hey there everyone this is michael duggal, the neotropic reviewer, and during this video
today i'm going to share my experience taking both tongkat ali and tribulus terrestris both
nootropics are leaders when it comes to nootropics you can take to increase your testosterone levels
both of them are natural they are herbal and boy do they work i absolutely love tribulus i've been
using it almost every single day for over eight years at this stage and with tongkat ali i've used
it for about a couple of years and it's been such that it's very strong it also does have some side
effects and you'll learn that with tongkat ali there is research backing just how effective it
is when it comes to increasing your testosterone levels with tribulus very hard to find research
there was some research initially done there are some people that do report um having a better mood
with it but i can just share from my experience taking it anyway i was actually on trt prior to
taking tribulus and i'm not saying that tribulus helped me get off of that and help me to allow
myself to have natural testosterone levels but i do blood work periodically my testosterone
levels are pretty good i would say tonkat ali is definitely stronger than tribulus but with
tribulus it's lighter and it has less side effects like very often the stronger the supplement is the
stronger the side effects are and with tongkat ali lightheadedness nausea is very very common
you have to also be very aware as as far as like how to take it when you should be taking it and
what the right dosage is with tribulus it's more like you know you take one or two capsules a day
you'll be fine and it's just a lot more subtle but unfortunately with both supplements i didn't
notice any like cognitive benefit i was hoping that i would be experiencing like a better memory
um increased sharpness but you feel like how you would expect to feel if your testosterone levels
were higher and that feels like better sleep quality more ambition better results in the
weight room like you're just like your joints feel stronger you feel more able to like bust through
pr's and i found that with tonkat ali that was really noticeable i was able to lean out while
maintaining muscle mass with tribulus i didn't notice those same results more so if anything
what i liked about tribulus was that i could sleep much deeper when i was taking it i was
waking up in a like you know restful restorative state with tongkat ali i didn't really find like
much of a benefit with sleep quality if anything maybe i could get away with getting a little bit
less sleep but that specific benefit seemed to subside away after about a couple of months of use
and speaking of tolerance build up because this is really important that you are aware of like yes
we can take nootropics but how long will they work for and do i need to start taking more and more in
order to get the same benefit that i experienced from day one and it was my experience that with
tribulus you can pretty much take it every single day i'm not taking it 365 days of the year i will
not take it on vacations with me but i think it is still appropriate to do so now the issue really
when it comes to tribulus terrestris is that like some people just unfortunately don't feel
it working and that's going to be the case with all supplements but but with tribulus it is very
subtle maybe there's something to be said about like the people with lower levels of testosterone
perhaps can experience the benefits more so when it comes to natural testosterone boosters i hope
there's some research on that because tribulus certainly works for me like i've taken it out of
my supplement stack i've noticed that my sleep quality would slightly decrease i also didn't
feel as strong or as aggressive in general like i'm in a sales role i need to be following up i
need to be money motivated and i found that tribulus to some extent does help with that
but with tongkat ali definitely noticeable um as a matter of fact andrew huberman definitely gave it
like a big shout out and rightfully so because following that a lot of people did experience
having a really good experience with tongkat ali so tongkat ali about 400 milligrams per day
has the effect of raising free testosterone and overall testosterone by about 100 to 200 points
with tripping this though i like that you can take it day by day and you don't have to worry
about really like a tolerance build up it's such that if you experience the benefits of tribulus
you'll probably notice it within week one and if you were to continue taking it like three
months straight or like three months on followed by a couple weeks break and then three months on
again you will still feel those benefits working whereas with tongkat ali it was my experience that
i mean i felt it very quickly i felt it within a few days that i was able to like aggressively get
to the weight room i felt a much stronger i felt all the signs of it really working and my libido
was a lot higher but after a couple of months i definitely didn't feel those same benefits that i
felt from the first week so with tribulus better that way these are the actual products that i'm
taking tribulus i'm getting it from now which is a great brand and the brand really does matter when
it comes to tribulus terrestris i have tried it in many other forms i didn't notice the same benefit
