hey guys Curtis Alexander I was asked by some viewers to review a supplement called Ageless Male which is used to increase testosterone there's a lot of these testosterone boosters on the market so I'm going to go through the ingredient list just kind of give you my take whether it's helpful or not those sorts of things and just a little caveat this is for the original Ageless Male product they have a number of them but this is the original one okay um so first and foremost it has some ingredients in it that are very common in these testosterone boosters so this could apply to some other ones as well but first we have vitamin B6 and in this case it contains a form of B6 which is primarily plant-based called pyridoxine now the important thing to remember you know you'll see studies that vitamin B6 is involved with increasing testosterone and it is but we have to get our testosterone converted to a product called PL p and to do that involves some enzymes and what we find is that a lot of people can be deficient in this enzyme so they can be supplementing like crazy with B6 this pyridoxine but not able to convert it so in an Ideal World I would rather not see it contain pyridoxine I would rather see it contain PLP so that you don't have to worry about that conversion factor the issue is paradoxine is a lot cheaper and so it makes that issue um a little problematic in that regard so the idea of including B6 is good I just don't like how they pulled it off the next ingredient is a magnesium aspartate at 16 milligrams per cap now magnesium very important mineral very important for testosterone production and here's why when you're low in magnesium which a lot of Americans are a lot of males are you can see your endotoxin amounts go up endotoxin is basically a bad bacteria in your gut and it does a lot of bad things in your body so you can see endotoxin go up you can see inflammation go up you can see oxidative stress go up you can also see your energy production or the amount of ATP your body's producing go down so we definitely want magnesium in our bodies because all these things that I mentioned from low magnesium eventually Drve testosterone levels down okay so they did use magnesium aspartate in studies and looked at effects on testosterone it does increase it however it was at much higher doses than what they're using here they were using like 450 milligrams of magnesium aspartate a day to do that we've got 16 milligrams per tab so this gives you 32 milligrams per day so is it enough to help testosterone production I'm not sure if that's really going to do it we have zinc zinc is very popular for increasing testosterone the bottom line is does it help and what we know is that testosterone absolutely is related to testosterone production as well as DHT zinc also helps you make DHEA which is important lowers cortisol lowers prolactin lowers estrogen so it does a lot of good things it isn't insufficient amounts it's a good amount one of my knocks against taking zinc though I would rather see you get it from Foods because you start taking higher amounts of zinc which this is not but it's still 30 milligrams a day because you're taking two of these tabs a day that starts getting up to a point where you're worried about it lowering copper levels copper is very important for a lot of functions as well so it's not that zinc can't help it's that you have to ask yourself should you be getting it from food rather than a supplement now let's get to the important one this is kind of ageless males claim to fame is using fenugreek there's 300 milligrams per tablet excuse me tablet and they their patented name for their fenugreek you know all these supplement companies come out and say oh we have our particular standardized extract and it's called testofen and in the study where they compared testifan their fenugreek versus the sugar tablet what they found is that test defend did increase testosterone from 12. 3 to 13. 8 over a 12-week period but interestingly enough I started looking at the study in the control group or the people that were taking the sugar tablet it was set up really weird because in the test defend group they're starting testosterone was 12.
3 but in the control group they're starting testosterone was 13. 2 um which is pretty high they should have leveled it out more so both groups had kind of similar starting points and in the control group the testosterone went up for the first six weeks then it tanked down to 12.
