Deer Antler Velvet Handbook

Deer antler velvet (DAV) is a fast growing soft-bone on bucks, stags and bulls that is covered in velvety hair-like fuzz. Many cultures use deer antler velvet because it contains anti-aging nutrients and vitalizing constituents that support recovery, regeneration, and growth of tissues in the body, such as joints and muscles.

Deer antler velvet is widely used a food supplement that vitalizes, tonifies, and strengthens the body and has been used for over 2000 years for it's many benefits and healthful properties.

Velvet Antler for Short

Deer antler velvet has the short name 'velvet antler' which refers to the velvet-hair covering the skin of the young antler.

Velvet antler is not hardened and secrets proteins, peptides, and growth factors that grow and develop all parts of the soft vascularized (blood filled) young antler at high speeds.

Power of Growth and Regeneration

Deer antler velvet is a unique mammalian organ that fully regenerates after shedding every year and is known for growing at the highest recorded rate for any mammal.

Deer antler velvet grows on the heads of bucks, stags and bulls in the spring and early summer as peptides and hormones are secreted for growth of very-fast size increases at a rate of up to 1cm per day.

Velvet antler sticks are not bone and are a unique tissue that is high in digestible proteins, which are predominantly collagens, and also includes essential waxy lipid, and bio-available mineral and trace mineral containing tissue.

Worldwide Popularity

Deer antler velvet is a highly popular supplemental food that is farmed, ranched, harvested and used across the world.

Over 2,000,000 high-quality pounds are produced every year from world-wide velvet antler farms.

Deer Antler Velvet is Used Most in Asia

In New Zealand, the deer industry business is booming with more than 65 million dollars of export revenue in 2018 for velvet antler with about 98% accommodating the discerning North Asian markets.

Classification: Tonic
Category: Adaptogen
Grade: Dietary Supplement
Tastes: Sweet, Salty, Meaty
Used By: Male, Female, Youth to Elderly
Usage: Soup, Tea, Powder, Capsule, Tincture
Benefits: Nourishing; Invigorating; Rejuvenating; Immunity; Growth, Regeneration, Repair; Sexuality; Athletic Performance

There are different types of deer antler velvet which have different studied benefits related to their different constituent compositions.

Native to Asia, including Japan, and raised on traditional family farms in rural China.

Sika have the smallest velvet antlers that are usually less than 1 kilogram.

Siberian and North American Caribou Reindeer which are wild harvested and game managed.

Reindeer velvet antler is medium sized, weighing 1-3 kilograms, that are medium-high potency.

Native to Europe and commercially ranch-harvested in New Zealand.

Red deer velvet antler is medium sized and weigh 2-3 kilograms.

American and Canadian Wapiti Elk are raised by an association of independent ranchers

Elk must be ranch raised and processed correctly to avoid chronic wasting disease that may be found in North America sourced elk.

Elk have very large velvet antler sticks that weigh 4 kilograms.

Right Timing, No Waste

All parts of the antler velvet stick are harvested in summer when the highest active constituent concentrations are measurable. This is done before the antlers harden and calcify in the fall.

Cleaned for Safety

The removed velvet sticks are hygienically processed to perverse the unique concentration of nutrition. The processing of velvet antler is either done by washing and flash pasteurization or it involves repeated boiling and drying of the velvet sticks which will reduce their weight by up to 50% or more.

Graded for Quality Control

Finally, velvet antlers are graded and sold according to industry guidelines and standards.

Antler velvet grows thickest with higher active constituents in adult males.

Although all parts of the velvet antler contain unique nutrition, the most active constituents are found towards the ends of the deer antler velvet sticks and external tissues layers.

Tippy Top Wax

The tips and tops are the wax piece due to a larger volume of gel-like lipids and peptides, such as immunopeptides such as cytokines, and growth factors such as IGF-1, IGF-2, all of which form the basis for antler proliferation.

Blood Middles

The middles of the stick is the blood piece that is unique rapidly growing cartilage that is richly vascularized and includes various proteins such as collagens, a group of chondroitin sulfates called proteoglycans, glucosamines, and mineral enzyme co-factors.

Bone Bottoms

The bone piece is both the bottom and base sections which have not ossified and is the section highest in calcium and other essential minerals.

All Sections = Holistic Supplement

Different parts of the velvet antler contain different nutrition; and all parts work synergistically together, depending on how they are formulated, to create a holistic supplement.

Nutrient Composition

Constituents: Major minerals such as calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, sulphur, potassium, sodium, iron; trace minerals such as manganese, zinc, copper, selenium, cobalt; gelatin collagen proteins; complete range of amino acids; cholesterol; several growth factors; glucosamine; chondroitin; hyaluronic acid; polysaccharides; steroid hormones; fatty acid lipids such as prostaglandins; and waxy lipids such as ceramides.

