Savvy supplement buyers want to know the skinny on the supplements they take, so asking about supplement manufacturers’ experience level and marketing practices is logical as well as smart. Determining that the manufacturer of the supplement you’re considering buying has a good reputation and uses scientifically proven ingredients is essential these days if you want to be sure you’ll be getting the best.

When it comes to getting straight answers and all the facts, you can’t do better than Nutrex Research, which produces four main products that help to build body mass: Lipo-6, Niox, Vitrix, and Vitargo CGL.

The company values its well-deserved reputation for producing only the finest supplements. Unlike many other supplement purveyors who hide behind the term “proprietary blend” to avoid revealing just what’s in their products, Nutrex clearly lists all ingredients and ingredient amounts on its labels for all to see.

Nutrex was started five years ago by Jeff McCarrell and Jens Ingenohl, who have a combined total of 20 years’ experience in the bodybuilding nutritional industry. The team is determined to provide the highest possible consumer benefits by using only ingredients that scientific studies have demonstrated offer medical benefits. It’s this combination of expertise, use of high quality-ingredients, and reliance on medical research, that has made Nutrex a leader in nutritional supplements.

For example, Nutrex’s Lipo-6 contains e and z guggulsterones, which have been shown to help reduce weight and lower cholesterol. Guggulsterones come from the resin of the guggul tree, which for nearly 2,000 years has been used to treat a variety of medical conditions. Unlike statin drugs, which can have dangerous side effects, guggulsterones work by blocking a substance that stops your body from ridding itself of excess cholesterol. Guggul has also been shown to lower fasting blood sugar, blood pressure, and insulin levels, and to have an anti-inflammatory effect as well. To provide its customers with more choices, Nutrex also offers timed-release and ephedra-free versions of Lipo-6.

Vitrix, designed to boost the body’s own natural testosterone production into overdrive, contains 1,000 mg of super-potent liquid German tribulus terrestris per serving; researchers in Bulgaria and Russia found that this substance increases levels of testosterone and DHEA. Combined with a blend of phytonutrients in easily absorbed liquid capsule form, Vitrix scientifically supports the sport of bodybuilding by increasing the body’s stores of muscle-building testosterone.

Unlike many supplements that leave your body before being fully absorbed, Nutrex’s Niox provides anabolic-boosting nitric oxide (NO) in a formulation with a 100 percent absorption rate.

Niox comes in pharmaceutical-grade capsules filled with ultrafine liquefied molecules that easily get through your muscles’ outer cell shields to trigger the strongest anabolic reaction within muscle nuclei.

Nutrex researchers know how demanding bodybuilding is, so the company builds quality into every supplement it sells. Nutrex supplements are routinely used by such famous bodybuilding champions as Markus Ruhl, John Gasper, Leigh Hickombottom, and Billy Amicarelle.

When you buy the Nutrex brand, you can be certain the supplements are made from the highest-quality, scientifically proven ingredients.

—Julie Crawshaw