Orchic — answers to orchic tissue / bovine testicle extract
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A glandular extract prepared from animal (typically bovine) testicular tissue, historically used in a practice called glandular therapy, which holds that consuming an organ's tissue supports the corresponding organ in the body.
Why it’s used
Taken by some in the belief that it supports testicular or hormonal function, though this rests on the traditional glandular-therapy concept rather than a documented biological mechanism.
What the evidence says
There is essentially no rigorous clinical research on oral orchic extract in humans. Its underlying premise, that eating an organ's tissue supports that organ, is not an established physiological mechanism.
Where we looked
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- PubMed: 0 records · searched August 2026
"Orchic"[Title/Abstract] AND ("dietary supplements"[MeSH] OR supplementation[Title/Abstract] OR supplement[Title/Abstract] OR supplements[Title/Abstract] OR "oral administration"[Title/Abstract]) AND (randomized controlled trial[pt] OR clinical trial[pt] OR meta-analysis[pt] OR systematic review[pt]) AND humans[MeSH] - PubMed: 3 records · searched August 2026
"Orchic"[Title/Abstract]
This says what this database holds under these terms. It is not a finding that no research exists.
Context
No studied human dosing protocols were identified.
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