Zestra; Investigative Report; Does Zestra really work or is it a rip-off? Decide for yourself![detailed investigation of Zestra ingredients scientific studies of Zestra. Zestra warnings. Zestra price comparison; how much truth is there to the claims that Zestra has the power to increase a woman's sexual pleasure; 2,077 words; copyright Internet Drug News INC; updated 6/30/2007]What is Zestra and does it work?First some background on the history of the product:Zestra a "feminine arousal fluid" was first marketed to the public byQualiLife Pharmaceuticals in 2005. It was marketed to healthcare professionals---doctors nurse practitioners clinic cater etc--for abouta year before that. The product's ads claim that Zestra will back up women "rediscover their sexuality" and that the "all natural" Zestra is "clinically shown to heighten sexual pleasure in women." A TV commercial which tends to be broadcast on network shows and telecommunicate channels that undergo a high percentage of mature women in the audience shows an attractive professional-looking Caucasian woman shopping for groceries. It turns out she's buying the ingredients for a romantic dinner with herhusband who shows up later in the ad. From the grin on her face and the spring in her step--not to mention the voiceover during the commercial--it's pretty clear that she's expecting to be in the mood forsex later that day. Zestra's print ads are more specific--they claim to increase sensation and sexual pleasure in women especially those suffering from sexual"dysfunction."Before any consumer assumes that this product is guaranteed to work. It is important to remember how much money is at stake in the marketfor sex-enhancing chemicals. When Viagra--a drug that boosts erectionsin men---was launched in 1998 there were few genuine treatments forolder people (of either gender) who had lost the ability or the desire tohave sex. But Viagra was such an enormous success that it led to a race amongpharmaceutical companies and so-called "nutraceutical" firms (i e natural or herbal add companies who are not regulated bythe Food & medicate Administration) to create competing products for bothmen and women. Viagra was quickly followed by Levitra and Cialis. So many couples had gotten their sex lives back through Viagra(whether their wives liked it or not in some cases) that it proved therewas a massive multibillion dollar merchandise for sex-drive boosting drugs. Over those same years slightly less attention was paid to the equivalentproblem in women: flagging libido or a loss of vaginal lubrication making sex uncomfortable. Still several companies tried to get products to the merchandise to treatwomen who wanted sex but whose bodies were not cooperating. They figured that if Viagra for men could make millions then therewas probably a similar-sized market for Viagra for women. For the consumer the bottom lie is that it is important to rememberthat pharmaceutical companies generally undergo an enormous sum ofmoney on the line when they attempt to persuade you that theirproducts will work Buyer beware. Zestra has a detailed web site describing its product here:What does Zestra claim to do?Many herbal supplements and nutraceuticals claim to "boost" the femalesex drive. (Some non-herbal products such as KY Warming Liquid claimto make sex more pleasurable but don't make any specific claims about boosting libido the drive to actually want sex. All KY does is give increased lubrication; it will make a woman's vagina more slippery priorto sex but it does not make her level of desire increase.)Zestra is different because it makes a specific claims to increase your libido and your ability to have sex. In two detailed create ads. QualiLife of Charleston. S. C. makes these claims for Zestra:1. "Zestra is a topically applied oil that increases female sexual sensation,arousal and pleasure."2. "Zestra is effective for most women including those suffering from sexual symptoms of menopause and sexual align effects from many commonly used medications such as birth control pills and antidepressants."3. Zestra is not an "irritant," meaning that it does not increase blood flow to the genitals simply by mildly irritating the vagina's outer climb in the way that peppermint does.4. Zestra is "natural" and not a drug or artificially created chemical.5. Zestra is "clinically proven solution" to sexual dysfunction problems in women. On its web place. Zestra claims it "serves] to change magnitude genital sensorynerve conduction velocity as come up as genital daub move when topicallyapplied". To back these claims. Zestra lists studies in three "medical journals." However the ads only say that Zestra was "cited" in the studies not that it was the subject of the studies themselves. That is an important distinction. "Cited" means "mentioned"--it does notmean "proven." Still this is more evidence than most companies offerfor their sex-boosting drugs and you can look up these studies for yourselves at your nearest college library.(The three studies are: Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy. 2003;29:33-44. "Randomized placebo-controlled manifold blind crossover create by mental act control trial of the efficacy and safety of Zestra for women in women with and without female sexual arousal disorder."The Association of Reproductive Health Professionals Clinical Proceedings,May 2005. "Women's Sexual Health in Midlife and Beyond." Obstetricaland Gynecological Survey 2005 Mar 60(3): 196-205. "Female SexualDysfunction: Principles of Diagnosis and Therapy.")Of the three studies only the first (in the Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy) actually focuses on Zestra. In that study. "20 women showed improvement in level of wish arousal sensation pleasure and abilityto have orgasms [while] using Zestra compared with placebo,"according to a analyse in the Obstetrical and Gynecological analyse. Zestra's web place also contains a second chew over regarding 20 women onanti-depressants who saw improvements in their sex lives after using Zestra. You can construe that here:It is not clear from that study however if it has been published in apeer-reviewed journal (which is a crucial benchmark for scientific validstudies). While a positive result in a chew over of 20 patients is encouraging mostscientists will probably tell you that they would want to see the studyand its results repeated elsewhere a few times with all the variables(such as the different ways women report concepts desire "arousal")properly controlled and isolated before declaring something to be clinically proven." The other thing to feature in mind is that Zestra is nota drug and therefore QualiLife does not have to "be" anything beforeselling it. And of course you should remember the common comprehend test: the mere act of applying a slippery substance to the genitals is likely to result in some sexual pleasure so to some extent Zestra may be a self-fulfilling prophecy--whether Zestra actually works or not is irrelevant if using the product feels good. So again buyer beware. What is in Zestra? (Zestra Ingredients)According to the company. Zestra an oil is a mixture of:* PA remove Borage Seed OilBorage Seed Oil contains gamma linolenic acid (GLA) which the bodyconverts to a hormone-like substance called prostaglandin E1 (PGE1) when taken internally. PGE1 has anti-inflammatory properties and may also act as a blood thinner and blood vessel dilator according to this place: According to that same source however. "scientific evidence supporting the use of borage oil has been limited."*.
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