Structure/Function

Body Parts: Joints, Bones, Muscles, Hair, Nails, Bone Marrow
Organs: Skin, Heart, Kidney, Genitals
Glands: Parathyroid, Thyroid, Hypothalamus, Pituitary, Adrenal, Sex
Systems: Sympathetic, Parasympathetic, Cardiovascular, Immune, Lymph

The serving size of deer antler velvet depends on the extract, soup, spirits, powder, or liquid.

The type of deer antler velvet has different potencies which requires a different dose.

If you don't know the type of deer antler velvet you have, follow the red deer dosage suggestions since it is the most common type on the market.

The dose of deer antler velvet is always started with the minimum recommended and increased over time until a functional dose is reached.

1. Tea and Soup Dosage

Broth is freshly prepared: cooked on the stove-top, sliced deer antler velvet is added to simmering water and slowly cooked at a low temperate, approx. 125*F - 165*F, for 1-3 hours.

Tea and Soup Dosage: 3 – 9 grams in 1 liter purified or distilled water; reduced in volume by half. Drink two to three 200ml - 300ml servings daily. If you don't know the type of deer antler velvet you have, follow the red deer dosage suggestions since it is the most common type on the market.

Comment: This form of supplementation is mainly for collagen, amino acids and minerals, consumed as a nutritional source of high-quality food daily.

2. Spirits Dosage

A few slices are added to bottle of spirits (40 proof alcohol) and placed in a cool dark place. It is then shaken several times a week for over a month before drinking.

Spirits Dosage: 18 - 36 grams per liter, soaked for at least one month. Take 1 ounce 1-3 times a day as a shot serving. If you don't know the type of deer antler velvet you have, follow the red deer dosage suggestions since it is the most common type on the market.

Comment: Crude alcohol extraction of a portion of constituents, unique lipids and active minerals. Taken seasonally for warmth and circulation.

3. Powder and Capsule Dosage

Fresh powder or encapsulated: either directly in the mouth or in a small 2-4 oz cup of lukewarm water, gently whisked for a few brief moments. Powder and capsules are the best way to give deer antler velvet to pets and animals, such as hamsters, cats, dogs, and horses.

Powder and Capsule Dosage for Humans: 1,000 – 9,000 milligrams divided into 1-3 daily servings. If you don't know the type of deer antler velvet you have, follow the red deer dosage suggestions since it is the most common type on the market.

Comment: Increased absorption and no-heat processing will allow for consumption over the long term for general benefits.

Powder and Capsule Dosage for Pets and Animals: 100 - 250 milligrams per 10 pounds of bodyweight divided into 1-2 daily servings. If you don't know the type of deer antler velvet you have, follow the red deer dosage suggestions since it is the most common type on the market.

4. Liquid Extract and Tincture Dosage

Liquid extracts may be taken sublingually for maximum absorption or added to a small amount of cool water and slowly sipped so that the extract is easier to take. Hydro-alcohol tinctures of deer antler velvet are superior due to the potency of the alcohol extract.

Liquid Extract and Tincture Dosage: 500 – 5,000 milligrams in 1-3 servings 1-3 times daily. If you don't know the type of deer antler velvet you have, follow the red deer dosage suggestions since it is the most common type on the market.

Comment: for liquids extracts maximum benefits and more immediate effects staring within one to two weeks. A multi-step liquid extraction retains and preserves maximum potency of all constituents.

Best times and ways to take deer antler velvet:

• Take with complete balanced meals for best overall results
• Time your dosage 30 mins before fitness and training for performance
• Take at the beginning of the day, such as breakfast, for lasting energy
• With a complete dinner full of protein to promote recovery and regeneration

Deer antler velvet is a supplement used as a tonic and an adaptogen by many different people for different reasons to support health, wellness, and fitness performance.

Everyone Can Take Deer Antler Velvet: Young to Old, Women, and Men

Like numerous animal foods, deer antler velvet contains naturally occurring polypeptides such as growth factors that naturally support healthy hormone balance in women and hormone function in men, including testosterone in those with male sex organs.

Deer Antler Velvet Has These Key Benefits:

• Maintain stable long-lasting energy levels
• Promote joint flexibility and muscular strength
• Relief of minor aches and discomfort in joints and muscles
• Support tissue repair and regeneration of skin, muscle and bone
• Promote physical recovery and injury repair
• Promote vascular performance and heart circulation
• Support healthy weight loss
• Support physique enhancement goals
• Support daily stress-resistance
• Build immune function
• Promote healthy endocrine function
• Adrenal hormones
• Testosterone production in males
• Balanced hormone production in women
• Promote healthy sexuality and male and female sexual interest/intimacy

For the Chinese, velvet antler is known as 'lu rong' and considered a tonic in Chinese herbalism that promotes wellness.

