What is Tribulus?
Tribulus Terrestris is an herb grown in various parts of the world and used medicinally for it’s virilizing effects. The leaflets are less than a quarter-inch long. The whole plant is a taprooted annual about three to thirty inches across. The quarter-inch-wide flowers of clear lemon yellow are pretty to see on the flat little patches of puncture vine. A week later, the flowers are followed by very hard sharp “seeds” (actually, each one is a single-seeded wedge of the intact fruit). “Tribulus” is Latin for “trouble.” The spiny propagules of Tribulus are less than a quarter-inch point-to-point. Studies have shown a better than 50% increase in testosterone levels when taking the Tribulus Terrestris herb. Its pathway for increasing testosterone differs from both Androstenedione 100 and DHEA. Tribulus exerts its testosterone elevating effect through the increase in luteinizing hormone (LH). LH is responsible for “telling” your body to produce testosterone. One interesting fact: Steroids su
