Frequently Asked Questions

3FU3L is made up of 3 Macronutrients- Protein, Fat and Carb- to fuel your body for optimum performance and recovery.

One serving (52g) per day is enough for most people. You can take it before or after your training or competition. For long endurance training we recommend one serving during each 90 minutes, mixed in 16oz of water, in addition to whatever amount of water you need to remain hydrated. We obviously recommend you testing out your fuel for during the training first, not at the event.

That’s what the protein companies would like you to believe! But the truth is that when you’re using intact protein (i.e. not simply branched chain amino acids or essential amino acids), it doesn’t matter if you take it before or after your workout.

The School of Sport and Exercise Sciences at the University of Birmingham performed a study where they measured amino acid balance and uptake in subjects who had consumed a whey protein shake either before or after a leg workout. The result? It didn’t matter whether they consumed the shake before or after training, there was no significant difference.

Most do not like taking their shakes before bc it sits heavy in their belly. 3FU3L protein is rapidly absorbed therefore can be easily taken before workout or competition. The Myth of the Postworkout “Recovery” Shake

There is no gluten in any of our ingredients.

We recommend good fish oil and Vitamin D.

Creatine is great stuff. If you like it and want it, you can get a year’s supply for $15 online. But for this product, and the needs we’ve designed it to serve, creatine wasn’t optimal: you’d need a loading dose of 20 grams per day for the first week (meaning you’d need to either take a whole bag of 3FU3L in one week) or you’d need to go out and buy creatine to add to it. Also, creatine is ideally consumed with a high glycemic index carbohydrate – which wasn’t in the cards for any product we’d put our names on.

Another consideration is that creatine will make you heavier; not a huge consideration for most people (as long as it’s muscle). But a concern for our MMA fighters and BJJ players, that often need to stay within their weight class. And we’d rather add Betaine to the product – which shows nice strength, power, and endurance gains, but without necessarily adding bodyweight. A higher strength to bodyweight ratio and greater lean tissue to fat, while improving endurance, is the sweet spot for 3FU3L. But again, creatine is cheap and effective, so by all means – shop for price and add it to your supplement routine.

There’s a couple of good reasons we’ve left Beta Alanine out of our product. The first is that a recent meta-analysis has shown that ingesting an average minimum of 178 grams (over time) is necessary to see a 3% performance effect. And while we’ll take every percent we can get, that means we’d need to put 6 grams of Beta Alanine in each serving of 3FU3L (for you to feel it by the end of the first month). That same analysis showed that it has no effect on movements lasting less than 60 seconds – so it’s not as useful for power athletes as Betaine (which we’ve included because it boosts both power as well as endurance).

And if we thought that would improve performance, we’d have included it. But unfortunately we ran into another stumbling block, and that’s the amount of Beta Alanine that gets eliminated after drinking it in a liquid form. See, a study published in late 2011, while we were still formulating 3FU3L, showed that taking Beta Alanine in a time-released tablet was superior to drinking it.

So while we’re not saying that Beta Alanine isn’t good stuff, we’re just saying that it’s not ideal to drink it. If you’re interested in using Beta Alanine, find yourself a nice time-released tablet, and take between 50-80mgs per kg of bodyweight.

Simply stated, HMB (beta-hydroxy beta-methylbutyric acid) shows its most pronounced results with inexperienced trainees and the elderly. And even then, we’re talking about a product that is not only expensive, but also produces (*and we’re being generous here) very mild results.

The flavor and sweeteners found in 3Fu3l are all natural and minimal. There are no flavors in our product that you couldn’t pick right out of the natural world as-is.

Our high grade whey protein hydrolysate is very bitter (due to the hydrolyzation process). The higher the degree of hydrolyzation, the more bitter the protein becomes. The more bitter the protein, the more you need to rely on flavoring. So that is why we added a flavor package to make our product a bit more palatable while still adhering to our Clean Diet.

We tried other formulas with just Protein and Fat. But we kept bonking. After the doing some research and testing on ourselves, we found that the third macronutrient (Carbohydrate) was necessary to sustain energy. Then we came across 3CARB™ that actually is a low glycemic index carbohydrate that acts like a fiber and provides hours of energy- far more than any other carbohydrate. Study on Carbs + MCTs

3Fu3l is a clean recovery and performance product for those that are trying to stick to a healthier diet and/or are serious about their training. In general other products might taste a better because there is more sugar in it. But we are more concerned about keeping our Formula as clean as possible so it doesn’t mess with our Clean Diet.

We’ve invested in more pure, high quality ingredients because that’s what we wanted to take. Our Grass Fed Whey Protein Hydrolysate is the purest and highest grade protein you can get on the market. Many of our competitors use either a Grass Fed Whey Concentrate or Isolate or a Whey Hydrolysate. We sourced an organic non GMO coconut milk powder to put in our product rather than the cheaper MCT oil you find in a lot of other products as well.

3FU3L also is one of the only formulas to have all 3 macronutrients in one product with a slow burning carb and minimal sugar (1 g/serving). We are the first sports supplement to use the breakthrough formula 3CARB™ in our product.

And last but not least, there are really no other supplements on the market that can simultaneously help you fuel and recover. In order to get same benefit from 3FU3L, you would need to buy at least $120 worth of other products to match our one at $64.95