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Mixed products, anyone?

By Serge Kreutz
Version 1.0. July 2009

I always advise against products that mix tongkat ali with something else.

If I want tongkat ali extract, I buy a tongkat ali extract product.

And if I want pineapple extract, then I by a pineapple extract product.

If I would want to have the effect of both, I take some trongkat ali extract capsules, and I take some pineapple extract capsules.

I would never buy anything that mixes the two (not that I would be interested in pineapple extract anyway... just an example).

The reason is:

I want to know what I am taking. And how much of it.

Tongkat ali is probably the most expensive herbal out there, and pineapples are dirt cheap.

Anybody who comes to the market with a mixture of the two will probably put a lot of pineapples in there, and just traces of tongkat ali.

But there are other reasons why I never buy mixed products.

It's because even well-reputed companies do sometimes come up with odd mixtures. In an odd mixture, the expensive testosterone-enhancing effect of tongkat ali may just be cancelled out by what else is in.

Take a look at the following link about the Red Kat tongkat ali brand:

http://ezinearticles.com/?Biotest-Red-Kat-Male-Testosterone-Booster-Discontinued&id=2194765

The product was supposed to be a testosterone booster, but, as explained in the above linked-to site:

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Sclaremax is a trademarked compound derived from the plant Salvia Sclarea, or Clary Sage. This is an odd ingredient to find in a male sex pill as Clary Sage is an estrogen-stimulating herb used as a supplement for women to ease problems associated with menstruation and menopause.

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Sclaremax is what the tongkat ali in Red Kat was mixed with.

Here a printscreen of the referred-to article.

The lesson to be learned from this is: if you want tongkat ali extract, buy tongkat ali extract from a company that sells pure tongkat ali extract, not mixed with anything else.

And mind you: buy it from a genuine tongkat ali extract producing company, not from a Internet trader who just acts as a spamming middle man.