hey everyone this is Michael Duggal the nootropic reviewer and during this video today i'm going to
do a product review of sigma which is one of the most popular testosterone boosting blends and so
you all know just up front i think this is a really good product for the price i would rate
it a nine out of ten but i will say one thing which really separates this product from some
of its competitors is the ingredient formula and that's what we will jump straight into
and these are the supplement facts we can see the serving size is two capsules of servings
per container is 120 and the ingredients look solid vitamin d3 magnesium zinc fidoji aggresses
tongkat ali ashwagandha extract and boron and um and when i've used other testosterone boosters in
the past what the more common ingredients seem to be are zinc and magnesium those ones you'll
probably find because what so is when you're low on zinc and low on magnesium in your diet anyway
then what so is it's pretty common that low testosterone it does happen as a result
but what this product has done differently is they've added two of these very
trending nootropics out there fedoji aggressis and tongkat ali if you all remember andrew huberman in
that very famous podcast he did with joe rogan he specifically listed these two supplements as
the most effective as far as the research done on humans and another one which is very interesting
it's a nigerian shrub called phadoggia aggressis and so those two herbal supplements together can
give a significant boost in free and active testosterone and i actually like the idea of
testosterone boosting products because if you're new to taking testosterone boosters
you may not want to go ahead and spend all your money on one specific ingredient or one specific
supplement so i like the fact that you can get a whole kind of assortment of supplements into
one blend and then you can determine there afterwards if they did anything for you
and if you should continue to take it or adjust the ingredients and just understand whether or
not they work for you because the reality is with testosterone boosting supplements out there or
testosterone boosting blends they very often work for people who actually have like lower
testosterone levels or maybe if you're like mid-range to low range but for the majority of
individuals like let's say you're a male in your 20s you're sleeping right and of course you're
managing your stress levels likely you're going to have higher testosterone levels or be in like the
mid to high range in which testosterone boosting products or natural testosterone boosting products
probably won't do anything for you or perhaps like the small thing you may notice is a slight mood
improvement that's something which i noticed when i first started taking ingredients like tribulus
or like zma and i've talked about optimizing your testosterone levels in this video over here you
may find helpful so let's take a look at this product together we can see here sigma higher
testosterone and free testosterone levels only costing 10 to 20 dollars per month that sounds
great but it sold out and this isn't the only product on gorilla mine which is sold out i
don't know why they're hyping up so many products if they're all sold out uh be better off if it
weren't on the website misleading us each bottle lasts for 2.5 to 5 months this is great the fact
that this is a product in which you get a lot of serving 240 capsules in total so 120 servings and
then of course some nice fancy terms what would we do without the fancy terms and the asterisks and
if you scroll down unfortunately you can't see any explanation for that so i'm not sure what they're
referencing there and let's take a look at the supplement facts so what we know about vitamin d3
vitamin d3 being great for fat loss also great for mood i don't think it's really that important when
it comes to it being a testosterone booster or having properties which will help you to
have any like noticeable signs of improved testosterone levels like higher libido or better
sleep but the most important thing is it's there because if you have low vitamin d that has a whole
host of problems so this is good in the in that they use the d3 form which is supposedly better
with absorption we've got magnesium magnesium great for energy production better sleep better
mood zinc like i mentioned 15 milligrams is in the two capsule servings you never want to go too high
with your zinc strange things can happen gray hairs happen hair loss happens people actually
feel worse and get brain fog and next we have aggressis like i mentioned very popular right now
we're very limited on the research this uh one supplement would make me personally want to stay
away from sigma just because i'm one of the people waiting for more research that is conclusive
which will help us better determine whether or not fudoji aggressive is actually safe to consume
because there is some scary research out there you can have issues with your testes you can also have
issues with your heart so i'll say steer clear of this product if you're somebody with a pretty low
risk tolerance like myself like i don't see fidoji aggressive to something that i would
practically take every single day as a matter of fact i took it for a couple of weeks but i
did more and more research on it and it scared me more than it compelled me to take it perhaps this
could be okay if you're somebody with like who's like really struggling with their testosterone
levels maybe you're in a bad mood maybe your sleep isn't right nothing wrong in that case
to give it a shot but we don't know what kind of negative effects it can have not only short term
but long term too sometimes we take a supplement and we don't necessarily feel anything bad then
but then it hits us perhaps months even years afterwards so i'll uh so i'm gonna happily wait
uh to get more research done on this particular ingredient before i'm willing to go ahead and
try this product or this one ingredient itself and the next ingredient i want to point out to you is
tonkat alley we can see here it's listed at 200 milligrams the 200 to 1 ratio this one ingredient
is probably responsible for 70 to 80 percent of the effects of using sigma because tonkat
ali what we know about it is that it's one of the strongest natural testosterone boosters
out there um as a result of taking it for just a few weeks i noticed that i was busting through