and i would strongly recommend you stay away from the powder and as a matter of fact stay
away from both powders they taste horrible these are probably the worst tasting powders out there
so with tribus you'll typically find it in capsule or in tablet and a common serving size is going
to be like 750 milligrams to one gram and the way that you can start taking it is once a day i would
recommend you start taking it prior to sleeping if anything but that's what's great about tribulus
terrestris versus tonkat ali just the ease and the convenience you can take tribulus pretty much
at any time you can take it with the meal you can take it without a meal i'm somebody who practices
intermittent fasting like i'll take a pre-workout shake a post-workout shake but otherwise i'm
fasting and i'll typically use tribulus during that fasting period whereas with tonkat alley
the way you would may want to get into starting to take it is by taking about 200 milligrams this is
my favorite form it's the two percent uracominone that you can get from nootropics depot and i
would strongly recommend that you do not have it fasted like under no circumstance you tried fasted
because i made that mistake um as a matter of fact the first few weeks i started taking tonkat aldi
i took it fasted not knowing just that i had to have it with a meal like i don't think it was in
the instructions or directions anywhere and what was saw was i felt nauseous i felt fatigued there
was sometimes when i wanted to vomit but at the same time i noticed it working like everything you
would want from a testosterone booster but when it came to like my work and my sales job what so was
my performance definitely did decline so for that reason now i take tonkat ali with the biggest meal
of the day which is like dinner time um for me i have not noticed it messed with my sleep quality
at all whereas i have seen some individuals say that they can't take tonkat aldi like within a
few hours of sleeping they need to take it prior and or they need to take it in the morning heck
it's so hard to say maybe they're making the mistake of taking it in a fasted state because
that hasn't been my experience and something great that i noticed with both tribulus and tonka and
ali was like my general joints were better and i wasn't experiencing as many like aches and pains
when i was going to the gym especially on those days when you're like weightlifting and you know
you're bench pressing and you start to feel like wrist pain like i can say with confidence that
i'm a lot more comfortable lifting weights in a heavy fashion when i'm using both of these
supplements and i hope you experience that as well with tribulus it kind of feels like magnesium if
you've ever tried like magteen specifically what's so is like it helps with sleep but
it also helps with energy just very interesting makes for a great healthy supplement and so it's
interesting with tribulus because some people seem to notice a short-term benefit with it as well and
that they take it and they immediately feel a bit more aggressive they feel a little bit more alert
with tonka alley that hasn't been my experience at all it's more like you take it for a few days
it gets saturated in your system if anything you get a very short libido boost very quickly
and people are always asking michael is there any like supplement you can take prior to going to bed
if anything tonka ali could be decent again um how i'm taking it is i'm taking 200 milligrams
once per day but when it comes to this whole conversation of increasing your testosterone
levels naturally using supplements as expected they're only going to do so much but i think these
two are great options some of the other options include like ashwagandha turkesterone i've talked
about all these throughout my videos on this channel i want you to know sincerely though that
these two supplements are great and it's hard to say like which one's better like for me personally
i like tribulus more but i think for the average individual that i mean you just want to increase
your testosterone levels you kind of don't care how it happens you just want to know that you're
taking a supplement that works then tonka ali may be better for you but i like the fact that with
tribulus it's a bit more predictable my energy levels feel good my sleep is good with tongkat
ali i see it like i see it as like a little bit risky um i take it for a couple months yes it's
working but at the same time is it doing more harm than it is good and so if you're wondering if you
can use them together i personally do however i'm a very experienced user when it comes to
nootropics i have common sense which i hope you have too and so if you are going to do that i
wouldn't go ahead and do that right from the start if anything try both supplements individually
give tonkat ali a shot for a month give tribulus trestrust a shot for a month if you notice them
both working perhaps you can slowly get into it start off with a small dose but overall i
don't think it's too bad of an idea and let me know if that's your experience with it as well
with testosterone there's so much you got to know not just supplements but diet and fitness and
lifestyle factors come into play so if you want to learn more about that what i'm doing to optimize
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