Myprotein Alpha Men review

Our take: cheap, busy and not better for it

Myprotein Alpha Men is sold as a “super multivitamin” for active men, and its ingredient list is built to look impressive: the usual vitamins and minerals, plus Korean ginseng, ginkgo biloba, royal jelly, nettle leaf, grape seed extract, alpha lipoic acid, kelp, choline, inositol and digestive enzymes. It is also cheap, at roughly 13p to 20p a day.

The problem is that length is not strength. The evidence that a multivitamin helps a man who already eats reasonably is weak, and a tablet that must hold two dozen other ingredients can only contain small amounts of each botanical — far below the doses used in studies of them. Some of those botanicals also bring real cautions: ginkgo with blood thinners, royal jelly with allergies and asthma, kelp with thyroid conditions.

This is a desk review. We have read the published ingredient list, UK retailer listings and the research on multivitamins in healthy adults. We have not taken these tablets, tested their contents or run a trial. We could not open Myprotein’s own product page, the per-serving amounts were not confirmable from the listings we could read, and listings disagree on how many tablets to take, so this page does not quote amounts.

What exactly are you buying?

Alpha Men is sold in packs of 120 and 240 tablets. Current listings give a serving as two tablets, making a 120-tablet pack 60 days. Some listings instead say two tablets in the morning and two in the evening — four a day, which would halve how long a pack lasts and double the daily dose. Check the directions on your pack and follow them, not a retailer’s copy.

The ingredient list, as published in listings, includes dicalcium phosphate and calcium carbonate, vitamin E, magnesium, choline bitartrate, calcium pantothenate, Korean ginseng extract (10:1), alpha lipoic acid, royal jelly extract (3:1), citrus bioflavonoids, kelp powder, ginkgo biloba extract (50:1), zinc, thiamin, selenomethionine, vitamin B6, vitamin A, riboflavin, nettle leaf extract (4:1), grape seed extract (50:1), inositol, bromelain and other enzymes, along with vitamin D3, vitamin C, vitamin B12, biotin and other nutrients.

The ratios after the extracts — 10:1, 50:1 — describe how concentrated each extract is, not how much is in the tablet. A 50:1 ginkgo extract in a small amount is still a small amount. Our guide to what a supplement label hides explains why extract ratios are often used to make small doses sound large.

What does the evidence say about multivitamins?

The largest randomised trial of a daily multivitamin in men, the Physicians’ Health Study II, followed 14,641 male US doctors for a median of 11 years. The cancer results showed a small reduction in total cancer, and the cardiovascular results no reduction in heart attacks, strokes or cardiovascular death. The US Preventive Services Task Force’s 2022 recommendation found the evidence insufficient to say whether multivitamins prevent heart disease or cancer, and a 2024 analysis of 390,124 healthy US adults found daily multivitamin use was not linked to living longer.

The NHS says most people should get the vitamins and minerals they need from a varied diet, with the clear exception of vitamin D in autumn and winter, when the NHS advises considering 10 µg a day. Our guide to which vitamins to take daily covers the other exceptions.

For the botanicals, the picture is weaker still. Ginseng, ginkgo and alpha lipoic acid have been studied at hundreds of milligrams a day for specific outcomes, with mixed results. None has good evidence of benefit for healthy, active men at the small amounts a multivitamin tablet can hold.

The cautions the extras bring

• Ginkgo biloba may affect blood clotting. Anyone taking warfarin, other anticoagulants, antiplatelet medicines such as clopidogrel, or regular aspirin should check with a pharmacist before taking it, and stop it before surgery.
• Royal jelly can cause allergic reactions, including asthma attacks and, rarely, anaphylaxis, particularly in people with asthma or bee-related allergies.
• Kelp is a natural source of iodine whose content varies. People with thyroid conditions, or taking thyroid medicines, should check with their GP before taking kelp-containing products.
• Stacking: if you also take a pre-workout or another supplement, add up the vitamin B6, vitamin A and zinc against the NHS guidance on safe amounts from supplements.

For most healthy men taking the stated dose, none of this is likely to cause problems. It does mean Alpha Men is a less straightforward product than a plain multivitamin, for no evidence-based gain.

Price: what does a day cost?

In listings read on 28 September 2026, the 120-tablet pack ranged from £7.99 at one sports-nutrition retailer to about £9.77 on Amazon and £11.99 at another retailer. At two tablets a day, that is roughly 13p to 20p a day; at four a day, 26p to 40p. We read these prices from listings rather than taking an order through checkout.

At two tablets a day, that is cheaper than Wellman Original at its usual price and far cheaper than Opti-Men, but two to four times the cost of Tesco A–Z at about 5.5p.

Best alternatives

The ones we have fully reviewed are linked, and appear in the comparison cards below this article. The others we name for comparison only: we have not reviewed them in full, so do not read their inclusion as a recommendation.

• A plain 10 µg vitamin D tablet — the best alternative for most men who eat a varied diet, since vitamin D is the one gap the NHS expects most people in the UK to have. A few pence a day.
• Tesco A–Z Multivitamins & Minerals (reviewed) — our highest-scoring multivitamin: a conventional one-a-day with no botanicals, at about 5.5p a day. Check its iron.
• Vitabiotics Wellman Original (reviewed) — one tablet a day with 10 µg of vitamin D, fewer botanicals, but B6 just under the NHS limit and added iron.
• Optimum Nutrition Opti-Men (reviewed) — the big-brand sports multi, no iron on the European formula, but three tablets a day at several times the price.

Who should skip it, and what to watch for

Skip it if you eat a varied diet and only need vitamin D. Skip it, or check with a pharmacist first, if you take blood thinners or regular aspirin, have asthma or a bee or pollen allergy, have a thyroid condition, or already take other supplements containing B6, vitamin A or zinc.

Take it with food. Anyone taking prescription medicines should check with a pharmacist, since minerals can reduce the absorption of some antibiotics and thyroid medicines. The listings we read made no banned-substance testing claim, so drug-tested athletes should look for a batch-certified product.

Food supplements sold in Great Britain are not approved by a regulator for safety or effectiveness before sale, so the label is the manufacturer’s responsibility rather than a regulator’s endorsement.

Sources and shopping: our UK buying checklist

Before you buy, read the directions on the pack for the number of tablets a day, and the panel for vitamin D, B6 and iron. Work out the cost per day at that dose, and compare it with a supermarket A–Z and a plain vitamin D tablet.

Our commercial link for this product is our Myprotein Alpha Men link. It earns us a commission at no extra cost to you, and it has no influence on the score above — which is a 5.2, held back by weak evidence that well-fed men benefit, botanical extras at doses we could not confirm and that add cautions, and conflicting directions.

The fair summary is this. Alpha Men is cheap, but its long list of extras makes it more complicated without making it more useful. A simpler multivitamin, or just vitamin D, does the job with fewer caveats.