SodaPeak FAQ: 45 Questions and Answers

A capsule dietary supplement sold in the United States by Sodapeakwellness as an authorized merchant. Sixty capsules to a bottle, a 2-capsule serving and 30 servings, so 30 days. The front reads “SUPPORTS HEALTHY MUSCLE” over a crest, and the brand mark is Vitalifes.

One thing: a Test Boost Proprietary Blend of 1,200 mg containing eight ingredients, with no individual amounts disclosed. In printed order: horny goat weed, tongkat ali, saw palmetto, nettle root, wild yam, sarsaparilla, orchic substance and boron amino acid chelate.

Because the seller’s brief and both supplied marketing images list six. The panel on the bottle lists eight. The two they leave out are orchic substance, which is bovine testicle tissue, and boron amino acid chelate.

Bovine testicle extract. It is the seventh of the eight ingredients on the panel, it has no human clinical evidence that we could find, and a consumer monograph states there is not enough reliable information to know whether it is safe.

No. The Other Ingredients line declares a gelatin capsule, and US regulation defines gelatin as collagen from cattle and swine. The blend also contains bovine testicle tissue. A vegetarian seal nonetheless appears in this product’s marketing assets, and that is a contradiction we publish rather than resolve.

Not disclosed. The label gives one total for all eight. What the printed order does give you is a ceiling for each position, and that is what the budget page is about.

Yes, and it is transcribed in full on this site from the supplied photograph of the bottle back. So is the directions and warnings panel.

The label says “Distributed by: Vitalifes” and gives no city, state or ZIP. 21 CFR 101.5 requires a place of business as well as a name.

For this category it is a reasonable size — far larger than most of the blends we have assessed. That is exactly what makes it interesting: it is big enough that some ingredients could be at a studied dose, so the question stops being “is there enough?” and becomes “enough of which?”

Three of the eight sit in positions that allow it: tongkat ali, saw palmetto and boron. One — nettle root — sits in a position that mathematically forbids it. Four have no established human dose to compare against.

No. Saw palmetto and boron are mutually exclusive. If saw palmetto is at its 320 mg dose, descending order puts the first three ingredients at 960 mg or more, leaving at most 240 mg for the last five — and descending order then requires those five to total at least 300 mg for boron to reach its dose. That is the whole argument of this site.

It is fourth of eight, so its ceiling is 1,200 ÷ 4 = 300 mg. The lowest dose in its published trials is 360 mg a day. The position forbids it regardless of how the blend is split.

It is first, so it could be as much as the whole 1,200 mg. There is no oral human dose to compare that against: a 2019 dose-escalation study of its marker compound found very low or undetectable blood levels at every dose it tested.

It changes every figure. The panel’s 1,200 mg is per 2-capsule serving. The side panel says one or two capsules. At one capsule the blend is 600 mg and every ceiling on this site halves.

Nothing on the label says so. No icariin percentage, no eurycomanone figure, no fatty acid content, no elemental boron figure. Without a standardization figure a milligram of extract is not comparable to a milligram in a trial.

Unknown. “Boron amino acid chelate” is a raw material rather than an element, and common trade grades run around 5% elemental boron. No specification was supplied and the label states none.

“SUPPORTS HEALTHY MUSCLE” on the front, with the asterisk leading to the FDA disclaimer. The marketing adds stamina, energy, strength, vitality, immune support, focus support and overall wellness.

The label does not say. The name implies testosterone, while the printed claims are all structure/function wording that avoids it. FDA’s rules do treat the name of a product as one factor in whether a claim is a disease claim, and we found nothing saying “testosterone booster” is itself one.

We cannot tell you, and neither can the label. Of the eight ingredients, one — tongkat ali — has a systematic review reporting an effect on total testosterone. One had testosterone measured and unchanged. One inhibits the enzyme that makes DHT. Four have no human evidence at all.

It works on a different part of the system rather than against them directly, and the direction is the opposite of what the blend’s name implies. One six-month trial measured prostate tissue DHT falling 32%, and MSKCC lists decreased libido among its side effects.

The common claim is that its diosgenin converts into DHEA or progesterone in the body. MSKCC states plainly that “there is no evidence that the human body can convert diosgenin into progesterone”. The conversion happens in a laboratory, not in a person.

Not that we were told, and we could not find a trial of it.

The side panel says: as a dietary supplement, take one (1) or two (2) capsules daily with an 8 oz. glass of water. The Facts panel says the serving is 2 capsules. Confirm against the bottle you received.

The label says both things. Everything measured on the panel describes two. If you take one, you are taking half of every figure on this site.

Not specified on the label. Where a label is silent this site does not invent an instruction. Consistency matters more than the hour.

Not specified. The label asks for an 8 oz. glass of water, which is worth following for any capsule.

The trials behind these ingredients ran from seven days to six months, and the one with the best evidence ran 12 weeks. The seller’s own published figure for the most common wait is four to eight weeks.

The label says: keep away from heat, light, and humidity to preserve freshness, and store in a cool, dry place.

Take the next one as normal. The label says not to exceed the recommended dose, so do not double up.

No price was supplied to this website. The brief says the pack prices are the ones printed on the marketplace listing at checkout, so that is where they are. This site does not publish figures it was not given.

“As printed on the marketplace listing.” No number was supplied to us. Read the listing before you buy, and write the term down.

Call the order desk with the order ID. Send full name, email and order ID with the return to 200 Park Avenue South, Floor 8, New York, NY 10003. Buyer pays return postage; use tracking.

Three to five business days for the seller to credit it after they receive the return, then five to ten days for your card to show it.

Not published to this site. It appears at checkout.

Not published. Orders ship from the United States unless the sales page says otherwise, and tracking arrives in the order email.

The label carries the standard cautions and we have no adverse event report for this product. What we do not have is any test document, and three of the eight ingredients have no human safety literature to speak of.

Ask a pharmacist first. Those drugs inhibit 5-alpha reductase and so does saw palmetto, which is the third ingredient on this panel.

Tell whoever orders the test that you are taking it. The NEJM trial found no PSA change from saw palmetto, and a clinician reading your result should still know what you are on.

Bovine testicle tissue is not on FDA’s list of prohibited cattle materials and is not a specified risk material, so we are not going to imply a hazard the regulation does not describe. The honest concern is narrower: the source country, the age of the cattle and the processing are all unstated.

The upper limit for adults is 20 mg of elemental boron a day. Reaching it from this product is not realistic: position eight caps the chelate at 150 mg, which at a typical 5% grade is about 7.5 mg of boron.

Per the label: anyone under 18, and pregnant or nursing mothers and anyone with a known medical condition should consult a physician first. Add anyone vegetarian, vegan, or keeping halal or kosher, because of the gelatin capsule and the bovine tissue.

Sodapeakwellness, the authorized merchant that sells the product. We benefit if you buy, which is a conflict of interest and is stated here rather than buried.

Because they are on the label, and a buyer holding the bottle will find them. A site that repeated the marketing’s list of six would be less useful than the back of the bottle.

We publish the seller’s review figures as the seller’s, with an audit of the sample text supplied. No review or rating schema is emitted on any page of this site.

Email the website inbox with the page and the sentence. Corrections are made on the page with the date.