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How To Choose A Men’s Performance Supplement
Ten questions, in order of how much each one tells you. The first is about the dose and the last is about the guarantee, which is the reverse of the order most marketing puts them in. At the end this website’s own product is scored against the same ten, in public, and it fails four of them.
A checklist is only worth something if the person publishing it is willing to run their own product through it. That is the last section on this page.
The ten questions, in order
- Are the amounts published, per ingredient? The single most informative line on any supplement label. A panel with names and no numbers cannot be compared with anything, at any price. This question is first because it decides whether the next nine can be answered at all.
- Do those amounts reach the doses used in trials? Look up two or three of the named ingredients and compare. The ingredient guide has the trial doses in one table. A tenth of a trial dose is a gesture toward an ingredient.
- Is the extract specified? Standardisation, extract ratio and plant part. “Ginseng” can mean three different species and three different plant parts, and the trials used one of them.
- Does the panel contain ingredients that failed in trials? Tribulus is the test case. Its presence is not dangerous, but it tells you the formula was assembled from category convention rather than from evidence.
- Is there a published certificate of analysis for the batch? Identity, potency, microbiology and heavy metals, dated, with a lot number matching the bottle. Rare in this category, and the single biggest quality differentiator where it exists.
- Has the finished product been trialled? Almost never. The honest answer is usually no, and a brand that says so plainly is telling you something useful about the rest of its claims.
- Does the marketing stay inside what a supplement may claim? Structure and function language, with the FDA disclaimer. Quantified outcome promises and disease claims are a warning about the seller rather than about the formula.
- Is there a one-time payment, or a subscription? Auto-ship with a hard cancellation route is the most common way this category takes money from people who wanted to stop.
- Is there a telephone number and a returns address? Both, on the site, before you buy. A product with neither is telling you in advance how a refund will go.
- How long is the guarantee, and does it cover opened bottles? Sixty days covers a fair trial. A guarantee that excludes opened bottles cannot be used, because using the product is how you find out.
Why the order matters
Most marketing in this category answers questions nine and ten loudly and question one not at all, because nine and ten are easy to do well and one is expensive.
That inversion is worth naming. A generous guarantee and a responsive telephone line are real and they are worth paying for, particularly in a market with the adulteration record the FDA documents. But they are compensations for an unevaluable product, not evidence that the product works. A bottle with published doses at trial levels and a thirty-day guarantee is a better buy than an undisclosed blend with ninety days, and almost nobody markets it that way.
Red flags that should end a purchase
- A promised effect within an hour. Botanicals do not work that way. Something that does is usually not a botanical, which is exactly the adulteration pattern the FDA documents.
- A specific percentage increase in testosterone attached to a multi-ingredient product that has never been trialled.
- A countdown timer or a stock counter. Manufactured urgency has nothing to do with the product and everything to do with stopping you from reading the label.
- Before-and-after photographs. Not evidence, and not verifiable.
- A named doctor with no verifiable credential. A fabricated authority signal is worse than none, because a reader cannot tell a real one from a false one.
- No telephone number anywhere on the site. The clearest single predictor of a refund going badly.
- Forty reviews sharing four sentences. That is summary copy rendered as testimonials.
The scorecard, applied to this website’s own product
Here is Alpha Erec, the product this website distributes, scored against the ten questions above. Four lines are failures and they are in the same table as the passes.
| Question | Alpha Erec | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Amounts published per ingredient | No figure for any of the six | Fails |
| 2. Doses reach trial levels | Unknowable, because of row 1 | Cannot be assessed |
| 3. Extract specified | Plant names only, no standardisation stated | Fails |
| 4. Contains an ingredient that failed in trials | Tribulus terrestris | Fails |
| 5. Published certificate of analysis | Lot and reference held, no published report | Fails |
| 6. Finished product trialled | No, and this site says so | No, as expected in this category |
| 7. Claims stay inside structure and function | All three label claims do | Passes |
| 8. One-time payment | Yes, on every pack | Passes |
| 9. Telephone number and returns address | Both, in the footer of every page | Passes |
| 10. Guarantee length and opened bottles | 60 days from purchase, opened included | Passes |
Four clear passes, four clear failures and two rows that cannot be assessed because of the first failure. That is an honest picture of a product that does well on everything a seller controls and poorly on everything a formulator controls.
If you want the version of this in our own words rather than in a checklist, the ingredients page prints the trial doses beside a column reading “not published” six times, and the quality page lists the five assurances that are missing.
What would make us rewrite this page
Three changes would move four of those rows, and they are all within the manufacturer’s gift.
- Print the milligrams. Six numbers. It would turn rows one and two from failures into something a buyer could evaluate, and it is the single biggest improvement available to this product.
- Specify the extracts. Standardisation and plant part, particularly for ginseng and ashwagandha, where the trials used specific standardised material.
- Publish a certificate of analysis per lot. Identity, potency, microbiology and heavy metals, matched to the lot code on the bottle.
If any of those happens, this page changes and the review date at the foot of it moves. Until then the scorecard stands as it is written, on the website that sells the product it scores.
Sources cited in this guide
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Sexual enhancement and energy product notifications: hidden ingredients in sexual enhancement and energy products. https://www.fda.gov/drugs/medication-health-fraud-notifications/sexual-enhancement-and-energy-product-notifications
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Questions and answers on dietary supplements. https://www.fda.gov/food/information-consumers-using-dietary-supplements/questions-and-answers-dietary-supplements
- National Institutes of Health, Office of Dietary Supplements. Dietary supplements: what you need to know. https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/WYNTK-Consumer/
- National Institutes of Health, Office of Dietary Supplements. Dietary supplements for exercise and athletic performance. Fact sheet for consumers. https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/ExerciseAndAthleticPerformance-Consumer/
- National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health. Dietary and herbal supplements. https://www.nccih.nih.gov/health/dietary-and-herbal-supplements
- Qureshi A, Naughton DP, Petroczi A. A systematic review on the herbal extract Tribulus terrestris and the roots of its putative aphrodisiac and performance enhancing effect. J Diet Suppl. 2014;11(1):64-79. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24559105/
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Every page, every journal post, the bottle facts and the ingredients go through review by Dr. Arthur Burnett II, MD before they ship. We write these pages from the Alpha Erec label, the vendor’s own listing artwork and this desk’s paperwork. We cite published research for every named botanical, and we print “not published” wherever a figure is not disclosed rather than estimating it. Where the manufacturer’s sales page claims more than the label supports, we say so on the page. The roundel beside this note is one of those cases: it says “Doctor Formulated” and names no clinician, so we treat it as a manufacturer’s statement about its own process. Corrections go to [email protected] and move the review date forward. Last reviewed September 2026 by Dr. Arthur Burnett II, MD.