Genuine tongkat ali extract is a wonderful enrichment of anybody's health and life. It's proven to help in preventing cancer, it lowers blood pressure (and thereby extends a person's life span), it works against obesity in women and men (and has even been patented for this), it gives men a more athletic appearance (proven in a scientific study with real people), and it makes for a better life overall because it improves libido and sexual pleasure ... and all of this without side effects worth mentioning.

With all these pluses, practically everybody has a good reason to add tongkat ali extract to one's daily diet. And actually, in Malaysia, the country that once had forests full of tongkat ali trees (all eaten up), most people indeed use tongkat ali every day. If one checks at a Carrefour or Tesco in Malaysia, one will notice that there are more brands of coffee on sale that do contain tongkat ali than there are coffees without. In Malaysia, even Nestle sells Nescafe with tongkat ali.

But tongkat ali has now become scarce. In Malaysia it's meanwhile a protected plant, specifically guarded by forest rangers. In Thailand, tongkat ali root powder, gram by gram, is more expensive than Viagra and weighted on gold scales. The only country where there still is some stock in the wild is Indonesia.

Everybody has a good reason to make tongkat ali part of his or her daily diet. But tongkat ali is already hard to find, and therefore expensive. So, what most people buy is not tongkat ali but cheap shit.

The international market for herbal supplements is totally under-regulated. Unscrupulous merchants, mostly on the Internet, can sell about anything and claim it's tongkat ali extract when in fact, it's just potato starch with some food colouring.

And to make sure their cheap raw materials have an effect at all, they may add some sildenafil analogues that can be bought cheaply from dealers of chemical raw products. You're a fool if you buy such junk that isn't even licensed as safe in pets, and you don't know whether in three years time, you get a brain cancer or a liver cancer (more likely).

There are two rules that you have to observe when buying tongkat ali:

Rule ONE is to buy something that is a licensed product. A product that has been registered with the health department of a country. It's your health, and ultimately your life, that you are gambling with.

Rule TWO is to buy something from a proper source. From a company that exists in the real world, not just on the Internet. NEVER buy herbal supplements from an Internet spam site. It doesn't mean that you should not order over the Internet. But look at the website from where you order. Spam sites make unsound promises such as a full-money back guarantee. Span sites also typically make outlandish claims. And look at the credentials on their site. Are they genuine? Do the photos on their site prove that the company really exists, or are the photos just stolen on the Internet? Everybody nowadays can do a Google Image search for some impressive laboratory photos, and some glossy pictures of happy elderly couple or muscle-packed athletes. Such photos prove nothing.

And don't fall for lower prices. You may get what you pay for: cheap shit instead of genuine tongkat ali extract.