hey there everyone this is michael Duggal, the nootropic reviewer, and during this video you're
going to learn how to cycle natural supplements in order for you to increase your testosterone
levels and the great news is that i was on trt in the past i'm no longer on trt and my testosterone
levels feel healthy i can gain strength i can lose fat when i want to i'm sleeping well i'm
feeling ambitious and hopefully you can too and thankfully i did find some natural alternatives
which surprisingly did actually yield good results so don't let anyone tell you that natural
uh testosterone boosters don't work i don't think there's anything wrong with giving them
a shot a lot of them are pretty side effect free anyway and the four that i'm going to be
talking about specifically during this video would be a tongkat ali, tribulus terrestris,
turkesterone, and ashwagandha and what my daily routine typically looks like is taking
200 milligrams of tongkat ali that's once per day i'm taking tribulus two grams a day one gram
in the morning one gram later in the evening i'm taking about 400 milligrams of ashwagandha later
sometime in the evening and then with turkesterone that's the one where i'll use strategically when
i'm taking time off of tonkat ali as far as how i would like rank these particular supplements for
boosting testosterone i would say tonkat ali would be at the very top as the best then it
would be tribulus and then it would be ashwagandha and there's a little disclaimer with that though
it's that with turkosterone i've only been taking it for a couple of months if that so i'm noticing
it's pretty effective right now but i haven't had like over a year to really properly experiment
with it or check my blood work or anything like that whereas the other supplements i've been on
for a pretty long time but i'm pretty optimistic with turkosterol just my only concern is like is
it really safe to mix with other supplements because it's pretty damn strong like i'm
building muscle with it i'm feeling much better um i'm able to lean out while maintaining muscle
which is obviously a really good sign and so we'll spend some time talking about the benefits of each
and how you can use them and of course some cautions like should you take it faster should
you take it with a meal first starting with tonkat ali like i mentioned definitely the strongest i'm
telling you like when i first started taking tonkat ali i was able to bust through a lot of
like weightlifting plateaus and i'm definitely not the strongest guy at the gym so any sort of gain
that i can see i'm really happy with and boy did i notice it quickly i'm talking about within days i
felt stronger my joints felt healthier i was much more eager to lift weights which was a good sign
but as far as cognitively speaking i didn't really notice it helped me with like thinking um memory
learning or like anti-anxiety which i was really hoping for because a lot of people do actually
report that tonkat ali does give them good like nootropic effects more so for me when it came to
overall testosterone and so i've been taking it for well over a year now and i've talked about
my experience on tongkat ali specifically during uh this video over here you'll likely find that
helpful uh just some cautions with tongkat ali under no circumstance should you take it fasted
and i definitely made this mistake early on when i first started using tongkat ali was i was
using it and i wasn't feeling good at all i was feeling nervous i was biting my nails i was super
irritable and then i did learn afterwards that you need to be taking tonkat ali with the meal ideally
the biggest meal of your day and the specific form that i like most is the two percent eurocoma owns
which you can find on nootropics depot there's a link for that in the description box below
you can get it in either the capsule form or you can get it in the powder if you do get it in the
powder form it tastes absolutely awful you should know that up front but these other nootropics that
i'm going to talk to you about they don't taste any better so you're probably going to be better
taking off in a capsule or tablet forms and that nice one simple dose of 200 milligrams once per
day works for me i think it's okay whether you take it in the morning or in the evening if your
biggest meals is at the end of the day like myself i practice intermittent fasting then tongkat
ali you can consume it then it'll be no problem because it doesn't cause you to be stimulated it
won't cause any alertness any insomnia don't worry about that you should be just fine and now let's
move on to the second supplement which i of course have a special liking for and that's tribulus
terrestris and that's because i've been using tribulus for many many years probably since 2014
and i'm somebody who really responds well to it i notice i get a better mood i'm actually sleep
much better when i'm taking tributes like i can definitely tell during the time like i'm on it and
then i'm off of it and the way that i came across this specific ingredient was from this specific
product called test freak so i use test freak which is a like a testosterone blend
and it really really worked for me and then i went afterwards and i kind of deconstructed it i tried
the ingredients one by one and i pinned down that it was pretty much tribulus that was doing all the
work yet that being said the brand of this one really does matter and i would recommend you
look into getting a good highly rated company when it comes to tribulus so my favorite being on now
and the way that you may want to get started with tribulus is you can try a smaller dose um
doses like 750 milligrams they're pretty common and take it once before you sleep it'll likely
do more good versus taking it once in the morning and with this one it doesn't matter whether you
take it with a meal without a meal very often i take it faster i'm still feeling great and you
should likely feel something from it but this is one definitely get the tablet or get the capsule
this is probably the worst tasting supplement out there but um it really does work for me that being
said a lot of people notice that it doesn't work for them and so that's the reason why
i would rank it uh third out of four like when tribulus first became popular there was a lot
of research supporting that that it did in fact boost testosterone levels yet as of lately all
the studies pretty much show that it doesn't do anything at all i'm speaking from my experience
and my guess um after reading so many comments from this great channel is that it probably works
better with people who have like lower levels of testosterone maybe like medium to lower level of
testosterone they can probably notice it working but one of the things that i like most about it
is that it's really not important that you take time off of it i'm telling you like tribulus is
