Deer Velvet has been prized in Oriental medicine for its health and rejuvenating properties for 2000 years.

Welcome to our information page on Deer Velvet.

Learn how you may improve your wellbeing with Deer Velvet. 

Deer Velvet provides you with natural support to:
    •     Improve joint mobility

    •     Boost your immune system

    •     Increase your stamina

    •     Fight stress and fatigue

    •     Enhance your stength

Extensive research in Russia, China, Korea and New Zealand has shown that deer velvet contains a rich source of essential minerals, vitamins, major amino acids, and other nutrients. Including:
    •     Proteins
    •     Over 30 amino acids, including 10 of the most essential
    •     Collagen - for your healthy skin, hair, and a vital protein component for your      bones, tendons, ligaments and cartilage.
    •     Lipids - boosting energy to cells. Deer Velvet includes Omega 3 and 6.
    •     Chondritin - a potent anti-inflammatory agent.

Deer Velvet is being has been used by a growing number of athletes, including Hamish Carter, winner of the Triathlon Olympic Gold in Athens.

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As with all supplement products, there can be a concern over the quality of what you are getting. With any product there are many companies that will offer cheap, adulterated forms just to get sales and boost profits. We encourage you to ensure that the company selling the product can provide the grade, potency and research of the velvet you are purchasing. For those of you who are concerned about the treatment of the deer in the harvesting of the velvet, suppliers from New Zealand are regulated to ensure that the deer velvet is harvested in a humane way, and under veterinary supervision. Some of them are even able to offer traceability back to the farm where the deer velvet was sourced.

In New Zealand, one of the world's leading producers of deer velvet that is harvested in a humane way, it has been mainly aimed at the sporting market as studies show it can boost the recovery and strength of athletes. Now it is getting wider acknowledgment as a general health benefit as more research shows the benefits of deer velvet on joint function and all-round good health.

Just What Is Deer Velvet?

Deer Velvet, also known as Deer Antler, or Antler Velvet, refers to  the part of the male deer antler that grows each year. Before they become hard and calcified, they are mostly a soft tissue which is covered in fine hair, hence the name, velvet. Because the antlers on male deer grow every year, if they are not removed at an early stage, they harden and are used as weapons, causing harm to other deer.

Is Deer Velvet an aphrodisiac?

The is no direct clinical evidence that deer velvet acts as an aprhodisiac. However the overall health boosting qualities and recovery enhancement that use of deer velvet can bring, puting you in a more healthy state, is probably why it has long been used as part of chinese medicine for this purpose.