People find us by searching for the wrong name. Masculinity lab. Men lab. Menhood labs. Manhood lab. The search data is fairly clear that a lot of men remember roughly what we are called and not exactly, which seems like a good reason to explain where the name came from and what we actually do.
I am Edvards. I make MenhoodLab. Here is the short version.
Where the name came from
Menhood is the plain word for the thing this is about: being a man, in the ordinary sense, at an ordinary age, with the ordinary changes that come with it. Not peak performance. Not optimisation. Not the version of masculinity that gets sold with a barbell and a cold plunge.
The men we make this for are mostly in their late forties, fifties and sixties. They have noticed that afternoons are heavier than they used to be, that drive is not quite automatic, that recovery takes longer. They are not looking to become someone else. They are looking to feel like themselves.
The Lab half is the bit I care about more, and it is not decoration.
Before you buy anything, read the label
Most labels print a large total in milligrams and leave out the number that decides whether the product does anything, which is how much of the standardised active compound you actually get per serving. The Label Test is the five-point check we use, and it takes about a minute per bottle. It applies to our formulas as much as to anyone else's.
What the "lab" part is supposed to mean
Before I made anything, I spent a long time reading the backs of other people's bottles. Almost none of them tell you how much of anything is inside.
The mechanism is a phrase called proprietary blend. It is legal permission to list ingredients without listing amounts. So a bottle can put fourteen impressive names on the front, and the back will tell you the blend weighs 900mg without telling you whether the headline ingredient is 800mg of that or 8mg. Usually it is closer to 8.
A company that has put a meaningful dose in the bottle has no reason to hide it. A company that has put in a pinch has every reason. Once you understand that, the label becomes the most honest part of any supplement.
So the rule here is simple: every amount is printed. No proprietary blends, on any product, ever. If you want to check what you are buying against what the research actually used, you can.
What that looks like in practice
It means our labels are less impressive-looking than most, and I would rather explain why than fix it with a blend.
Take FOR HIM Blend. One ingredient does the real work: epimedium, 1000mg, standardised to 100mg icariins per serving. Standardised matters, because "epimedium extract" describes the weight of the powder and says nothing about how much of the active compound is in it, and that varies by a factor of ten between suppliers.
There are eight other ingredients in there, and some of them are small. I print all nine anyway, because the alternative is hiding them behind a word, and you should be the one deciding whether that trade is worth it rather than finding out later.
The same applies to Night Watch for prostate support and Frame & Engine for bone and heart. Three products. Not twelve. I would rather make three properly.
What we will not tell you
This is a supplement company, so it is worth being explicit about the limits.
These are daily botanical formulas. They support normal function. They are not medicine, they do not treat anything, and they are not a substitute for a doctor. If something has changed sharply, or you have symptoms that worry you, that is an appointment rather than a purchase.
We also will not use before-and-after photos, invented customers, or a doctor who does not exist. That is unfortunately worth saying out loud in this category.
What we will do is tell you what is in the bottle, at what dose, made in an FDA-registered and GMP-certified facility, with a 60-day guarantee that exists because a daily formula needs weeks before you can judge it honestly and you should not be the one carrying that risk.
If you were looking for us
Whatever you typed to get here, this is the place. A few starting points:
If you want the background on what actually changes in a man's body in this decade, read men's vitality after 45.
If you want the practical version, what supplements a man over 45 should take is the sequencing guide, and blood tests men over 45 should ask for covers what to measure first.
If you would rather just read a label, every product page prints the full panel. That was the whole point.
More about the company is on our about page, and the guarantee page explains exactly how returns work.
Edvards
Founder, MenhoodLab
These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.