The Chinese use deer antler velvet for medicine in supporting healthy kidney yang jing and yin jing, to strengthen the heart yang, to support joint health, and to promote sexual function in women and men.

The Koreans, Japanese, and Indigenous cultures around-the-world use deer antler as a restorative for children to promote healthy growth of bones, to rejuvenate the body, and as a general blood, sex, and anti-aging tonic.

The Russians use deer antler velvet for numerous adaptive benefits as an adaptogen.

The scientifically tested alcohol based velvet antler tincture extract, called pantocrine, is an adaptogenic tonic to boost circulation, sexual function, decrease muscle fatigue and increase work capacity.

The alcohol extract, nicknamed 'panty,' may also be used to generate warmth in the cold winter months as a general tonic for virility, regeneration, recovery and growth.

Americans and Europeans have begun to import deer antler velvet from New Zealand and China as a quality peptide and amino acid supplement for joints, glandular hormonal support, and fitness performance.

A single extensive study by scientists actually concludes that deer antler velvet, from the sika deer, improves fatigue effects by several factors including skeletal muscle contraction and mass from particular protein expressions.

The continuous consumption of the nutrients and constituents in deer antler velvet, as part of a well-balanced complete meals and supplementation program, are used to support, promote, and maintain many different aspects of health and wellness.

1. Joint Health, Repair and Discomfort

Deer antler velvet constituents, such as glucosamine, chondroitin, and manganese, support joint integrity and repair while reducing joint discomfort.

2. Cardiovascular Circulation

In deer antler velvet, trace and electrolyte minerals benefit heart contraction and vascular integrity. Amino acids also support normal blood pressure. And the lipids preserved in the alcohol liquid extract of deer antler velvet support circulation.

3. Hormones

In deer antler velvet, combined nutrients, such as selenium, zinc, growth factors, cholesterol, fatty acids and so on, benefit hormone production for the promotion of adrenal, growth and regeneration hormones. Sex hormones are also supported, including testosterone in males, and estrogen and progesterone balancing in females.

4. Sexual Function

Deer antler velvet promotes strength and stamina of genitals in both sexes due to electrolytes and lipids preserved in the alcohol extract; better pelvic circulation in women and erection blood-flow in men being the result.

5. Rapid Regeneration and Injury Repair

In deer antler velvet, hyaluronic acid and growth factors, promote injury recovery, bodily tissues repair, and normal bodily growth support.

6. Muscle Strength and Repair

In deer antler velvet, electrolyte minerals support muscle contraction and relaxation for posture, strength, and stamina. The alcohol liquid extract of deer antler velvet is recommended for reduced muscle discomfort and increased muscle repair.

7. Bone Health and Repair

Supplementation with deer antler velvet increases bone activity, bone mineralization, and bone density from the uptake of absorbable and bio-active nutrient minerals that the bones use for health, such as calcium, magnesium, and phosphorus.

8. Immune Function

Deer antler velvet contains amino acids that supply material for immune cells and polysaccharides that strengthen the immune system by increasing circulation into more difficult to reach bone marrow tissues. In addition, deer antler velvet strengthens the adrenals and assist stress-resistance in supporting the immune system.

9. Skin, Hair and Nail Health

Deer antler velvet gives noticeable benefit to skin, hair, and nails from continuous consumption, due to hyaluronic acid, amino acids, and zinc for nails.

10. Red Blood Cells

Deer antler velvet will promote circulation into bone marrow tissues for increased production of red blood cells and greater oxygenation of the body. This will support energy levels and performance.

Continue onward to learn how deer antler velvet specifically works by referencing the previous sources and bio-nutritional science.

Dosing with deer antler antler is invigorating to the cardiovascular system; generating warmth and supporting fatigue resistance through better oxygenation. The proteins in deer antler velvet are responsible for supporting vascular tissue regeneration and growth.

Alcohol extraction preserves unique lipids that support the circulatory system. These lipids work much in the same way as essential fatty acids do for circulation.

Additionally, the natural concentration of easily absorbable minerals are superb for holistically maintaining the circulation of blood through the heart and vascular tissue.

It is because of the various constituents that deer antler velvet encourages strength and stamina concerning athletic performance. Even bare-minimum short-term dosages of crude powder supplementation show strength and endurance benefits.

Deer antler velvet assists muscle contraction and nerve impulses while supporting the protection, production and regeneration of nerve fibers; including neuron production in the brain.

