MYO-X by MHP product review

MYO-X is an all-natural, clinically tested myostatin inhibitor suggested in a scientific study to reduce myostatin levels in 100% of test subjects by an astounding average of 46% with just one serving!* This is a very significant study for bodybuilders and athletes looking to support muscle mass, strength and performance.*

Myostatin is the greatest single catabolic limiting factor of muscle growth. This natural growth factor protein exists in our bodies and works to regulate and limit muscle growth in a genetically predetermined pattern. Clinical evidence and case studies have confirmed how myostatin suppresses muscle growth, therefore inhibiting myostatin may be a new and novel approach to enhance muscle growth.*

MYO-X has emerged as a powerful approach to muscle enhancement for all athletes.* A 46% reduction in myostatin can help counter the catabolic forces that have restricted your ability to build more muscle and open the door to new muscle building potential.* MYO-X is so extraordinary, Muscular Development magazine has proclaimed it to be the “Revolutionary Muscle Building Breakthrough of the Century!”*

Overpriced egg yolks in a pretty box. You’re better off buying some eggs at Costco and spend the change on a gym membership.

As you can see, first of all every statement is followed by an asterisk which indicates that these statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. Secondly, the “studies” they reference seems to be in fact only a single study: “Effect on Serum Myostatin Levels of High-Grade Handled Fertile Egg Yolk Powder” supposedly published in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition, Volume 26, No. 3, Abstract 47; October 2009. However, this issue is nowhere to be found. Colker’s study is allegedly on page 309 but issue 3 in June doesn’t contain that many pages. It seems they outright lied about the publication of this study. They included a graph as well, but since there is no study backing it, I can only assume this is a complete fabrication, not based on any scientific data.

You should also consider that the Wyeth pharmaceutical company tested the most likely myostatin-inhibitor, an anti-body which neutralized myostatin, called MYO-029, or ‘Stamulumab’, in 2008, in the hopes of combating muscle wasting disease, yet decided not to pursue it further.  It should be obvious that when a big pharmaceutical company won’t pursue a venture which could prove to be more profitable than Viagra, there must be a reason.  Here’s what they concluded:  ” There were no improvements noted in exploratory end points of muscle strength or function”. In other words, there aren’t any known substances that have any significant influence on myostatin inhibition by means of oral supplementation.

Finally, the active ingredient in MYO-O is claimed to be follistatin. However, the only way scientist have been able to use this compound to influence myostatin levels in clinical trials on animals is through gene therapy in order to have the body synthesize more follistatin. There is no proof whatsoever that oral supplementation of follistatin has the same effect. In other words, people purchasing this product are spending US$69 on egg yolks.