Shopper's Guide•Women's Health
6 things I noticed after my girlfriend started drinking Superbalance
Summary: Three years in, something between us had gone quiet, and I'd assumed it was me. It wasn't, exactly, and it wasn't her either. Here's what I worked out, mostly by accident, and what changed over the next couple of months.
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1. It took a friend saying it out loud
A friend and I ended up comparing notes one afternoon, the way men usually don't. His story from six months earlier was mine now: not tonight, maybe tomorrow, never her idea. Then, for him, it had changed. That conversation is more or less the video here, and it's the reason I went looking.
2. I'd assumed it was me, or the phone, or just year three
Every explanation worked on its own. We were both tired. She was on her phone, I was on the TV. That's what year three looks like, I told myself. What I couldn't explain away was that it wasn't only that: the sugar cravings, the mood that turned on a dime, the way she was wound tight by Sunday night for no reason either of us could name.
3. The ingredient is shatavari, and the research is on women
It's a root, Asparagus racemosus, that Ayurvedic practice has used for women for centuries. The extract in Superbalance, SRI-81, was studied at 300mg in a placebo-controlled trial over eight weeks. Women taking it reported a 34.1% improvement in overall sexual function from baseline, against 19.6% on placebo, with higher satisfaction and less sexual distress. It's her research, not mine. I just read it.
Ademola et al., 2026. Clinical research relates to the SRI-81 shatavari extract at 300mg, not to Nello or to this product.
4. It wasn't only the shatavari
The same stick has myo-inositol at 2,000mg, rhodiola rosea at 200mg, magnesium and B6, and every amount is printed on the panel. I won't pretend I understood all of it the first time. What I did understand was that she'd read the whole label before she bought it, which is more than I'd done for anything I'd ever put in my own body.
5. Eight weeks in, what actually changed between us
I'll be restrained about this because she'll read it. She's the one who suggests things now: dinner out, a Sunday drive, an early night that isn't about sleeping. The phone's still there; it just gets put down. Nothing happened in week one, and if I'd judged it at week two I'd have called it a waste of money. Eight weeks is the honest number.
6. Check the dose before you buy her anything
Plenty of formulas list shatavari and won't say how much. Superbalance has SRI-81 at 300mg, the dose the research used, alongside myo-inositol and rhodiola, every amount printed and third-party tested. An ingredient without a number tells you nothing. She taught me that.
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