Tongkat Ali - How Health Influencers SCAM You — Transcript

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1. 0:00Health influences are lying to you about
2. 0:02tonkat ali claiming that it can boost
3. 0:04testosterone and improve exercise
4. 0:06performance let's debunk these lies and
5. 0:09then go through how to improve exercise
6. 0:10performance which is important for both
7. 0:13males and females if you have a look at
8. 0:15the six month double-blind
9. 0:17placebo-controlled trial and you go
10. 0:18straight to the conclusion it states
11. 0:20that the combination of Tomcat Ali and
12. 0:23concurrent training improves erectile
13. 0:25function and increases total
14. 0:27testosterone levels in men with Androgen
15. 0:29deficiency if you just relied on that
16. 0:31summary as many Health influencers do
17. 0:34then you'd think that tonkat Ali can
18. 0:36boost testosterone but when you have a
19. 0:38deep look into the paper that's when
20. 0:39Things Fall Apart only 38 people
21. 0:42completed the study so it's a small
22. 0:44underpowered trial particularly because
23. 0:46the participants were split into four
24. 0:49separate groups two groups exercised two
25. 0:51groups didn't two groups took the
26. 0:53placebo or the dummy pill and two groups
27. 0:56took the tonkat Ali having four separate
28. 0:58groups in a small study like this is a
29. 1:00massive problem because for example say
30. 1:02if one person trained really hard in the
31. 1:04exercise group and saw a massive
32. 1:06Improvement in their testosterone that
33. 1:08would skew the results for that entire
34. 1:10group again because the group is so
35. 1:12small equally if one person didn't train
36. 1:14particularly hard that would shift the
37. 1:16results for that entire group now in
38. 1:18larger studies that's not such a big
39. 1:20deal because the groups can balance
40. 1:22themselves out just because of the
41. 1:24numbers involved but in these small
42. 1:25studies that can't happen another
43. 1:27problem with having small groups is that
44. 1:29often the baselines As and whether
45. 1:31participants start before the study
46. 1:33begins they're often not the same so
47. 1:35here we can see that the baselines of
48. 1:37the testosterone levels they're not
49. 1:39exactly the same the group that we're
50. 1:41both exercising and were going to have
51. 1:43the tonkat Ali they started the study
52. 1:45with lower testosterone levels compared
53. 1:47to the other groups and when we look at
54. 1:49the six month results something weird is
55. 1:51happening we can see that the groups
56. 1:53that were exercising they had increases
57. 1:55in their testosterone levels that is
58. 1:57what we would expect but crucially there
59. 1:59were no significant differences between
60. 2:01the group that were taking the placebo
61. 2:02and the group that were taking the
62. 2:04tonkat Ali but here's where things get
63. 2:06weird the group that weren't exercising
64. 2:08and were only taking the tonkat alley
65. 2:10they had the highest levels of
66. 2:12testosterone after six months overall
67. 2:15then we've got a small study that's
68. 2:16underpowered with very small groups it's
69. 2:19almost impossible to interpret these
70. 2:21results so when we're seeing weird
71. 2:22results like what we see in the study we
72. 2:25cannot rely on them and we should
73. 2:27absolutely not be making grandiose
74. 2:29claims that Tomcat Ali boosts
75. 2:31testosterone levels plus the write-up of
76. 2:34the study is really weird it claims that
77. 2:36multiple randomized clinical trials show
78. 2:38that tonkad Ali can improve testosterone
79. 2:41levels but when you have a look at these
80. 2:43four separate studies they are not
81. 2:44randomized controlled trials one of them
82. 2:46is a before and after study so it's not
83. 2:49a randomized controlled trial another
84. 2:51one is the same it's a before and after
85. 2:53study the third one is a single cell
86. 2:55study and it's only the last one that's
87. 2:58a randomized placebo-controlled trial
88. 3:00and in that study there were no
89. 3:01significant differences between the
90. 3:03placebo group and the tonkat Ali group
91. 3:06so when I was going through the write-up
92. 3:07of this paper I got a strong sense of
93. 3:10bias from the authors but that's just
94. 3:12one study let's have a look at a 2022
95. 3:15meta-analysis that combined all of the
96. 3:17relevant clinical studies together
97. 3:18looking at testosterone and tonkat Ali
98. 3:21the analysis only found five eligible
99. 3:24randomized controlled trials that
100. 3:26measured testosterone levels the trouble
101. 3:28is though three out of the five studies
102. 3:30that were included were at risk of bias
103. 3:32because of poor methodology used in
104. 3:34those separate studies furthermore the
105. 3:36analysis found a publication bias
106. 3:39publication bias is where only positive
107. 3:41results are published and negative
108. 3:43results are swept under the rug moving
109. 3:45to the conclusion a conclusion that I
110. 3:47completely agree with it states that
111. 3:49this systematic analysis of the
112. 3:51literature highlights the possible
113. 3:53possible use of Tomcat Ali
114. 3:55supplementation for enhancing
115. 3:57testosterone production although more
116. 3:59research is required before its use in
117. 4:01clinical practice and separate studies
118. 4:03looking specifically at muscle
119. 4:05performance and tonkat Ali there were no
120. 4:07significant differences between the
121. 4:09placebo and the tonkat alley groups nor
122. 4:11were there any differences in
123. 4:13testosterone levels so from the current
124. 4:15research that we've got so far we've
125. 4:17only got a few small studies looking at
126. 4:19tonkat Ali and testosterone levels and
127. 4:21many of those studies are biased we
128. 4:23don't know for certain what effect
129. 4:25tonkat Ali will have on testosterone
130. 4:27levels anyone making grandiose claims
131. 4:29about tonkat ali either at best have not
132. 4:32done their research correctly or they
133. 4:34are willfully lying to you to sell
134. 4:36supplements instead if you want to boost
135. 4:38your testosterone levels and improve
136. 4:40your muscle performance which is both
137. 4:42important for males and females here is
138. 4:44what you do by the way a little known
139. 4:46fact is that females have got higher
140. 4:48levels of blood testosterone compared to
141. 4:50estrogen we know that if people are
142. 4:52overweight and they lose weight they
143. 4:54boost their testosterone levels so in
144. 4:57addition to a healthy diet we've got the
145. 4:59game changing in class of medications
146. 5:00called glp-1 to help patients on their
147. 5:03weight loss Journey we also know that
148. 5:05testosterone levels rise after
149. 5:07resistance exercise so it always comes
150. 5:09back to a healthy diet and regular
151. 5:11exercise but if you still have low
152. 5:13levels of testosterone and you're
153. 5:15symptomatic that's when medical doctors
154. 5:16such as myself consider testosterone
155. 5:19replacement therapy it's your health
156. 5:21your decision just know that when it
157. 5:23comes to tonkat Ali the evidence is weak
158. 5:25and we should not be making grandiose
159. 5:27claims that it boosts testosterone
160. 5:29levels instead if you want to explore a
161. 5:31supplement that does have some research
162. 5:33to improve muscle performance make sure
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