the one supplement of these four that i trust to take almost every single day of the year that's
how i plan to take it now let's take a little bit of time talking about turk steroids there's
a lot of hype about this product especially lately since it was like nicely featured on
an andrew huberman podcast and he definitely made it seem like one of the best natural supplements
out there that you can get to increase your testosterone levels while being somewhat
free of side effects like there's this thing that's now kind of uh going wild on the internet
i've never tried it but it's called turkesterone orchesterone side by side with deca or another
testosterone derivative it essentially acts the same way it increases testosterone and performance
and recovery and surprisingly this has actually really lived up to the hype i'm only taking one
capsule that's 500 milligrams once per day i'm typically taking it in the morning and um and i'm
really seeing a good benefit with it i'm able to effectively like build strength i'm actually able
to lose fat while maintaining strength because like i've actually been on a cutting diet over
the past short while so i've been pretty much like utilizing these supplements in order to
keep my testosterone levels high in order for me to maintain whatever muscle i may have and i'm
finding that this supplement like with the help of this my lips haven't at all dropped i still
feel somewhat muscular i don't feel like i've lost muscle mass which is always a good sign
um it hasn't really helped too much when it came to sleep quality but it's definitely helped with
my libido so overall like all those signs that that it can be building my testosterone levels
but what scares me the most about turkesterone is the fact that there's such a limited amount
of research out there so if anything i'm a little bit fearful with this product and so
the way that i'm planning to use it is only during the time when i'm taking time off tonkat alleys
using them both at the same time it might be a bit overpowering i've had periods of my life
thanks to trt when i had testosterone levels that were too high and i found it pretty distractible
like not only in the sense of like my personal life but also just from a business like work
perspective you you find yourself getting angrier road rage is a real thing you lose your level of
discipline because everything seems to excite you you're kind of like grandiose and a little bit um
delusional so for me that's a good balance maybe that could work for you two months on tonkat ali
take that one month off and then use something like turkisterone and then with tribulus you
can use that every single day but only if you see the benefit of using tribulus now let's spend some
time talking about ashwagandha and ashwagandha this one's a bit tricky because i've not
personally noticed it do much for my testosterone levels yet i'm still using it and so the mechanism
of action in which ashwagandha works to improve testosterone levels is by basically decreasing
cortisol levels so we know that cortisol is like a stress hormone we never want to have too much
cortisol in our body because excess stress often leads to a decreased amount of testosterone so
with echelon it's a little bit tricky that way i think more so people who are overly stressed
out may find it beneficial with boosting their testosterone levels like for me i've not noticed
it do too much yet i am still taking it and what is as well unique about this product is that
most people aren't using ashwagandha for boosting their testosterone levels it's more so popular
around decreasing stress decreasing anxiety like you can see this chart over here and it
ranks as one of the best supplements that you can take to decrease anxiety levels and trust
that it really works you feel calmer you feel more present you feel more excited to go about
your work because you're finding fulfillment in it but when it comes to boosting testosterone
levels some people report taking a pre-workout does help however i am again just using it for
the anti-anxiety and with ashwagandha you really need to take some time to try it test it see what
works for you some people do get away with taking higher amounts but i made that mistake and by
taking too much ashwagandha i was feeling pretty demotivated so with ashwagandha you really need to
understand and learn about the side effects because yes it may be responsible for increasing
your testosterone levels yet at the same time is it worth it if it makes you demotivated probably
not i'm somebody who is self-employed i sell residential real estate i train and i recruit
real estate agents and so i cannot afford to be demotivated and so for that reason
i'm not taking too much ashwagandha now but for me what it looks like is i'm using this specific
extract once in a day at 300 milligrams this is ksm66 you can find this at nootropics depot
it's probably the most popular form of ashwagandha because truth be told it doesn't demotivate you
like some of the other forms of ashwagandha does it's still kind of nice does have this nice like
stimulating way about it and so the way i'm taking it is 300 milligrams once in the evening sometime
like around 6 o'clock p.m and then what i'm doing prior to going to sleep is i'm using a different
extract of ashwagandha this one is called shoden and this really helps with sleep quality it's
especially potent um notice it's a pretty small bottle so this is 120 milligrams which means i'm
taking 420 milligrams of ashwagandha per day and i'm strategically like avoiding taking it in the
morning and the early afternoon when i'm getting a lot of my work done because with ashwagandha
um sometimes you do feel this like acute effect that you take it you feel a little bit tired which
the good thing about that is that it can perhaps improve sleep quality help you to relax and the
way that i'm taking time off of ashwagandha is i'm taking typically six weeks on followed by
two weeks off i don't think it necessarily matters if it overlaps with some of the other supplements
that i've discussed on this video i just find what works for you just the only caution with this
is that it can do some strange things to your thyroid function so if you're somebody with
hyperthyroidism or hypothyroidism i would say only use this under the discretion of your general
practitioner because if they're prescribing you something then of course you don't want anything
to mess with that because it takes like a whole lot of time in order for you to get your thyroid
meds right but i really hope you found this information informative so these are like the four
supplements that i plan to use strategically in order to keep my testosterone levels high and i'm
feeling pretty good so let me know your thoughts i want to know what's different in your routine
or what one of the four supplements do you plan to try next be sure to drop that in the comment
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