Active Minerals for Activity

The major essential mineral calcium strengthens muscle and heart contractions. And another important mineral, magnesium, supports the relaxation of heart and muscles between contractions for on-the-go recovery.

Longer-lasting Energy for Working and Workouts

The holistic nutrition works together and as a result of the circulation being supported, oxygenated blood flows into cellular tissue for long-lasting energy and more productive work and efficient workouts.

Deer antler velvet is a adrenal and immune tonic that supports the body to become physically resilient, so we get better at getting things done.

Taking deer antler velvet daily strengthens the whole body, including the adrenal gland while supporting immune system function for more effective immune response to toxins and byproducts of fatigue.

Deer antler velvet is an adaptogen that assist the immune system in adapting and changing to stress and activity levels.

The adrenals need to maintain nourishment so that they can adapt the body's energy levels so that it will last longer at doing what it needs to get done.

No matter who you are, strenuous activity will not fatigue you as much with the adrenal and adaptogen benefits of deer antler velvet

Deer antler velvet contains a combination of nutrients to support joint, skin, nail, hair, and bone.

Feed and Strengthen the Bones

Since deer antler velvet is active bone, taking it has been studied to promote bone strength, bone cell proliferation, bone tissue activity, bone density, and bone mineralization.

Good for Joint Discomfort

Some people taking deer antler velvet report less joint discomfort, and even though it improves quality of life and well-being, it doesn't work as good as a drug for pain relief.

Deer antler velvet is high in easily digestible bio-active collagen peptides that are good for hard bodily tissues, like nails, tendons, ligaments, and the cushioning between joints.

All of the these constituents work together to support healthy joint function and ensures better muscular range of motion, for better flexible strength.

Many of the benefits of deer antler velvet combine to improve the body’s recuperation time and support anti-aging, while also improving the body's power to heal injuries and bones.

Deer antler velvet can support wound healing when applied topically to the skin by adding the liquid extract to lotion.

Primarily, the naturally occurring polypeptides, like IGF-1 and cytokines, maintain a state of regeneration and support the growth of healthy cells while also preserving bone mass and density.

The growth factors and cytokines found in deer antler work by signaling the endocrine and immune system to better communicate with other cells and assist wound healing and injury recovery.

Part of Any Healing Program

We do not heal all in one day, but deer antler velvet will augment the supplement program so that healing works significantly better and more reliably for daily soft tissue regeneration.

The Chinese have long used deer antler velvet to support healthy intimacy and genital health; it does so by promoting the functioning of bodily systems associated with sexuality.

Intimacy benefits are best achieved the alcohol liquid extract, as the powder capsule form is nutritional in nature and is not shown to benefit intimacy in males nor females like the alcohol extract.

Q: Can women take deer antler velvet safely?

A: Women can take deer antler velvet safely since it doesn't increase testosterone or any hormones out of the normal. Deer antler velvet supports a balanced and healthy endocrine system for healthy female glands. Women can get all the benefits that men can get, except testosterone, since women don't have male parts to make testosterone.

Q: What if a woman works out, does sports, and does a weight-loss program, will deer antler velvet make her manly?

A: No, deer antler velvet will not make a women manly. Women can use deer antler velvet to do physical exercise and help them to lose weight, as part of a weight loss program. They will not produce huge muscle and they will not grow facial hair from deer antler velvet. In fact, it will promote healthy skin, hair growth, and strong nails, as well as supporting weight loss and firmness of the body.

Deer antler velvet is a great supplement for pets and animals, such as dogs, cats, horses, and so on. Because dogs and cats (animals with vertebrae) are much like humans in how their bodies work and their genetic make-up, pets will experience many of the same benefits:

Deer antler velvet capsules are easy to add to pet food by breaking open the capsule and mixing into their daily food. If they are fed two to three times a day, you may divide their overall dose into each mealtime or you may give them the full dose in their largest meal once a day.

The specific dosage of deer antler velvet for pets is calculated by milligrams per pounds and the type of deer antler velvet.

(Go To Pet DAV Dosages Chart)⇧

A quick buying guide is found below:

Deer antler velvet will support testosterone in those with male sex organs from it's effects on the prostate and the Leydig cells in the testicles by increased expression of protein enzymes responsible for testosterone production. The Russians figured out the alcohol extract is best for sexual function.

Deer antler velvet healthfully supports the endocrine system and all hormones by supplying a plethora of hormonal nutrition in the form of growth factors like IGF-1 and essential lipids that the glands use for raw materials.

Because deer antler velvet is a dietary supplement, this means anyone can use and take deer antler velvet, so you don't need to be a athlete or weight trainer or a bodybuilder to have the unique nutrition support your body.

