At Nootropics Depot, we're committed to raising the standards of the supplement industry through rigorous lab testing and transparency. This month, we spoke with Greg Doucette, IFBB Pro bodybuilder and founder of HTLT supplements, about the Turkesterone controversy that raised significant concerns within the bodybuilding community in 2022. Greg is known for his impressive YouTube following and bold personality - not to mention his physique. When Nootropics Depot tested Greg’s product, Turk Builder, and found it didn’t meet its claimed Turkesterone content, Greg chose to address the issue and take corrective action. In this podcast, we share lab results from Turkesterone products across the market, including those from HTLT's Turk Builder Max. Join us as we discuss the importance of integrity and quality in the supplement industry and explore the science behind these findings. This is an important step towards greater transparency—tune in to learn more! Chapters 0:00 Introduction 3:22 Turkesterone - Nootropics Depot Starts Asking Questions 4:30 HTLT - Fails Turkesterone Testing, Scandal Insues 5:45 Nootropics Depot Wants To Help Companies Improve 6:39 Turkbuilder Was a Fraud?! 7:50 FINALLY Greg Feels Vindicated 9:28 HTLT Thought They Were Doing The Right Thing 12:22 HPLC - High Performance Liquid Chromatography 15:34 TurkMax and TurkBuilder are VERIFIED PURE 19:18 Companies are Buying Fake Turkesterone and Profiting 21:55 How Did Greg Discover Turkesterone? Greg Meets Marwan 25:50 Difference Between Chinese and Uzbek Turkesterone 28:00 Turk Allows You To Feel More Aggression and Train Harder 28:39 Reselling Turkbuilder - A Second Chance 30:24 Everyone Wants A Mechanism of Action?! 34:24 Ecdysterone vs. Turkesterone Ratio 38:10 Ensuring Product Quality - For the Meatheads 38:28 Turkesterone is a Product that Can Make You Better 43:00 Researchers Aren’t Always Transparent 44:30 Quoting Bad Studies - How To Prove Identity and Purity? 49:00 TurkBuilder Uses Turkesterone as a Quality Control Point 51:45 Comparing TurkBuilder, TurkMax, and Beta Ecdysterone ND 55:58 Suppliers Lying and Spiking Products 57:30 Do It Right TWICE 59:50 Expedition to Uzbekistan 1:03:27 Terroir within Supplements - Ingredients and The Elements 1:08:30 Tasting Compounds - Can You Eat Ajuca Turkistanica Raw? 1:09:55 - Other Ecdysterone Compounds 1:12:14 Thank You To HTLT Partners in Uzbekistan 1:18:55 Snake Oil - The Real Story 1:20:00 What’s your favorite exercise in the gym? 1:27:25 Mr. Happy Stack 1:33:50 Requiem For A Dream? 1:38:06 I Feel Vindicated