Primal Queen is a beef organ supplement marketed to women. The company claims that women taking Primal Queen experienced higher energy levels, and greater satisfaction with their menstrual cycle.
But what's actually in Primal Queen? Are its ingredients shown in research studies to have these effects? Does Primal Queen contain any unhealthy ingredients? And is it better than other popular women's health supplements like Hormone Harmony?
In this article we'll answer all of these questions and more, as analyze the ingredients in Primal Queen to give our take on whether or not it's likely to be effective for women's hormonal health, and whether or not it's healthy overall.
We'll share our concerns with one of the company's research claims, and compare Primal Queen's formulation to other popular women's health supplements to pick our winners (and losers).
Key takeaways:
- Questionable health claims
- Some nutrient-dense active ingredients
- We do not currently recommend Primal Queen
Ingredient Analysis
The active ingredients in Primal Queen are shown below:
All of these ingredients are beef organs.
Bovine uterus powder is an ingredient we've never come across before in an Illuminate Health review.
We're unable to identify any research studies on the safety of bovine uterus consumption.
Although it is a whole food and natural, we don't understand why this ingredient would be chosen. If it's because the supplement is marketed to women, this seems illogical unless there is research showing that bovine uterus consumption benefits women's health (which we cannot identify).
The good thing about organ meat consumption is that it's extremely nutritious.
Organ meats are rich in vitamin A, vitamin b12, iron, zinc, folate, selenium, choline and essential fatty acids, as we documented in our heart and soil reviews article.
The inactive ingredients in Primal Queen, shown below, should be safe and non-toxic:
Overall, we consider Primal Queen to be a healthy supplement (in moderation) that may improve energy (due to the nutrient density), but we're unconvinced that it will have any female-hormone-specific health effects.
Questionable Clinical Claim on Brand Website
The company claims their supplement caused significant improvement across in three areas of health in a clinical trial:
What they conveniently leave out is that women in the study taking placebo pills experienced similar effects.
The study was placebo-controlled, and concluded the following:
"Importantly, both the Primal Queen and placebo groups showed improvements over the 12 week study (a common occurrence in supplement trials due to placebo effect and natural cycle variation). Because of this, differences between groups did not reach statistical significance."
It's also important to note that this was a study conducted by a private research organization.
As we've mentioned in many Illuminate Health articles, we recommend that consumers entirely disregard health claims based on this type of study, due to the potential bias.
Clinical trials published in peer-reviewed journals are what we recommend checking for.
Primal Queen vs. Popular Women's Supps
Here's how Primal Queen compares to other popular women's health supplements in terms of potential effectiveness, and potential safety, in our opinion:
Hormone Harmony
Like Primal Queen, this brand makes health claims we disagree with.
However, we consider its formulation to be superior from a potential efficacy perspective, as it contains active ingredients like fennel seed which are clinically shown to support female hormonal health.
Winner: Hormone Harmony
Ristela
Three of the four active ingredients have clinical backing, as we documented in our Ristela review article.
Winner: Ristela
Pink Pussycat Honey
This popular women's sexual health supplement is manufactured by a company that received an FDA warning for unapproved drug ingredients being included.
Winner: Primal Queen