Are you wondering what's up with all the different deer antler velvet supplements?

We'll show you what's legit and that deer antler velvet is safe.

Take a journey through snake oil marketing, straight up scams, and 

Don't Get Scammed!

With a look around the internet or the supplement store you'll think it strange how you can find deer antler velvet for 20 bucks and another for 150 bucks, most are diluted and overhyped liquids often sold as sprays.

Get Started By Buying the Best

If shoppers only knew that deer antler velvet is a nutritional dietary supplement they would buy three bottles of the best for $99.97 $75.99 and take it consistently to reap the results.

Q: Which deer antler velvet is going to give you the most bang for your buck?

A: The one with the most quality deer antler velvet in it will give you the most bang for the buck. When you take enough deer antler velvet that's when you will get it to work.

Look Out!

Most mass-market products have 1,000 to 3,000mgs in the whole bottle - that's like a daily dose of red deer liquid extract!

Not Enough Doesn't Work

As this study shows, a daily dose of 560mgs deer antler velvet doesn't work so one won't achieve the benefits of deer antler velvet.

More Is Definitely Better

This study shows that one may require at least a minimum of 1290mgs to feel a difference in joint discomfort.

Buy Enough and Take Enough to Make It Work

You should know that you shouldn't pay a lot for deer antler velvet, because it is not rare and mystical. Deer antler velvet is common since deer antler velvet is a food supplement that is developed into an industry in New Zealand and other countries and cultures throughout the world, like China, Korea, Japan, and Russia.

The Best Choices are Powder Capsules and Liquid Extracts

Deer Antler Velvet Powder Capsules: easy to take version of deer antler velvet that works mainly for nutritional support of collagen and bio-available minerals as a tonic superfood. Best quality capsules are fresh processed and packed from quality velvet antler.

Deer Antler Velvet Liquid Extract: highly absorbable cold-processed extractions that preserve collagens, growth factors, peptides, and circulation promoting lipids, the alcohol containing extract being the most studied.

Short answer: No, but kinda yes...

Long Answer:

Deer Antler Velvet is Technically Not Snake Oil

It is really amazing at how good it works at promoting physical vitality and strength of the muscles and joints, among of bunch of other benefits.

BUT,

Unlike what the 'fake news' and not-so-random internet searches may make you think, supplements like deer antler velvet are not drugs used to treat and manage diseases and conditions.

AND,

Some supplement companies make less-than-satisfactory deer antler velvet products with diluted thin extractions that can be sprayed from a nozzle, just like old-fashioned snake oil!

Question:

Then why do you sell deer antler velvet if not to treat your disease?

Answer:

For supporting, maintaining, and promoting health, wellness, and fitness performance.

Contrary to the large and completely uninformed websites, the clueless journalists, some hokey doctors, and sinister snake oil salesman, dietary supplements are highly regulated.

How are Supplements Regulated?

According to the FDA supplements are defined as food and don't treat, prevent, cure or mitigate disease, therefore making deer antler velvet a dietary food supplement.

Not Steroids...

Deer antler velvet is not a steroid drug, although it does work to promote healthy hormone metabolism for growth and regeneration.

Here is the lowdown, there are two main points:

(1). Buy a deer antler velvet supplement with enough deer antler velvet in it.

In other words, avoid aloe vera, skip on wild yams, and toss the tribulus and tongkat ali. If you want this other stuff then take it separately, because a little bit of that stuff doesn't work much either.

(2). Definitely avoid dumping your money into diluted bottles of confusing marketing.

Are you a supplement manufacturer? Probably not, so why does this matter to you as the consumer when they make you go through the mathematical calculation and conversions like it is your job of interpreting it all like you are going to be making deer antler velvet? Focus on how much deer antler velvet is listed in the supplement.

You gotta take enough to make deer antler velvet work.

When looking at some products, they barely contain deer antler velvet and are focusing solely on growth factors as the only active constituent.

Really?

That's all? Nothing more? So, supposedly it's all about the growth factors? Nope! It isn't just growth factors; deer antler velvet is so much more than just a singular constituent.

Knowing what deer antler velvet is will greatly help one understand.

Simply put, deer antler velvet is a holistic tonic with lots of unique nutrition and constituents with plenty of supporting benefits that work together to build health, strength, and vitality.

Off we go to the deer antler sprays that generally range from 10 bucks to 50 bucks and maybe more!

Supposedly spritzing sprays of deer antler velvet containing growth factors, peptides, lipids, and minerals into the mouth is more effective than simply taking it?

Wait what was that?

The major consideration here is: how dilute is the extract if one can just spray it in the mouth. Overall this is 'fakey' supplement marketing aimed at making you possibly feel cool.

