Testosterone Boosting Supplements, the FACTS exposed!

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Testosterone boosters are a very popular category of supplements these days. Are they worth using? Are they safe? Is there any solid research they increase muscle mass and strength? Learn the facts here on testosterone boosters. Increasing testosterone, foods that increase testosterone. Do these products increase libido? Male size? Can women use testosterone boosters?


However, this write up is not going to cover the hormone per se, but to discuss the various over-the-counter (OTC) products/formulas claiming to increase it. As there are literally hundreds, perhaps thousands, of products/formulas on the market at this point, all claiming to boost this important hormone, I am going to be talking in generalities about these products vs. a specific ingredient or formula.

A few ingredients in these formulas have been shown via dubious research at best to have a small impact on T, with the majority of them either having no research behind them or research that found they did nada for T levels.

To summarize this supplement category, the T booster supplements generally contain ingredients that:

• Have no data behind them or -
• The data they do have is of very poor quality/ and/or taken out of context/not applicable or -
• The doses used in the formula are far below what a study used to get the effect.

Obviously, the above can (and does!) apply to many products/formulas in the sports nutrition industry, but I find the T boosters worse then other categories in that respect.

OK, so lets give some T booster product the benefit of the doubt and say it does have some effects on T. That brings up a few important issues to consider.


Physiological Threshold Concepts

Heres a simple thought experiment: If you take a small amount of testosterone, say 25mg per week of T- propionate•, will your testosterone levels go up slightly for a short time? Yes. Will your muscle mass increase and or your strength increase? Nope. Anyone who has ever taken any T or knows the first thing about the topic knows theres a threshold dose at which one actually experiences changes in body composition and or strength.

The point being, its one thing to show formula/ingredient X has had some small impact on serum testosterone (and most have not), quite another to show that change actually had any effects on body composition or other end points people using such products generally care about, such as increases in strength and muscle mass.

As with any hormone, theres a physiological threshold that has to be met before it actually impacts muscle mass, strength, etc.

Anyone who has ever used T in the form of cypionate or enanthate (both long acting esters of T) knows that changes in body composition generally start at around 200mg per week at the least, with more being the norm.

The above assumes a person with normal testosterone levels vs. HRT/TRT therapy for those who are found to be medically low in T.

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[Fattboy26]

I have 3 monthly reandrogen (bad spelling) shot every 3 months because of low testosterone. I was also hoping to find a supplement that I can buy that would also increase this.

[willbrink]

FatB, read the article at my site that goes into more details on the topic, but as the vid above outlines, I have no faith in such products....

[BigBadassR]

Do you include prohormones in this assessment Mr. Brink? PS Thanks for appx. 15 years of great advice....the gym I go to has been fans of yours since your Musclemag days. Found your website by accident looking for backup in an argument I was having about flax oil....and sure enough I find Mr. Brink! Go figure hey? (Mr. Brink advocated flax oil at least five years before anybody else knew what it was).

[willbrink]

BigB, prohormones are another issue. Some of the comments in this vid would apply, some would not. Pro hormones convert (hence the term) to other hormones, be it T, or something else. Some would lower T in fact, but it's too complicated to cover in a post here. Prohormones are not "boosters" in the classic sense in my view.

[Shaok353]

All I heard here is a medical reason to watch porn

[zume2600]

@cagefite007 You sir are a bonafide dumbass.

[HerberttheHisser]

@cagefite007 Made yourself look very stupid... Do you know who this guy is? He is more than qualified enough to make these assertions.

[MrHohohobitchez]

@cagefite007 You look stupid man, Will has a degree from Harvard and has been on the cutting edge of this type of stuff for years. He is one of the most respected people in the nutrition/bodybuilding/supplem­ent industry. Who are you to call him out? You look very, very ignorant.

[AdamRan]

@daniells71 What brand was this may I ask?

[daniells71]

I've tried one specific brand that worked because I saw side effects with very minimal use. ie. increase in facial hair, muscle mass, and very hard and random erections. Thus said, I no longer use it and I'm very conscious about what I put in my body. There are just too many chemicals in food nowadays so why add more? Plus after you take a few months off the gym, it is all a total loss.

[ThePoisonCloud]

haha, I was just about to order over 100€ t-boosters... Now I'll stick with "looking at naked women" -great vid m8

[willbrink]

@cagefite007 And I urge you to go do the research. I'm not your med library and gave you direction as to where to look. That you continue to maintain the only studies that exist are in vitro, and T boosters have "equivalent studies supporting them as anabolic steroids" simply makes you look extremely ignorant of the data that takes seconds to find. I will be approving no more of your posts and have no plans to use my youtube channel as a place to educate you on the topic. Good luck.

[cagefite007]

@willbrink

With all do respect, what medical qualifications do you possess to make such assertions? Experience doesn't rival an academic education. I urge to send me a peer-reviewed med journal that isn't based on test tube methodology. I'm not inferring we dismiss the data, just in reality test boosters have equivalent studies supporting them as anabolic steroids.

"...invivo" - Cite me one that involves the molecular mechanics of a HUMAN?

[willbrink]

@cagefite007 That's a lot to write considering you are incorrect. It appears you have not looked at the data prior to posting that. There's plenty of invivo, double blinded, human studies with supplements that live up to, or exceed, what I simply demand of any supplement, including T boosters, which sell off hype, marketing, and placebo effect over data, similar to others... You can search my site, pubmed, and many other places for all manner of supps with real scientific support vs T boosters.