Viasil Reviews: The natural performance enhancer for you?
Viasil offers a set of individually effective ingredients in relatively low-impact doses. Find out if it’s strong enough to make a difference.
Nearly a third of men experience erectile dysfunction at some point.¹ It can feel embarrassing in the heat of the moment, but there’s nothing to be ashamed of. And if you’re a man over 70 or take SSRIs for depression, the odds are even higher that you’ll develop symptoms like low libido or difficulty maintaining an erection. The good news is that there’s plenty of help out there. And many of those potential remedies don’t require a prescription, like Viasil, a nutritional supplement geared toward helping men address their sexual dysfunction.
Viasil tablets might be worth trying if you’re looking for a non-prescription way to address sexual performance issues without taking ED medications like Viagra. The product uses relatively potent extracts of ingredients that have performed well in a handful of small-scale research studies. The 100-day money-back guarantee gives you enough time to see if the product will work without risking too much money. However, you might want to pass on the scientifically unproven Instant Erection Gel.
Why you should trust us
For this review of Viasil, our team pored over more than 200 scientific research studies looking into male sexual dysfunction and the various interventions — both prescription and non-prescription — available to men. We then distilled those hundreds of hours of research into this review.
Additionally, like all health-related content on this website, this review was thoroughly vetted by one or more members of our Medical Review Board for accuracy. We’ll keep an eye on Viasil and the broader men’s health landscape as time goes on in order to keep this review and the rest of our critical men’s wellness information current.
How we evaluated Viasil
Viasil falls into a class of men’s sexual wellness supplements that we have extensive experience researching and reviewing for our readers. When we set out to apply our expertise to a given supplement in this particular niche, we take a few central criteria into account: effectiveness, safety, cost, and privacy. There are certainly other considerations besides these, but we consider these parameters to be the most important for the average man considering Viasil or one of its competitors.
Effectiveness is the biggest factor in our overall rating. It’s not that the other criteria don’t matter, but if a supplement doesn’t work, you’re not going to take it. Other issues cease to be important once you’ve moved on to a different product. In a close second behind effectiveness is safety. This is especially true in the men’s sexual wellness space, as no man wants to put his genitalia on the line, especially if the odds of success are low.
We also look into cost and privacy, specifically comparing Viasil’s price structure and privacy policies with those of its competitors. Given its specific combination of ingredients, Viasil has the potential to help some men who are looking for a non-prescription way to ameliorate certain problems in the bedroom, but it doesn’t offer the best value for its class.
Its price point is on par with products like Semenax or Male Extra, but most of its ingredients appear in smaller doses. For example, Viasil relies primarily on a 700mg combination of pomegranate and sweet orange extracts, whereas Male extra delivers a 500mg dose of pomegranate extract in addition to large quantities of other ingredients, like zinc and L-arginine, for the same price.
Central to Viasil’s formula is a combination of pomegranate and sweet orange extracts made by the BioActor pharmaceutical company and going by the brand name Actiful. The combination was developed with older patients in mind as a potential source of increased energy.
A white paper on the product points to a handful of studies linking its ingredients with improved physical performance in active, trained subjects, as well as improved blood flow in overweight subjects.² The latter effect may be attributed to a particular citrus polyphenol that can stimulate the production of nitric oxide, at least according to a 2011 study.³
this study looked at a 500mg daily dose of the concentrated polyphenol derived from sweet orange, while the entire dose of Actiful in Viasil is 700mg and contains far more than just that one polyphenol. This isn’t to say it wouldn’t be effective at this dosage, but we would require studies conducted at the doses provided — and ideally in combination with Viasil’s other ingredients — to draw firmer conclusions.
Viasil’s other ingredients appear mostly as reasonably potent extracts that bring what look like small amounts closer to what the product’s competitors provide. But those doses are still on the low side. Compare Viasil’s 400mg (20mg of a 20:1 extract) to Performer 8’s 6,000mg of ginseng, and the difference is clear.
The weakest dose, is the ingredient with the most promising research behind it, Viasil only provides you with 1.5mg of zinc picolinate. Other companies deliver 30-50mg of zinc (Male Extra: 45mg; Max Performer: 24mg) as part of ingredient lists that are more comprehensive.
Viasil’s safety profile isn’t bad, primarily because it doesn’t use particularly high doses of any one ingredient. The company banks on the combination of ingredients working to provide results without clearly identifiable safety risks. But that doesn’t mean those risks aren’t there. In fact, just as a lack of research into Viasil’s specific combination of ingredients makes it difficult to ascertain its ultimate effectiveness, that research deficit obscures any potential claims of safety.
When we look at the individual components, we see ingredients that are mostly safe for most people. Studies looking into each have occasionally found recurrent adverse effects or a threat of contraindication with particular medications. For example, research into icariin.
the beneficial component in horny goat weed extract — reveals a high potential for interactions with various drugs with as-yet-unknown consequences.⁴ And considering the compound’s ability to act like a PDE-5 inhibitor,⁵ there may be additional dangers to those with blood pressure issues.⁶
Less severe side effects are also not uncommon, including digestive discomfort, breathing problems, headache, and heart palpitations. These effects are not unique to Viasil; most male enhancement products have relatively similar safety profiles, offset only by moderate ingredient variety and dosage differences.
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