Keep This In Mind and Mouth = Take Enough Deer Antler Velvet

Two simple ways (actually 3):

(1). Hold the extract in your mouth for a minute or two.

(2). Dilute deer antler velvet extract in a little bit of water and slowly sip on it.

(3). Put it in a juice or shake.

Hydro-alcohol Extract for Full Potency

Another weird thing to ask about sprays is: why do these deer antler velvet sprays have no alcohol? Did they miss something? Such as using Russian researched alcohol extraction methods. The alcohol extract is what is used for a pre-workout.

Also,

Why do they make these sprays all clumped together with things you should avoid like citric acid and potassium sorbate, flavorings or something random like aloe vera, wild yam, or tribulus? If you want that stuff take it separately to control your dose of deer antler velvet.

Amount of extract per bottle: 1,000 milligrams to 2,500 milligrams average in the entire bottle of many branded deer antler velvet sprays.

Someone would have to drink the whole bottle to get one daily dose equivalent of Tonic Tinctures Deer Antler Velvet!

Whoa, that can get pretty expensive very quickly as some bottles can run $100's of dollars for a little bit of deer antler velvet in the whole bottle, let alone one dose.

How you avoid preservatives: is your extract Hydro-alcoholic?

Traditionally, in the time-honored industry of tincture extraction and making deer antler velvet across the world, the solvent to make deer antler velvet into a supplement should be hydro-alcoholic for full potency.

Why hydro-alcohol?

(1). Natural preservative

(2). Alcohol is required to extract many of the beneficial constituents and water is able to extract everything that is soluble in water.

(3). Alcohol and water extracts are 99% absorbable.

But this other brand has 25,000 nanograms, another has 1,000,000 nanograms of IGF-1. Big deal! Right?

A nanogram is pretty small. What's the difference between a little bit and a little bit? Hmmm...

Growth factors work by their presence in the diet which is one reason why milk and beef build strong bodies, raw milk, raw eggs and rare cooked beef have growth factors also.

There is not much difference in taking varying amounts of micro-nanogram doses of IGF-1 orally IF there is not much deer antler velvet in the bottle.

Like any tonic, the key to deer antler velvet supplementation is to be consistent in taking it, the more often you take it, along with food and other supplements, the more deer antler velvet will work for you.

The IGF-1, and other growth factors and constituents all-together are part of safe and healthy endocrine response for healthy hormones. It's not magic, because it takes a lot of the concurrent nutrition in the form of protein and other recovery nutrition to make deer antler velvet work.

Tonic Tinctures Deer Antler Velvet is a 1:2 extraction ratio which means {1 ounce (~28,500mgs) of deer antler velvet} is extracted into a {2 ounce bottle}. This is the lower alcohol gooey thick extraction full of all the nutrients and constituents found in deer antler velvet.

Each dropper is ~500mgs of deer antler velvet.

The Lowdown: We process in-house and are able to pull a concentrated hydro-alcoholic extraction, without heat, a total of four times on the slices before they are exhausted and completely utilized yielding a think liquid extract that is 35% alcohol by volume.

The market is full of these multi-ingredient deer antler spray formulations under several different labels, one being used by a large corporate supplement retailer.

Spritz! Spritz!

They list deer antler velvet on their label, but do so with nearly a dozen other ingredients including Aloe Vera, Niacin, Artificial Flavors, Glycerin and a couple preservatives added for good measure. The label will state 300mgs or 1000mgs per serving, but of what ingredients?

Not Based On Deer Antler Velvet Serving Science

These manufacturers make no claim as to potency for dosage clarifications to make sure you are getting enough deer antler velvet. They may use IGF-1, marker of potency, but deer antler velvet potency is more than just growth factors, since there is more than just growth factors in deer antler velvet.

Brand X claims to use an extraction that is 43:1 or 70:1 or 80:1. This means 43 kilogram to make 1 kilogram powder; 70 kilograms to make 1 kilogram powder; 80 kilograms to make 1 kilogram powder. BUT, it's a liquid?

Tricky tricky! Seems they forgot a step since they are selling a liquid.

This is done with laboratory equipment and must go through an additional step of adding this powder extract to a glycerin filler base or an alcohol base - a.k.a dilution tincture.

But they have extracted nothing into the liquid. They simply add a pile of powder of about 5,000 milligrams (or less!) into their "pure" supplement.

Ouch, that hurts the buck doesn't it, because these can cost 80-250 bucks a bottle? Save yourself and get the best.

Tonic Tinctures Power Velvet is a 1:1 extraction ratio which means {2 ounces (~57,00mgs) of deer antler velvet} is extracted into a {2 ounce bottle}. 

Each dropper is ~1000mgs of deer antler velvet.

