Six ingredients, no declared amounts, and one of them whose whole job is to change how your body handles other things.
Nothing supplied suggests a hazard at two capsules a day. Nothing supplied would let anybody establish that either way, which is the actual problem.
Safety is a question about doses. Not one dose is declared here, so every sentence below is about what the named ingredients do at studied amounts — which may be far more, or far less, than whatever is in this capsule.
One of the six changes the picture more than the rest, and it is not the one most readers would guess.
Black pepper extract is in male-vitality formulas for one reason: piperine, its active constituent, slows the enzymes and the pump that clear other substances out of you. That is the point of putting it in. It is also what makes an undeclared amount of it different from an undeclared amount of maca.
Those three figures come from volunteers given 20 mg of piperine a day for ten days; a separate study at 15 mg a day for three days lengthened how long midazolam stayed active and deepened its sedation. The mechanisms named are inhibition of CYP3A4, CYP2C9 and P-glycoprotein — three of the main routes a great many ordinary prescriptions leave the body by. HoneyPower declares no amount of black pepper extract and no piperine figure, so there is no way to tell from this label whether a serving is nowhere near 15 mg or well past it.
If you take anything on prescription, this is the ingredient to take to a pharmacist — with the bottle, so they can read the panel you and this site have not seen.
Ginseng is the second name on the list and the one with the longest interaction record of the six. Its clinical monograph records that it may enhance the adverse/toxic effect of anticoagulants
— Bleeding may occur
— and may enhance the hypoglycemic effect of hypoglycemia-associated agents
, with monitoring advised.
On the heart, the same monograph records that the QTc interval may be increased
. It also notes that Hypersensitivity and anaphylaxis have been reported
, and describes two cases of new-onset acute manic psychosis associated with high-dose, long-term use.
On whether it does anything, the same source is restrained: Limited high-quality clinical trials have been conducted, and systematic reviews include data from very few studies.
Doses in trials ran 0.5 to 3 g/day
of crude root, with extracts generally ranged from 100 to 400 mg
.
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NIH’s LiverTox gives a usual daily dose of 250 to 750 mg and is blunt about efficacy: in controlled trials, improvements in sexual function were no greater with Tribulus terrestris extracts than with placebo.
Liver-injury likelihood score E*. Case reports include a man whose creatinine rose from 1.1 to 3.1 mg/dL, and a man who drank two litres of tribulus water daily and developed seizures with an ALT forty times the upper limit.
LiverTox records capsules of 250 or 500 mg, the usual dose being one tablet or capsule daily
, and says the clinical effects have not been proven in rigorous prospective controlled trials
.
Likelihood score E. Minor effects may include abdominal discomfort and nausea
, with rare instances of hypersensitivity reactions, skin rash and allergic dermatitis
.
Both of those dose figures are whole capsules of a single ingredient. HoneyPower puts six ingredients in one capsule and declares the weight of none of them, so whether either figure is anywhere near relevant is not knowable from this label.
There is no evidence of adverse reactions to macaand interactions are
None well documented.It does advise that people with thyroid conditions avoid it, because of glucosinolates, and advises against use in pregnancy and lactation for lack of data.
not recommended in children younger than 12 months due to increased risk of botulism. That does not bear on an adult capsule, and it is listed here because it is the only hard safety line the monograph draws.
Most supplement labels carry a short warning naming pregnancy, nursing, medication and medical conditions as reasons to consult a doctor first. This site has not seen HoneyPower’s. No photograph of the bottle was supplied, so no warning text is transcribed on this site, because inventing one would be worse than printing none.
When the bottle arrives, the warning is the second thing to read after the panel.
Licensed U.S. retail desk — HoneyPower
$294.00 total, free shipping, and the last capsule falls on the last day of the 180-day window.
Order now, $1.63 a dayWhat was and was not priced
This site holds no stock and takes no payment. Only the six-bottle price was supplied to it; the one- and three-bottle totals are set at the checkout and are not printed here, because inventing them would be worse than omitting them. Whatever the sales page shows at the moment you check out governs.
Every figure on it is transcribed from the supplied Supplement Facts panel and checked-out pack, derived by arithmetic from those, or taken from a source on the references page.