A premium grade pure Horny Goat Weed Extract at the optimum strength of 45% Icariins, which is more than four times higher than many proprietary brands.
Natural Testosterone Booster That Also Aids Recovery
Also known as Epimedium or Yin Yang Huo (Horny Goat Weed is believed to be a rough English translation of this Chinese name.)
We offer a premium grade pure Horny Goat Weed Extract at the optimum strength of 45% Icariins, which is more than four times higher than many proprietary brands. Some other brands use an unclearly defined strength ratio of something like 1.20 but the small print often reveals an Icariin level of around 10%, which is almost as low as it is possible to get. Icariin is the "active ingredient" in Horny Goat Weed and can be found in varying standardised extracts from as low as 5% up to about 45% which is generally considered the optimum potency and is what we supply.
Horny Goat Weed is recognised as a powerful testosterone booster which can dramatically increase the sex drive of both men and women. Men have reported increases in erectile power and performance equal to the prescription blue pill but without any of the side effects.
Its ability to increase nitric oxide levels makes it invaluable in exercise recovery for serious bodybuilders and athletes, who often use it in conjunction with Tongkat Ali which we also sell on this site as a pure and potent extract.
Unlike many other brands available, there is absolutely nothing added to our Horny Goat Weed - it is just pure potent extract.
According to legend, the aphrodisiac properties of Horny Goat Weed were discovered by a Chinese goat herder who noticed increased sexual activity in his flock after they ate the plant.
Icariin is purported to work by increasing levels of nitric oxide, which relax smooth muscle. Like sildenafil (Viagra), Icariin, the active compound in Horny Goat Weed, inhibits the activity of PDE-5. In vitro assays have demonstrated that Icariin inhibits PDE-5 with an IC50 of around 1 micromolar, while sildenafil has an IC50 of only about 6.6 nanomolar (.0066 micromolar) and vardenafil (Levitra) has an IC50 of just 0.7 nanomolar (.0007 micromolar).
A recently published Italian study modified Icariin structurally and investigated a number of derivatives. Inhibitory concentrations for PDE-5 close to sildenafil could be reached. Moreover, the most potent PDE-5 inhibitor of this series was also found to be a less potent inhibitor of phosphodiesterase-6 (PDE-6) and cyclic adenosine monophosphate-phosphodiesterase (cAMP-PDE), thus showing Icariin to have more specificity for PDE-5 than sildenafil. Our 45% Icariin extract is very close to the successful derivative used in the studies.
Basically what the scientific jargon tells us is that Horny Goat Weed can work naturally as well or even better than the chemical blue pill for many users.
Typical dose is one or two 450mg capsules a day
