I've been looking over the japanese NBE blogs, of which there are a ton:
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl...om/bustup/
So far it seems that every last one of these women (and I do mean every single program that I've personally seen) involves PM and pig placenta. They seem to think that this combo is absolutely essential. Other things vary, but never those two core supplements.
What's also interesting is that horse placenta seems to be much more popular in Japan than pig placenta (based on what I've seen on Rakuten), and yet none of these women are using horse placenta for NBE. They all seem to prefer pig placenta, especially a supplement called Whitex.
Typically they also take a mixed herbal supplement in luteal phase that contains a small amount of PM. Technically that means that they take oral PM all cycle, but in a much lower dose during luteal phase. By far the most popular supplement for this purpose is "Glamour". Glamour contains PM, black cohosh, chasteberry, white pepper, turmeric, dandelion, basil, and something called "tree yam". The second most popular luteal supplement is Bust-up drops, but it still doesn't come anywhere near Glamour in terms of popularity.
It's worth pointing out that every blogger that I've seen so far, except one, is using Ladies 99% Pueraria as their follicular PM supplement. That's all the more amazing considering how expensive it is. The one woman I've seen that isn't using "Ladies" is using "Mature" brand PM instead. Both brands appear to be extracts and claim to be "99%", although I'm not sure what that means. 99% what? 99% pure? Ladies Pueraria has around 800 ratings on Rakuten and an average of 4 out of 5 stars, which is really stunning, especially considering that most of the other PM brands don't even have any reviews at all. Unfortunately Ladies PM is EXTREMELY expensive so I decided to use Suplife 99 PM which also seems to be an extract and claims to be 99% something-or-other
Almost every one of these girls was also using a collagen supplement called "Puruoi", but I'm not sure collagen supps are really all that necessary when you eat as much animal protein as I do. I eat tons of meat, eggs, etc. even when I'm not actively trying to, so I don't think I'll be buying Puruoi any time soon.
Overall, I think the degree of similarity between all their programs is absolutely incredible, and what's even more incredible is the success rate of their programs. I don't think that the success rate of the programs on this board comes anywhere close to theirs, as much as I wish that weren't true. Even if you limit the scope to just PM programs, these girls are mercilessly beating our collective butt, assuming all their success stories are true. I think you can see what I've decided to imitate their programs next cycle after taking my hormone test. The only reason I would change their basic program is if the test says that I have excess estrogen or testosterone. I seriously doubt that I have excess estrogen, but I guess it's possible. If I have excess testosterone I'll probably just add some mint tea to the program. If I have excess estrogen, I'm pretty much screwed. The obvious choice in that case would be to use progesterone, but PC hasn't done much for me thus far except give me symptoms of toxicity, so I have no idea what I'll do if that's the case.
Here's the program I intend on following unless my hormone test results tell me otherwise:
Days 5-15:
Suplife 99 PM- dose on bottle
Days 16-28:
Glamour- 2 tabs/day
All cycle-
Maruman pig placenta- 3 tabs/day
I'm really hanging my hopes on this after a year of no results on other programs, so I really hope those girls weren't lying or exaggerating, and it works well for me