Well, I really had to crap my pen and write about this and, well, "warn" you about very mild Tongkat Ali products there are in the market.

I have been using Tongkat Ali for few years now, in cycles - taking it 2 weeks and then 1 week not to take it and so on, as they recommend. My experience is clear - Tongkat Ali really works!

Beginning from 35 - 40 years, man's testosterone level starts to decline causing many health problems - called andropause. In some men this could happen earlier than in others, depending on their ways of life. Tongkat Ali's functionality is to restore man's testosterone to the level it was when he was young. I'm not talking about any bodybuilding hormone monsters. They use huge dosages and often synthetic products. I wanted only to get normal level back, nothing more.

Like always, when you take some medicinal stuff, dosage is important. Not too much, not too little. This concerns Tongkat Ali as well. I tried couple of tongkat products before I understood the importance of the dosage. My experience is: 40 grams of Tongkat Ali normal root powder a day! At least. On the Internet you can find articles where men are telling about similar experiences.

40 grams a day is huge amount comparing to the bottle sizes they sell on the internet. Smallest bottle I have seen for sale, contains 30 capsules @80 mg of tongkat ali root powder (non extracted) and could cost 16 dollars. 30 x 80mg = 2400mg = 2.4 grams! Well, by taking 16 bottles a day, the dosage would be sufficient. But it'd costs you 264 dollars a day! All right, maybe you get huge discount buying 16 bottles a day.

Luckily there are also sellers whose products are extracted. For example, Tongkat Ali 1:50 extract is 50 times concentrated, and usually they are sold in 200 or 400mg capsules. That is, one 400mg capsule containing 1:50 extract is equivalent to 20.000mg = 20 grams normal non extracted root powder! So, 2 capsules a day is sufficient.

Look at the table below and see the bare truth. There we are comparing 3 examples, non extracted, extract 1:50 and LJ100 (= extract 1:100). These products are taken from internet and they are good examples what you get buying them.

In the table we have calculated the "power" of 1 capsule simply multiplying mg per capsule by extraction rate. That is how much one capsule would be transformed into normal non extracted root powder. How many capsules to take a day is calculated dividing that daily dosage 40 grams by power of 1 capsule.

Tongkat Ali is absolutely worth trying. But buying non extracted root powder is waste of time and money. Forget those crab dealers who only damage and spoil Tongkat Ali's reputation.