My experience with Pine pollen Tincture

My name is Curro Cachinero. I am the founder of Adaptonics. In this article, I describe my experience with Pine Pollen Tincture.

Why should you do this?

When you consume Pine Pollen in its raw form, you benefit from its many nutrients. When you realize that, under the right conditions, an entire tree could grow from each individual grain of pollen, it is hardly surprising that pollen contains an enormous number of nutrients. Nor is it surprising that Traditional Chinese Medicine claims that Pine Pollen is a rich source of ‹Chi›.

I tried it myself. After spending an entire day collecting it, I made myself a proper shake in the evening. I woke up at three in the morning. I felt like a real Super Saiyan—just ‹Bazooka›.

Note: In the EU, it is prohibited to make health claims about food supplements that are not supported by long-term scientific studies. That is a good thing. Here, I am reporting exclusively my personal, subjective experiences, which cannot readily be transferred to other people. There must be at least this much freedom of speech in this country.

You can find countless personal accounts of Pine Pollen online. For my part, I can only confirm this: the claim about morning wood is absolutely true, at least for me—and not only in the morning. My subjective observation: something is also happening when it comes to sperm production—at least, my girlfriend regularly complains about it.

I also experience increased alertness and a kind of Stone Age ‹hunter energy› in everyday life, which, in today’s vocabulary, might also be called positive ‹eustress›: the urge to kick everyone’s ass and ‹finally get things done›. Testosterone, basically.

During athletic training, I observe a slight increase in performance, estimated at five to ten percent. The recovery periods feel shorter. And even though my diet consisted only of soup and apples for a while and regular training was often interrupted, I have gained more than three kilograms of pure mass over the past few months—muscle!

Pine Pollen Tincture

At first, I only knew raw pollen and was extremely enthusiastic about it. Then I made my own tincture. I observed another noticeable increase in the effects described above. For a while, I thought raw pollen might actually be better. When my tincture ran out, I switched back to raw pollen. Only then did I notice clearly how powerful the tincture is. Since then, I have absolutely wanted nothing else.

Some advantages

Over the many weeks during which the tincture infuses, the alcohol dissolves substances that the body is unable to extract on its own and would therefore simply excrete. This particularly concerns the substances that interest me—namely, testosterone. If I want vitamins, which are also plentiful in pollen, I eat a damn apple. If I want protein, minerals, or amino acids, I simply eat a proper steak.

However, I find testosterone in a purely plant-based form nowhere else—not in Tribulus, Maca, or other passing fads, regardless of what the respective suppliers promise. By plant-based, I mean in its natural matrix rather than as an isolated preparation. (No plant guarantees harmlessness, by the way—anyone with pre-existing conditions or taking medication should ask a doctor first.) I am also experimenting with L-Arginine. It tastes awful—and it is best to research dosage and tolerability thoroughly yourself, because these vary from person to person and I do not want to make blanket recommendations.

Of course, there are many other ways to naturally increase testosterone levels, for example by consuming large amounts of egg yolk or cholesterol, as Tim Ferris, the ‹first human guinea pig›, explains in ‹The 4-Hour Body›. Tim Ferris was also the person who popularized Pine Pollen in the United States. The Pine Pollen pope, Harrod Buhner, has also written several books on the subject. Covering the topic adequately could easily fill an entire article.

So the idea behind the tincture is this: over several weeks, the alcohol extracts substances that the body might simply excrete when consuming raw pollen—and black pepper (piperine) is supposed to provide additional support for absorption. Whether this actually makes the decisive difference for the steroids it contains remains scientifically unresolved. My subjective experience says: definitely yes.

Learn more about Pine Pollen in our comprehensive Pine Pollen guide. I show exactly how a tincture is made, step by step, in Secondary Plant Compounds from Wild Plants.