{"id":730,"date":"2013-01-13T18:44:58","date_gmt":"2013-01-13T18:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bodybuilding.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=730"},"modified":"2015-02-12T15:20:14","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T20:20:14","slug":"testofen-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/bodybuilding\/testofen-review.html","title":{"rendered":"Testofen\u2122: The Fenugreek Testosterone Boosting Connection?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Testofen is the name of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/vitamins\/fenugreek-review.html\">fenugreek<\/a> derived compound created by Gencor Pacific for the purpose of boosting testoterone levels. It is standardized for &#8220;Fenuside&#8221; &#8212; which is what you&#8217;ll also see on label of any Testofen-containing product you may be interested in.<\/p>\n<p>Fenugreek&#8217;s &#8220;claim to fame&#8221; (according to GP) is that it contains variety of powerful bioactive compounds, such as protodioscin and steroidal saponins (incidentally, protodioscin &#8212; a chemical &#8220;cousin&#8221; of DHEA &#8212; is also present in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/bodybuilding\/tribulus-review.html\">tribulus<\/a>, another product marketed as a natural testosterone booster).<\/p>\n<p>According to the manufacturer, &#8220;Fenuside&#8221; is a set of potent saponin glycosides unique to Testofen that have been specially extracted and standardized to yield the &#8220;highest potency and purity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gencor Pacific has conducted several in-house studies in animals and humans to demonstrate that Testofen:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>improves libido and erectile function (rat)<\/li>\n<li>has anabolic and androgenic effects (rat)<\/li>\n<li>increases bioavailable (free) testosterone (human)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the first study, Testofen (5 &#8211; 25 mg\/kg) increased mounting frequency and other measures of sexual activity.<\/p>\n<p>The second study demonstrated that castrated rats given 25 mg\/kg Testofen had increases in seminal vesicle, prostate and levator ani muscle weights similar to controls injected with 0.5 mg testosterone.<\/p>\n<p>The third study was a randomized, placebo-controlled, in-house clinical trial with 60 men, half of whom took 600 mg Testofen per day. After 8 weeks, the users&#8217; free testosterone levels had nearly doubled, from an average of 17.76 pg\/ml to 35.29 pg\/ml.<\/p>\n<p>On the basis of these tests, the makers of Testofen propose that it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><b>1.<\/b> Stimulates natural androgen production by acting on the adrenals and pituitary gland.<\/p>\n<p>and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><b>2.<\/b> Binds independently to testosterone receptor sites to stimulate androgenic\/anabolic responses.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, these results need to be taken with a grain of salt, as promising as they may be.<\/p>\n<p>In-house studies can certainly be credible, but it would be really nice to have some independently performed, peer-reviewed studies confirming Testofen&#8217;s testosterone-boosting potential. Likewise, it would be interesting to see if Testofen has any genuine effects on muscle mass and\/or strength.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Testofen is the name of the fenugreek derived compound created by Gencor Pacific for the purpose of boosting testoterone levels. It is standardized for &#8220;Fenuside&#8221; &#8212; which is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[151],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/bodybuilding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/bodybuilding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/bodybuilding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/bodybuilding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/bodybuilding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=730"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/bodybuilding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1994,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/bodybuilding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions\/1994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/bodybuilding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/bodybuilding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/bodybuilding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}