[surferjoe2007]

"By pure coincidence that is the right amount of vitex though." -- I'm not sure why you say this. Are you saying you think I just picked random doses of herbs?

Not exactly random, but I meant 1 capsule happens to be the right amount of vitex. I'm glad you're trying at least 2,000 mg L-arginine (I assume you mean arginine not glutamine?). You can get powder and spread it out into 4 doses throughout the day if you want more. Though food is still simpler I think. The healthy meats are seafood and especially shellfish. Some healthy nuts include pumpkin seeds, almonds, sunflower seeds, tahini and hummus (which contains tahini). Get them sprouted, sprout them yourself, take Beano or at worst get them roasted since they are hard to digest raw. Plus with healthy food you get a wider variety of aminos and lots of other nice nutrients. Abi already touched on the importance of the other 18 helpful aminos, and then there are hundreds of other important nutrients on top of that. Healthy food is always best.

One other question, Surferjoe: on your program page, you recommend 900-1200mg fenugreek or shatavari (or 300-1200mg if it's 50% saponin), so which dosage are you recommending? Or does just depends on the potency? Mine is actually 50% for shatavari and the fenugreek doesn't say so maybe I'll mix them...you think 50/50 fenugreek/shatavari would be effective or is 100% of one better? Don¡'t want to smell like maple syrup

It does depend on the potency. Both those dosages are for 50% saponin. The overall range is actually 600-2,400 mg extract as I later found out. You can stick to shatavari only or shatavari plus only 300 mg fenugreek extract / 3,000 mg whole fenugreek if you want to avoid the maple smell. Mixing isn't any better or worse than picking one. Glad you got a good extract for the shatavari, that should be fine then. Note that since the fenugreek isn't an extract it is much weaker so it won't have much effect compared to the shatavari. So 600-2,400 mg 50% saponin shatavari extract is fine, plus if you want to add a little fenugreek on top of that it won't change much nor add any maple smell at this low amount.