Al-Marsad Newspaper: Dr. Abdullah Al-Fakhri, a consultant and head of the Department of Kidney and Urology Diseases and Tumors, revealed, during an interview with the “Yahla” program, the harms of using the “Tunkat Ali” product, which works to raise the male hormone, stressing that “it has a negative effect on genes and harms with DNA.”
Al-Fakhri said, the stimulant of “Tonkat Ali” has found many echoes during the recent period, and it is a herb called “plong jack”, and this herb is found in some Asian countries such as Malaysia and Indonesia, and it has been used for a long time in folk medicine, to treat malaria in reducing the temperature, Then they began to use it to raise the male hormone and stimulate reproduction.
He continued, many studies on the product “Tunkat Ali” found that this herb raises the free male hormone and increases it, which increases physical activity in general, and some people use it for exercises and increase muscle mass.
And he added, “But most of the studies that were conducted in Asian countries looked for the effect of using “tonkat Ali” on raising the male hormone for a period of three to nine months, and the studies had a short period in which the age was not specified, and the dose was different between studies, and they did not work on a topic. Safety .
He added, and there is a study conducted by the European Food and Drug Authority on animals, and found that the effect of the herb “Tonicat Ali” reaches genes and affects the “DNA”, and works to combine and damage the “DNA”, in some animals using some doses.
He pointed out that the European Food Authority did not allow the use of this herb, and also the American Food and Drug Authority issued a warning for its current use, as it does not have a safety rating to allow its use for all people.
And he went on to say, if a person uses it in a large way, this may affect the DNA of this person, and some studies have shown that it may cause tumors if the person continues to use it, so its use is not safe, as its effectiveness has been studied, but the degree of safety has not been studied for it, so It’s hard for us to spend it.
