...and I'm not even talking about soy.

If you're a man and you take a "greens" supplement (or maybe you're thinking about taking one), you need to read this...

 

99% of all "greens" supplements contain estrogen-promoting and/or testosterone-reducing ingredients.

This was an eye-opener for me.

Even though I knew that certain plants and herbs can definitely be pro-estrogenic, I never thought to look at the ingredients in my "greens" supplement to see if there was anything like that in there.

And sure enough, 2 out of those 4 ingredients were actually IN the powder I was currently taking.

Here we go...

 

1. FLAXSEED OR FLAX OIL

Flax and flax products (seeds, oils) are incredibly popular and marketed as a health supplement in their own right, which has lead to supplement companies including them in greens supplements because of the market awareness of the customer base. The problem, obviously, is that flax increases estrogen maybe more than any other food.

Flax are very dense in compounds called “lignans”. Lignans aren’t only estrogenic, but some studies have shown that they reduce overall and free testosterone levels. Lignans increase SHBG (sex hormone binding globulin) which binds “free testosterone” rendering it useless, unable to move freely throughout the body and do what testosterone does (repairs tissue, among other things).

 

2. GREEN TEA

In an Indian study, researchers gave 3 groups of rats different amounts of green tea. They had a mild dosage, moderate dosage, and a high dosage. There have been other studies done on the effects of green tea on the testosterone levels of rats, but this one was the most interesting.

The findings were pretty incredible. The three groups saw declines in testosterone levels being greater with each increase in dosage: -25% in the mild group, -60% in the moderate group, and -78% in the high group.

 

3. MINT

The claims that greens companies use with mint is that it can help with sleep quality (borderline at best), indigestion, and cramps. What they don’t tell you is that, while more research is needed, mint appears to lower testosterone levels, reducing total testosterone levels by a whopping 53% in one study done on rats, and free testosterone levels by an incredible 30% in a study with women.

 

4. ALFALFA

We talked about the lignans in Flaxseeds as one of the forms of phytoestrogens, well, alfalfa has another form of phytoestrogen called coumestans. Having the highest concentration of coumestans makes alfalfa highly estrogenic, yet you’ll find it in a myriad of different greens supplements.

Again, it’s all about market awareness. Like Flaxseeds people think that Alfalfa is great for you, ignorant of the estrogenic properties and the fact that there are other things that provide greater benefits that don’t have the phytoestrogens that alfalfa has (like spirulina).

 

So what other option do we have for getting our greens?

My friend and colleague, Chad Howse, was the one who originally gave me the heads-up on those pro-estrogenic ingredients in my greens.

I've known Chad for years...fellow Canadian, in fact...and his whole focus is on helping men live their best lives, through training, nutrition and relationships.

Not long ago, I was talking with him about what he was up to these days and he said...

"Nick, I've been doing a TON of research on all these greens supplements guys are taking. Did you know that most of them (like pretty much all of them) have ingredients that can mess with your testosterone levels?"

With that he proceeded to run through the list of those 4 ingredients that I mentioned and the research that shows how they can increase estrogen levels while also negatively affecting testosterone levels.

"So I've actually been spending a lot of time and money formulating my OWN greens supplement to address this problem. You wanna try some?" he asked.

"Absolutely." I responded. "I've never even considered that before but it just makes so much sense."

So Chad immediately shipped a bottle of his new formulation out to me, that he calls "Man Greens" (the name pretty much says it all!).

I've actually been using this for about 7 months now and I like it a LOT.

The taste is VERY good (orange flavor) and the ingredients list tells you EXACTLY how much and what is in the bottle...no proprietary formulas.

If you'd like to know what each of these ingredients specifically does for you, he also has that information on his site here (about 2/3 of the way down the page...you should probably just read the whole page, actually, its got good info on it).

 

One Year Guarantee and Free Worldwide Shipping

This is one thing that I like about Chad...he genuinely wants to help men improve themselves.

So with that in mind, he wanted to make sure you felt ZERO risk if you decided to try this stuff.

He's offering you a FULL YEAR to test it out and if you don't like it, you get a full refund, no questions asked.

And it ships FREE...worldwide, which is INCREDIBLY rare for a supplement.

 

Bottom Line Is This...

You work hard in the gym...you try and eat healthy. You take supplements to improve your nutrition, not hold you back by bringing down your testosterone levels.

And now that you have the knowledge that most greens powders have ingredients that could be holding you back, you can choose something different.

Learn more about Man Greens here. This stuff is absolutely worth trying out.

Nick Nilsson
The Mad Scientist of Muscle

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