Incorrect. I launched the entire avena sativa fad. I made the mistake of using the term "avena sativa" rather than the formulation name A111 because I didn't think A111 exactly jingled on TV. What you consider "avena sativa" is supposed to be an extract of one from 134 variety of green oats. The avenacosides bull shit came along as a marketing tool from some dumbass company that never had anything to do with the original research. (Which one of 134 types is a protected trade secret... and since there were 40 knock offs on the market within a month of my taking the product to TV... where did the knock off artists find time to grwo fields of that one variety? They didn't... they bought groung oat foot powder... also called avena sativa.)
98% of all products being sold as avena sativa are simply ground oats... a powder grade used as foot powder for anti itch ointments. About 2% use Flaschsman extract. A smal percent use Arcopharma extract. There are NO other commercial sources for high grade avena sativa extract. Period. No ands ifs or buts. There are NONE.
And none of the commercially available extracts match the formula that created teh avena sativa fad. It never made it to market. Period.
The foot powder and the commercially available Flacshman do not affect SHBG the way the tested A111 formula did... and with teh death of Nandor Kovacs... don't count on seeing A111 again.