Whoa. Haven’t had any effects like that yet but again I’m only 2 and a half weeks in. Can anyone that has been using this for over a month chime in on this?
You have nothing to worry about. The issue with Fadogia was beat to death and debated about back to before M-Test ever came out. And it was universally agreed that basically ever knowledgeable person involved in the discussions that Fadogia is safe to take.
In today's world, you can find a study to support almost anything you want to say and you can also slant one to mean whatever you want it to mean.
There are many people, including myself that run M-Test year round as a daily use supplement and never had any issues with it.
Just like there are people that use other Fadogia supplements that don't have any issues with them.
I'm a great example of Fadogia in regards to bloodwork. As many here know, I have an autoimmune and endocrinology condition that I have to get bloodwork for approximately ever 8 weeks. The reason that I started using M-Test daily was because my free testosterone levels improved on it so much when I had my initial bloodwork that my doctor had me come off of it to see and they went back down. He had me start again and they went back up again. At that point, my endocrinologist (who is very anti-supplement) told me to continue to take it regularly because my free testosterone levels were great and we hadn't been able to replicate that even with some of the prescriptions they'd tried me on. The bloodwork I have ran for my condition is very comprehensive and includes hormone levels, PSA, liver enzymes, inflammation markers, etc. and I've never had any issues.
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Just for the sake of investigation, let's examine the 'study' and I put study in quotation marks because it has some very glaring flaws.
It's easy for people to take a study out of context or use an extremely sloppy study to try to further a point of view that the researchers want to and this study is a great example of that.
1. This study was done on rodents, not people.
2. How many rodents was the study on?
3. How old were the rodents in the study?
4. What was the general physical health of the rodents in the study?
5. What was the actual purpose of the study?
#5 is very relevant because what was the researchers intention? In that were they objective or did they find what they were wanting to find; and the reason I ask that is because they sure did use the words 'might' and 'may' a whole lot in their abstract - so I would say that that alone is a reason to state that nothing was conclusive about their 'study'.
6. They used a 'aqueous extract of Fadogia agrestis stem' - notice that they didn't specify which extract, what it was extracted or standardized for, etc. It also didn't state whether the study was done on Fadogia itself or on just the isolated extract - because if that was the case, that is completely different with any herb than what is actually used in real world dosing for anything.
7. Being that some of the things that they said that it 'might' or 'may' be responsible for are also some of the things that could be attributed to heavy metals testing and that there are other things that you would think would have been specified in studies that weren't addressed by them, its important to note that I didn't see anywhere where they tested for or addressed the possibility that their could have been some heavy metals contamination in the extracts that they used. (This was a big question mark when this study was first debated years ago).
Now, let's look at a couple of things that the study did say:
- Clinical toxicity symptoms such as respiratory distress, epistasis, salivation, hypo- and hyperactivity were not observed at any period of the experiment.
Translation - no toxicity symptoms such as the ones mentioned above were shown.
- No mortality recorded.
- The liver and kidney body weight ratios of the extract-treated animals compared well (P > .05) with their controls throughout the experimental period.
- The extract did not cause any swelling, atrophy or hypertrophy of the organs
- Here is a direct quote - This
might have resulted from peroxidation of the polyunsaturated fatty acids on the membranes of the hepatocytes and nephrons made possible by the functional groups or the product of metabolism of the extract.
- Here is another direct quote - This
may be responsible for the compromise of the integrity of the plasma membranes of the hepatocytes and nephrons.
^^^ This seems very far from being conclusive of anything.