like plateaus better sleep um i definitely noticed that i was stronger when it came to the main
compound lifts like bench press deadlift squat that's what you want especially if you're using
a product like this for example i was plateaued on the bench press i could not like do reps of
185 pounds it's not one of my strongest lifts for sure but with the help of tonkat ali i was able to
bust through that plateau and that's what really sold me on tonkat ali and so i have now been using
it for about 18 to 24 months i've really been enjoying it however do keep in mind that with
tonkat alley unlike some of the other nootropics over here you should definitely be taking it with
a meal do not take it fasted especially a dose like this this is 200 milligrams of the 200 to 1
um ratio which is a very strong extract that was definitely a mistake that i made when i was using
tonkat alley as as a beginner i noticed it working and so silly me i added a little bit more i raised
the dosage to 400 to 500 milligrams and because i practiced intermittent fasting i was doing that
in a fasted state and i couldn't figure why i was so unproductive during the day and it was because
of course i should have been taking it with a meal so the way that i'm using tonkat ali
is i'm taking it along with dinner or my biggest meal of the day it seems to work
better for me don't really expect it to do too much when it comes to cognitive benefits you
won't probably notice having a better memory or seeing improvements with like thinking or
planning there's definitely better nootropics out there specifically for that i've talked about my
top five that i'm taking in this video over here you'll likely find that helpful the tonka alley
noticeable results let's take a look at the next ingredient we've got ashwagandha extract
what we know about ashwagandha it's probably the king of herbs especially in the context of
reducing stress levels stress resilience is far stronger than what it was prior 150 milligrams
it's a pretty low dose but the goal here with this product of course is to raise testosterone levels
i don't really think ashwagandha is all that great for improving testosterone levels like if we look
at examine.com which has a nice breakdown of some of the research and can tell you specifically
what a supplement can be used for we can see here some of the benefits of ashwagandha listed we can
see noticeable benefits with decreasing anxiety levels and also decreasing cortisol levels like
of the nootropics out there for reducing cortisol specifically i can only think of two which are
that effective there's of course ashwagandha and then phosphatidylserine which makes us a really
great supplement if you're experiencing very high stress levels maybe you're lacking fulfillment
you're experiencing burnout all signs of having high cortisol levels and as a result of having
high cortisol levels it can actually harm your body composition meaning it will make it harder
for you to build muscle and it will make it more likely that you store fat especially in the love
handles and the waist area next up we can see there's results with decreasing stress levels
but when it comes to testosterone it says that there is some minor research suggesting that it
can do that but if you really look at the research for ashwagandha specifically we can clearly see
that the majority of the research has been done on individuals that have low testosterone levels
however when it comes to individuals that have normal levels of testosterone probably like
yourself they they took ashwagandha and didn't really notice too much happening so for me not
so effective but i know some people that swear by taking ashwagandha to improve their testosterone
levels and our next ingredient is boron which is okay that's nothing really spectacular you
probably won't see jaw-dropping results but at the same time it doesn't seem to have many negative
side effects the odd person noticed it's working so what is it's an essential mineral some of the
great benefits from consuming this mineral include the fact that it's essential for growth and the
maintenance of bone health and bone second that it greatly improves wound healing three that it does
impact the body's use of estrogen testosterone and vitamin d for that it boosts magnesium
absorption and five that it can significantly reduce inflammation that's always a good thing
however when you look at people's experiences and you look at some of the research it's kind
of inconclusive we can see one really great study where it did show that consuming boron on a daily
basis did result in having higher testosterone levels and as you can see in this study over here
however the subjects were taking 11.7 milligrams and there was only eight
individuals eight healthy male volunteers listed over here and then if we take a look back at the
product we can see here that the dose for a two capsule serving is three milligram with boron
six milligrams seems to be the more common those three milligrams definitely seems to be on the
lower side so all things being considered i would give this product a thumbs up i would give it
a two thumbs up but again the major critique is that it's sold out and this is not the first time
this has happened hopefully they can get that all fixed up but assuming that it's available
nothing wrong with giving this a shot it's fairly inexpensive it's got tongkat ali it's got zinc
it's got some of the major ingredients that a lot of people want to try these days and so you all
know that i am not biased you will see my product review here on gorilla mine smooth of which i
pretty much gave it a thumbs down i said that it wasn't too great for the nootropic properties is
it going to be effective for you it depends some people really notice these things working just
like stimulants some people are more receptive to taking caffeine but the great news is that if
you're looking for education on improving your testosterone levels i have a lot of information
covered on my channel i used to actually be on testosterone replacement therapy however i was
able to use natural supplements in order to get my way out of that while maintaining very high energy
levels so be sure to check out this playlist here i've taken a number of nootropics and
actually rated them from one to ten as far as how effective they were at building your testosterone
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