at $25 per bottle when it’s on decent sale.
Until then, I prefer to opt for time-tested (and much cheaper) supplements with plenty of studies done on them. Some supplements that are okay in my book (and you might want to look into taking) are:
- Whey protein
- Vitamins and mineral (I take OptiMen)
- Fish oil supplements
- Choline promoting supplements (like lecithin)
- Creatine (okay in my book, but I personally don’t take it because I don’t want bulk)
I hope this helps, and please think twice and do your research before you put some random stuff into your body.
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Your about the author section states you lost 45lbs and at 18% bodyfat…not very impressive or a measure to even critique a product. I am an avid reader of t-nation however I can boast nearly double your weight loss at 90lbs and my bodyfat is definitely much better than 18%.
As a long time skeptic of Biotest, I can say that their products are quality. I’m not on the I3G teams or whatever, but I can say that the info in the articles they put out and Anaconda and Mag10 work very well compared to whey concentrate/isolate. Even though I like Biotest, I still have to order my bulk CH from eslewhere, but cost aside…I think Biotest is definitely a reputable company among many in the industry.
My other long, long time favorite supplement make is hands down Optimum Nutrition! Love the company and their products for many years. Love the stuff, they have a new Amino Energy product, I really like it.
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First and foremost, congratulations on your weight loss and achieving way below 18% body fat percentage!!
I also believe that t-nation has great articles (I am also an avid reader of t-nation), but I get suspicious whenever websites start promoting products that they make themselves. I guess I’ve been screwed enough in the past to always make me question everything.
I’m glad that you stopped by and spoke your mind (vouched for Biotest) since I’m sure many people will find your comment quite helpful. Optimum Nutrition is so far the only company that I trust 100% (I also love their Amino Energy).
My question for you: how much of your 90 lbs success do you think is attributed to Biotest’s product? I suspect that most of your gains are due to your own hard work and dedication and even if you take a regular whey concentrate/isolate and eat a healthy diet, you’ll get almost as good of results as taking their Anaconda and Mag10.
I guess what I’m saying [to other people] is… supplements are just supplements. Some people who want to take I3G are looking for a miracle pill that will magically turn them into a stud without having to put in any work. If you don’t get disciplined/don’t put in any work and yet take $390 worth of supplements per 6 weeks, you won’t get to your goal any faster than a disciplined guy eating clean and working his butt off.
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