(My reply to this is going to be in depth and isn't directed at you, its for anyone reading now or the in the future. I'm not frustrated with you at all for asking, bc you're just asking a perfectly valid question based on what you read.)
That information is not correct.
I remember in the original thread where we were first asked about offering a Symplocos/Lodhra supplement and in that original thread where we were asked to, I had mentioned that the reason that we never had yet at the time was because of some of the misinformation on it and that people often confused that things can work very differently in males and females. An example that I had used was how when USP Labs had Compound20 how they frequently got asked about that and when PES used Symplocos/Lodhra, Cooper and Synapsin both had to explain it over and over.
A group of us had been discussing that in a thread that lead to the creation of Recomp20 and the ingredient then we also decided to use the ingredient in Anabolic XT and Cloma-Plex; and you can check the feedback on any of the 3 of them and you’ll see a lot of positive feedback on them.
I remember that
@Hyde (I hope he doesn't mind me tagging him) was part of that conversation and he's one of the most knowledgeable members here about anabolics and he and I were discussing how many people knew that Clomid works completely differently in men and women but for some reason rarely carry that logic over to supplements; and he really likes the Cloma-Plex formula
The Article that You are Referencing:
There is so much false information in that article and the study they used to back it that it makes me wonder if it was ignorance on behalf of the author if they did it intentionally to further the premise of their article – which was specifically written to market Lodhra to females.
That article is intentionally meant to target women, and many women will say – hey, wait, how can I take this if men can take it too? – so they throw things in to make the women more comfortable by saying that it may have negative effects in men, and what they’re using to imply that is – oh, because it can do ___ in women, it must do that in men – which is absolutely incorrect.
The best example that I can think of about how something can do something completely different in men than in women is Clomid itself.
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Think about it like this, a very simple analogy:
What is Clomid? Not in the HRT or PCT sense, but as a drug, what is it actually prescribed for? It is a fertility drug that stimulates ovulation in women and has positive effects on female hormone levels.
Now, apply that logic to what the article and excerpt in there is saying.
Does Clomid have any negative effects on testosterone levels? Absolutely not. To the contrary, it is rapidly becoming a very, very popular drug of choice for and with HRT regimens for men that don't want to inject or inject as often.
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There's nothing wrong with researching all of the different ingredients in a product. I spend a lot of my life doing research on various things, I would just encourage you to be skeptical of articles like that that are intentionally trying to slant things a certain direction and also of studies that try to do the same.
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It’s also important to note that that information may come up when doing an ingredient search on Symplocos but its not what comes up when you do a google search on SR10X, which is Symplocos standardized to a min. 10% tannins, which are responsible for many of the positive benefits of Symplocos in males and for body-composition and performance benefits. I cover SR10X in depth pretty substantially in all of the ingredient write ups that we use it in.
Here are links to write ups the introduction threads for Recomp20, Anabolic XT, and Cloma-Plex and information about SR10X is covered very in depth in the first posts:
Hardcore Natural Anabolic Muscle Builder Powered by Natural Phytoandrogens Lean Muscle, Strength, Fat Loss, Improved Body-Composition, Endurance, Libido, & More Invalid Link Removed Anabolic XT is a hardcore natural anabolic formula backed by clinically researched key ingredients...
anabolicminds.com
Revolutionary Leaning & Hardening Cocktail Advanced Fat Burning & Recomposition Agent Multi-Phase Muscle Building & Fat Burning Catalyst Invalid Link Removed Invalid Link Removed 2,800 mg. Symplocos Racemosa Extract (SR10X™) 200 mg. Cocoabuterol® 10 mg. Bioperine® Bigger...
anabolicminds.com
Natural Testosterone & Libido Booster Powerful Estrogen Control Support Invalid Link Removed Invalid Link Removed 1,500 Mg. Symplocos Racemosa (as SR10X™) 1,200 Mg. E. Cottonii 600 Mg. Ellagic Acid 500 Mg. Spilanthes Acmella (as SA3X™) 400 Mg. Panax Ginseng (as G70X™) 300 Mg. Cistanche...
anabolicminds.com
I hope all of that info helps. If you have any questions, just let me know.