The Most Commonly Asked Questions About Testogen
Magnesium 200mg - Whilst this is only 50% of your daily requirement for magnesium, including this dose mean that most people are likely to have any deficiencies covered. Magnesium is essential for healthy testosterone production and this is a solid inclusion. Larger doses of magnesium supplementation have shown to be slightly more effective, but this should be enough for most cases. It also has the benefit of helping a healthy sleep cycle, and poor sleep quality is one of the leading factors in causing low testosterone levels. It's also one of the most unfortunate low testosterone symptoms as it compounds the effect, making magnesium essential for the best testosterone boosters.
Vitamin B6 20mg - Vitamin b6 is another common inclusion in testosterone supplements for 2 reasons. One it's essential for testosterone production, and two, it boosts energy levels helping to combat low testosterone symptoms. At 1400% of your recommended daily minimum this may seem high, but it's been studied to be safe at much higher levels and the dose in Testogen pills is ideally for raising energy levels helping you train more effectively.
Zinc 10mg - Covering off zinc is something that pretty much all good testosterone supplements do. 10mg is 100% of your absolute minimum. Anything less than this in your diet will completely tank testosterone production. Taking more than 15mg (which is the amount a notably large man would need) has no increase on testosterone levels so 10mg is fine. Most men get at least 7-9mg in a standard diet, but with even a mild deficiency causing problems, it's inclusion will boost testosterone levels for a lot of men.
Vitamin D3 50mcg - Vitamin D has been shown to raise free testosterone levels in healthy men by double digit percentages and even higher in deficient men. 50mcg is 1000% of your daily dose and goes well past the testosterone boosting dose of 25mcg, but this could actually be even higher. It's been shown to improve athletic performance and still be safe at up to 5000%. Whilst the latter element doesn't raise testosterone levels directly a lot of people take testosterone to improve their gym performance so this seems like another solid inclusion.
Vitamin k1 20mg - Vitamin K deficiency causes low testosterone, however, a very small amount of the population has a "clinical deficiency" as a result the fact that this is only 26% should cover off any "sub clinical deficiencies" that would be likely to be effecting testosterone levels.
D Aspartic Acid - 2352mg - D Aspartic Acid is the star of the show in Testogen, D Aspartic Acid has been shown to raise testosterone levels in both trained and untrained men. It actually even seems to work to raise testosterone levels in sedentary men, making it a most have for a supplement looking to boost testosterone levels. There's a plethora of trials that back up D Aspartic Acids use and this is the correct dosage with ideal ranges being between 2000mg and 3000mg. It should be noted that some people have to work up to 2000mg and if you experience any nausea we recommend taking a half dose of testogen for a week until your body is used to it. Added to which taking D Aspartic Acid whilst training as been shown to increase muscle growth and a higher rate of body fat loss when compared to a placebo irrespective of test levels.
Nettle Leaf 40mg - This is probably the weakest point of the Testogen supplement, we'd have rather seen a bit more panax ginseng, nettle leaf extract does work by increasing sex hormone binding globulin shbg which reduces estrogen and means you have more "free testosterone". But, the effect is a lot lower than the other ingredients in Testogen.
Red Ginseng 40mg - We're huge fans of Panax Ginseng supplementation for testosterone boosters, this 4:1 extract is equivalent to 160mg, which is within the effective range, although it could be a little bit higher. Red Ginseng has been proven in multiple double blind placebo trials to raise testosterone levels, that's in men who trained, didn't train, at different ages etc. There's a lot of different trials and it's by far one of the most well backed ingredients. It does have to be Panax or Korean Red Ginseng Extract, American Ginseng doesn't contain the same active ingredients "ginsenosides" to effect testosterone production. Testogen get this right.
Fenugreek extract 40mg - As a 4:1 ratio extract this comes out as the equivalent to 160mg of a standard fenugreek extract. It's within the effective range for fenugreek to boost testosterone synthesis, although we do prefer to see a dosage of 200mg, still good. Just could be a little bit higher.
Boron 8mg - Boron is another great inclusion that we tend to see in most testosterone booster supplements worth their salt. It's been shown to raise testosterone production quite dramatically, upwards of 20% and takes up relatively little capsule space, it's also not too expensive. We do prefer this to be dosed at 10mg, but 8mg is the most clinically tested dose. Although there is one study showing 10mg to be more effective, and for such a small difference we'd have rather seen the extra 2mg. Still a good inclusion and another plus to our Testogen review.
Bioperine 5mg - Bioperine doesn't actually do anything to raise total or free testosterone levels, it does however help your body absorb nutrients more effectively and generally speaking it's a good inclusion in 4 capsule dietary supplements.