What did @aa.ron.savingclub actually say?
The creator is pitching a two-product bundle: a nitric oxide chew with "5,000 milligrams of beets per serving" and a separate prostate health chew. The hook is blunt: your blood vessels are clogged, your nitric oxide production has dropped 50% since your 20s, and "50% of men will experience BPH by the time they're 40." The promise is that two chews a day of each product will fix your blood flow, improve your stamina, reduce prostate inflammation, and have you "sleeping like a baby." He's also implying, through a joke about a partner leaving, that poor circulation is hurting your sex life. The product is framed as support, not treatment, but the claims made in the video go considerably further than that framing suggests.
Does the science back this up?
The nitric oxide decline claim has real science behind it, but the prostate statistic is mangled, and the therapeutic jumps are not supported. Here is what the evidence actually shows.
On nitric oxide: research does confirm that endothelial nitric oxide synthase activity declines with age. Taddei et al. (2001, Hypertension) found that NO-mediated vasodilation decreases significantly in older adults. A 50% drop by age 40 is a rough approximation, not a precise clinical figure, and the timeline is compressed. Most research places significant decline in the 50s and 60s, not 40.
On beet-derived nitrates: dietary nitrate from beetroot does raise plasma nitrite and can modestly improve blood pressure and exercise performance. A meta-analysis by Lara et al. (2016, Nutrients) found meaningful but modest effects. "5,000 milligrams of beets" sounds impressive, but the relevant compound is nitrate, not total beet weight. Without knowing nitrate concentration, that number means almost nothing.
On prostate chews: zinc and selenium do appear in prostate health research, but the evidence for supplementation preventing or treating BPH is weak. The SELECT trial (Lippman et al., 2009, JAMA) found that selenium supplementation did not reduce prostate cancer risk and may have increased it in some subgroups. Zinc's role is even less established for BPH specifically.
What did they get wrong (or right)?
Credit where it is due: the general idea that nitric oxide production declines with age and that beet-derived nitrates can support vascular function is not invented. That part of the pitch is grounded in real physiology, even if it is simplified.
But the BPH statistic is wrong in a specific way. The creator says "50% of men will experience BPH by the time they're 40." That is not accurate. According to the American Urological Association and data from Roehrborn (2005, Reviews in Urology), BPH prevalence reaches roughly 50% by age 50 to 60, not 40. By age 40, histologic BPH is present in only about 8-10% of men. Compressing the timeline by 10-20 years is a significant error that inflates urgency for a younger audience.
The claim that these chews will reduce inflammation, open blood vessels, improve stamina, and fix nighttime urination is never substantiated. Each of those outcomes would require its own clinical evidence. Stringing them together into one product pitch does not make them collectively true. The phrase "support that inflammation" is doing a lot of work for a product that has no peer-reviewed trial behind it.
What should you actually know?
If you are a man in your 30s or 40s and you are noticing urinary symptoms or changes in energy and circulation, those are worth discussing with a doctor, not a TikTok cart. BPH is real, common, and manageable, but it is diagnosed through history, physical exam, and sometimes imaging. A chew is not a diagnostic tool.
Beetroot supplementation is reasonably safe and has modest evidence for blood pressure and exercise performance. If you like beets and want to add them to your diet, that is a defensible choice. Paying a premium for a "chew bundle" because a creator implied your partner left you due to clogged arteries is a different calculation.
Selenium supplementation, specifically, is one area where more is not better. The SELECT trial is a cautionary data point that should make anyone skeptical of undisclosed doses in prostate supplements. If you are considering any supplement for prostate health, ask your urologist, not the comment section.
None of this is a replacement for testosterone evaluation if you are experiencing fatigue, low libido, or performance changes. Those symptoms have a differential diagnosis. Supplements that gesture at multiple systems at once are often covering for the fact that they have strong evidence for none of them.