Organic Spirulina Powder 5000mg – Spirulina is the king of
greens powder ingredients, the blue green algae has a host of health benefits from
lowering blood pressure to improving immune health. It’s rich in vitamin c and
e as well as having a lot of anti oxidants. This is a good dose and it’s a
great start for ManGreens.
Organic Maca Root Extract 1500mg – Maca root extract is
known for it’s enhancements to the… ahem “gentleman’s area”. It’s been shown to
raise libido effectively in both men and women in double blind trials as well
as improving blood flow to the nether regions. It’s one of only a couple of
ingredients that’s actually been consistently shown to be effective for this
and 1500mg is on the higher side of dosage so all good here. Maybe we’d have preferred
a little less maca and a little more beetroot.
Organic Beetroot Powder 1000mg – This is the bottom end of
beetroot in terms of dosage for it’s benefits. In theory it can lower blood
pressure and increase NO2 flow to the muscles and improve athletic performance.
Which is pretty good, we would’ve preferred a slightly higher amount in
ManGreens, but this is still pretty good.
Moringa Leaf Powder 1000mg – This is good for the liver,
kidneys and heart, it’s in a good dose, decent inclusion.
Spinach Powder 1000mg – Spinach powder is a common
ingredient in greens powder, rich in vitamins and anti oxidants. Pretty
standard, but a good inclusion none the less, nothing special, nothing wrong.
Ashwagandha 600mg – 600mg is the ideal dosage of Ashwagandha
for boosting male hormone so this is a good inclusion, it also has the benefit
of improving sleep quality and lowering cortisol build up which can further
improve hormone production.
Turmeric Root Powder 500mg – This is the one negative point
in our ManGreens Review. 500mg would be ok, if it was curcumin extract from
turmeric, unfortunately Turmeric is only 10-30% curcumin and 500mg is the ideal
dose for curcumin. This would’ve had great benefits to joint and guy health if
it was the right extract as well as being a potent anti inflammatory.
Coleus Forskohlii Powder 250mg – One of the less effective
ingredients for hormone production, it’s fine, but it’s a c tier test booster,
it’s efficacy rate is relatively low, although it’s a relatively low percentage
of the man greens formula so we’re not going to knock too many points off the
ManGreens Review score.
Tongkat Ali Powder 125mg – Along with Ashwagandha Tongkat Ali
is one of the better ingredients for boosting male hormone production, across
meta analysis it seems to be effective in about 40% of high quality trials
against placebos, and when taken across all trials between 30-50% of men have a
positive response.
As for some of the claims that ManGreens make about what it leaves out, flax, soy, alfalfa and that they can raise estrogen, this is functionally nonsense when talking about competitor greens powders. Most don’t contain any notable dose of soy, and the estrogen effects were only found at around 40grams of soy protein, no difference was noticed below a daily intake of 20g of soy protein. The milligrams in some greens powders aren’t going to make much difference. And as for flax and alfalfa, the latter isn’t demonstrated at all and flax would again require you to consume more than the entire 15gram dose in most greens powders.