The Lowdown: we process in-house and are able to pull a concentrated hydro-alcoholic extraction, without heat, a total of four times on the slices before they are exhausted and completely utilized yielding a think liquid extract that is 45% alcohol by volume. This extra concentrated alcohol extract focuses on the benefits of the scientifically studied Russian alcohol extracts.

Brand Z claims to use an extraction that is over 43:1. By now we can recognize something is amiss from our previous example of ratio extraction with big numbers like 43:1 and 80:1.

This ratio stuff is made to be confusing.

And checking their website we can verify {43 pounds deer antler velvet} are extract into {1 pound deer antler velvet powder extract}, of which they add 1,000mgs to 1 fluid oz.

That's a minimum daily dose for some people.

This company calls their supplement deer antler velvet and lists IGF-1 as an ingredient on the label (that's a no-no!) with artificial flavors, preservatives, and soy stabilizers.

But the potency of their deer antler velvet cannot be deduced as they use only IGF-1 as the marker for deer antler velvet potency. Yes, it is true that deer antler velvet contains growth factors. And then they offer several different strengths of very small nanogram doses of IGF-1 for increasing greater amounts of money. Are they adding IGF-1 to the bottle along with deer antler velvet or turning deer antler velvet into IGF-1

What's going on with all these deer antler sprays?

Brand T is a bunch of similar manufacturers that are available from specialty purveyors of tonic herbs on the internet and on eBay.

Brand T's deceivingly use a partial extraction ratio which can be 3:1, 8:1, or 20:1. If we check the units for their ratio this is kilograms raw material into kilograms powder extract. They tell you its 20 times as potent! That's not what 20:1 means, 20:1 means 20 kilograms to make 1 kilogram.

Tricky tricky!

Save yourself the shopping and research trouble and see if you can make deer antler velvet work for you.

The reason deer antler velvet works is because it is made of the stuff that builds bodies.

Deer Antler Velvet Feeds the Body

Bodily tissues, such as muscle, bone, skin, hair, nails, and joints crave the nutrients and constituents found within deer antler velvet. These raw materials that feed the body include:

This above nutrition will assist the body with healing, regenerating, and growing. Specifically supporting:

Essential Nutrients are Foundational

Easily absorbable essential minerals that are found in deer antler velvet are vital to developing strength for fitness performance, lifting weights, developing physiques, and weight-loss programs:

All of these minerals have functions of supporting and maintaining health that the weightlifter, bodybuilder, and physique athlete will greatly appreciate:

The minerals found within deer antler velvet are vital to normal endocrine function, specifically concerning normal growth and efficient regeneration.

Minerals Support Glandular Hormones

Most important: calcium is critical to parathyroid gland function and the normal functioning of the whole endocrine system. The parathyroid glands, which are embedded in the neck along with the thyroid gland, support hormones concerning energy, regeneration and growth.

Deer antler velvet supports regeneration by its naturally occurring and included trace nanogram amounts of growth factors such as IGF-1, IGF-2 and cytokines. These hormone molecules communicate directly with the endocrine system and the pituitary gland.

Optimal Glandular Function

Deer antler velvet works by the combination of all its constituents to support normal endocrine function thus supporting the pituitary gland for growth and regeneration hormones. When the pituitary gland is supported by a functioning endocrine system, and by proper nutrition, the body will be able to work optimally.

Calcium and magnesium found in deer antler velvet are essential to every muscular contraction in the body.

A lack of calcium limits muscle contraction that in turn hampers building a strong body.

• Calcium is necessary for muscle contraction

After a muscle does work it must release its tissues to allow the circulation of blood to remove by-products of fatigue and support immediate recovery and long-term regeneration, repair, and growth.

• Magnesium is necessary for muscle relaxation

More responsive blood-flow shuttles used-blood from muscles to the liver more effectively for lactic acid conversion back into energy; thus maintaining the lactic acid cycle.

Calcium and magnesium work together to make muscles work better.

Deer antler velvet promotes progress by supporting the ability to do more work and performing harder through nervous innervation.

Electrical Bioavailable Minerals

Deer antler velvet contains additional minerals that support nerve impulses and lifting technique for proper form and the stimulation of whole muscle groups for the best performance and development.

• Sodium, Zinc and Phosphorus are highly electrical minerals that assist nerve impulses to support the contraction of more muscles in groups.

Sodium, zinc and phosphorus work with calcium to support the contraction of entire muscle groups required in compound exercises such as:

• Bench Press
• Squat
• Deadlift

A few well-done working sets of these exercises is all you need to develop all the major muscle groups for a fully developed and strong physique.

