Cellucor P6 Review

Cellucor P6 Original Ingredients

Some of the ingredients in Cellucor p6 original are good, some less so, overall it's a middle of the road option with a dated formula, it will help with muscle growth, it just doesn't stack up very well as better testosterone boosters.

Ashwagandha Extract - One of the most well known testosterone boosters on the market, there's been a lot of research ashwagandha over the years and it has a lot of benefits beyond simply raising testosterone levels. [2] It also has benefits to mood regulation and stress hormones being shown to reduce cortisol build up, especially in men with chronic stress. And as cortisol build up reduces testosterone levels there's an additional benefit. With it being the main ingredient we assume that it's close to the 600mg ideal dosage. 

Fenugreek Seed Extract - Fenugreek Seed has also been shown in double blind studies to raise testosterone levels in healthy and trained men. As with ashwagandha it's in a lot of the best testosterone boosters. [3] 

Ovine Placenta Powder - This is where things start to drift into the realms of pseudoscience, it's not uncommon for testosterone boosters to include a gimmick, but this one has pretty much zero evidence to support it aside from one rodent study. And most animal studies don't translate to human use.

Agaricus Bisporus - Basically this is a fancy name for white button mushrooms, we've seen this in a few test booster supplements over the years, but it doesn't actually do anything. The studies that backed it, have later been debunked, another misstep for cellucor p6 as button mushrooms belong in an omelette, not in a testosterone booster.

Nettle Root Extract - This ingredient is OK, but just OK, it's normally the worst ingredient in the best testosterone boosters. Which we know is an oxymoron, but whilst it does work, it's perhaps 1% as effective as the ingredients they missed out like panax ginseng.

Longjack Root Extract - Also known as tongkat ali, this was a very promising ingredient a few years back, and it does work to a point, but like nettles, it's not one of the best option, it does reduce cortisol levels, and has some potential for improving blood flow, as for how much it will raise natural testosterone levels, when the cortisol benefit overlaps with ashwagandha is relatively unnecessary. 

If they had skipped a few of the worse ingredients and replaced them with DAA and Ginseng we'd have been looking at a good supplement, but cellucor p6 original with have some benefits, there's just better options for boosting testosterone levels.