Muscle and Joint Flexibility

Additionally, the mineral manganese is necessary for pliable muscles and joints, which means that manganese help muscles and joints maintain stretchable and flexible properties concerning efficient ranges-of-motion and proper posturing of muscle groups.

• Manganese is necessary for flexibility and posture

3 Packs of Deer Antler Velvet or Power Velvet

Either is an effective way to take deer antler velvet and find out how to produce results. They contain all the nutrients and constituents in an optimal formulation for the greatest overall support and maintenance. Most fitness, weight-loss, weightlifters, bodybuilders, and physique athletes may take 2-6 droppers a day.

Power Pack – This special pack includes various deer antler velvet formulations for certain effects that are best programmed in specific ways. Please go to this page for specific programming.

Deer antler velvet has a recent history of being used as a performance enhancer in Olympic weightlifting sports by the Russians during the 1970's and 80's.

Part of a Pre-workout Program

When taking deer antler velvet as a pre-workout, feel free to combine deer antler velvet with any other pre-workout supplements, be sure to start with a minimum serving of deer antler velvet. Your dose will be less since you are also taking a pre-workout. Someone can only take so much of anything at any time.

Supplemental Performance Enhancement

The alcohol extract of deer antler velvet, as used and studied by the Russians, is the pre-workout enhancer part of deer antler velvet and is most found in our Power Velvet which is recommended during times of performance enhancement.

To use as a pre-workout: take 30 minutes minimum before working out. Start with 1 dropper the first couple workout sessions and then work up to more if desired. DO NOT take on an empty stomach, especially with a pre-workout - try to have eaten a meal or something substantial food-wise in the previous 2-4 hours.

No, deer antler velvet is not banned. Deer antler spray was banned for a very brief peroid of time due to scammy marketing that compared it to a drug which still goes on today.

What is Deer Antler Spray?

Deer Antler Velvet Sprays are dilutions of deer antler velvet with little nutritional value and often mixed with other vitamins and herbs in an attempt to falsely mimic performance enhancing drugs (PED) like IGF-1.

Deer Antler Velvet is Not the Drug IGF-1

Deer antler sprays tricked a lot of people and still do by their whacky marketing which has left them with a bad experience, even big names and big sports. How, they put IGF-1 as an ingredient on the supplement label, so are they adding drugs?

False Marketing Claims Strike Again

Several years ago, back in 2013 deer antler spray became a controversy that got Ray Lewis into trouble when he was taking deer antler spray which the NFL thought was a drug due to false marketing claims.

Tricky Devil Did It

Luckily Ray Lewis wasn't kicked off the team and out of football for using deer antler spray, which was confusingly thought to contain the banned drug substance IGF-1.

Major Sports Leagues Ban Drugs

The National Football League (NFL) banned deer antler velvet anyway because it naturally contains anabolic growth factors called IGF-1 and was falsely associated with performance enhancing drug (PED) use. Equally ridiculous, Major League Baseball (MLB) banned deer antler velvet supplements for possibly containing testosterone drugs, not IGF-1.

WADA Bans Deer Antler Velvet - Then POOF! WADA Un-bans Deer Antler Velvet, WTF?

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) was freaking out, quickly banned deer antler velvet, and then changed their minds to only warn athletes. Professional Golf Association (PGA) athlete Vijay Singh, got suspended. Vijay and the PGA settled out of court in 2018 over being wrongly accused of using a PED.

Does the Label Say IGF-1? Beware!

Inaccurately labeled supplements that claim they contain IGF-1 as an ingredient in the supplement facts can get athletes sanctioned. Are other companies adding IGF-1 drugs to their supplements?

DoD is Scared of Deer Antler Velvet

The Department of Defense (DoD) mistakenly claims that deer antler velvet is risky and wrongly advises athletes to exercise 'extreme caution' because there may be growth factors, which are an everyday and integral part of animal and human cellular metabolism, in the velvet antlers of deer! LOL! The DoD thinks supplements, like deer antler velvet, are NOT 'real' food. Isn't all of this just dumb since the definition of a supplement is that it is food?

Medical Quacks Prove a Supplement is Not a Drug

Contradictory websites like the NIH compare deer antler velvet to drug medication and are scared that it contains growth factors; plus they prove it is NOT a performance enhancing drug. wtf, right? Isn't this medical quackery?

It's sure funny how confused everyone got about performance enhancing drugs and a simple dietary supplement like deer antler velvet!

And yet many will still be tricked into thinking deer antler velvet is a drug...spritz, spritz the deer antler velvet spray!

Although they vary with the mode of supplementation, namely, liquid extract, powder capsules or slices, deer antler velvet is easy-to-take on a daily basis; which is the best way to get tangible results so that it may work by building-up the body's nutrition.

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