My name is Larry Ostrowski. I'm 67. Retired machinist out of Grand Rapids, Michigan. My wife Bev and I sold the house in 2022 and bought a fifth-wheel. Full-time RVers. That was the plan. Live free. Travel the country. See every national park before we're too old to hike.
The prostate had other plans.
BPH hit me at 58. By 62, I was getting up four times a night in our tiny RV bathroom. By 65, five times. In a fifth-wheel, the bathroom is six feet from the bed. Every trip, the whole rig moves. Bev wakes up every single time. In a house, she could sleep in another room. In a 38-foot trailer, there's nowhere to go.
She started wearing earplugs. They didn't help. You can't earplug away a rocking trailer.
"Larry, I love the travel life. But I can't live in a tin can with a man who uses the bathroom five times a night. I haven't slept in three years."
We almost sold the RV. Three years she'd been suffering as long as I had. Maybe more.
Seven Years. $3,200. Nothing.
Over seven years, I tried everything American medicine had to offer.
Total spent on copays, prescriptions, and supplements over seven years. Total improvement: zero. Actually negative, if you count the Flomax side effects.
Larry's personal records
NAD+ Levels by Age
The Poolside Conversation That Changed Everything
Last January, we were parked at an RV resort outside Sarasota, Florida. Snowbird season. Lot of retirees. I was sitting by the pool and struck up a conversation with a man named Jean-Claude. French-Canadian, originally from Lyon, France. Seventy-three years old. Retired pharmacist.
Men our age, you start talking about health pretty quickly. I mentioned the nocturia. The five trips a night. Jean-Claude looked at me with genuine confusion.
"Why are you not taking the plant extracts?"
"I tried Saw Palmetto. It didn't work."
He shook his head. "No. Not the American Saw Palmetto. The pharmaceutical preparation. In France, we have Permixon — Saw Palmetto extract. We have Tadenan — Pygeum africanum extract. These are prescription medications. They have been since the 1970s. Over 20 clinical trials on Permixon alone. I dispensed them for 35 years in my pharmacy."
"As the first treatment, yes. Before any pharmaceutical drug. The extract is standardized. The dose is clinical. And we combine it with other botanicals — Pygeum, ortie racine — Nettle Root. Your American Saw Palmetto from the drugstore is not the same product."
What European pharmacists have dispensed for 50 years · $40/month
Why Nothing I Tried Worked — And What Europe Got Right
Jean-Claude and I talked for two hours that afternoon. He drew diagrams in the condensation on his beer glass. It came down to two problems.
He explained first-pass metabolism — how my 60-year-old digestive system was destroying the capsule supplements before they could work. Not at him. At every supplement company that had taken my money without solving the actual problem.
Before I left the pool, he wrote on a napkin:
"Find a sublingual prostate formula. Multiple botanicals. Not capsules. And include zinc."
What I Found
I went back to the RV and searched for three hours. Found ROAN NAD+ Mens Complex. Sublingual dropper. Multiple botanicals. Under the tongue. $40. 30-day guarantee.
ROAN NAD+ Mens Complex
Every ingredient listed. Every milligram visible. No proprietary blend.
Saw Palmetto
Inhibits DHT · European-prescribed for decades
Pygeum
Reduces prostate inflammation & swelling
Nettle Root
Blocks SHBG binding · German Commission E approved
NAD+ (as NR)
Cellular energy for prostate repair
Zinc
Prostate-critical mineral · Inhibits 5-alpha reductase
Turmeric
Anti-inflammatory · Reduces prostate growth
I showed Jean-Claude the ingredient list the next morning at the pool. He read it carefully.
"This is close to what I would have recommended in my pharmacy. The NAD+ is a good addition — your prostate cells need energy to repair. Try it."
The First Six Weeks
Subtle Changes
Maybe a slightly less urgent feeling during the day. Wasn't sure if real or wishful thinking. Almost quit — Bev told me to give it a real shot.
The First Sign
Woke up and realized I'd only gotten up twice instead of five times. Happened again the next night. And the next.
Stream Returns
Stream noticeably stronger. Road trip from Sarasota to Asheville — nine hours over two days — stopped twice. Bev had 14 rest stops mapped. We used two.
Sleeping Through
One trip a night, sometimes zero. Bev hasn't worn earplugs in four weeks. The trailer doesn't rock five times a night anymore.
Bev hasn't worn earplugs in four weeks. The trailer doesn't rock five times a night anymore. We drove from Sarasota to Asheville — nine hours over two days — and I stopped twice. Bev had a rest stop map with 14 locations plotted. We used two.
"Larry Ostrowski, I feel like I got my husband back."
| Factor | What I Tried Before | What Changed |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly Cost | $220+ (separate bottles) | $40 |
| Daily Routine | Multiple pills, timed | 1 dropper, 60 seconds |
| Delivery | Oral capsules (destroyed by liver) | Sublingual (direct to blood) |
| Ingredients | Single-ingredient formulas | 6 synergistic compounds |
| Results | None noticeable | Felt within weeks |
Why European Phytotherapy Works When American Supplements Don't
It's not the ingredients. It's the delivery and the combination. American drugstore Saw Palmetto is a crude extract in a hard capsule. Your stomach acid destroys most of it. Your liver metabolizes what's left. By the time anything reaches your prostate, you've lost 70-90% of the active compounds.
European pharmaceutical-grade phytotherapy uses standardized extracts at clinical doses, and the sublingual route bypasses digestion entirely. When you need something in the blood, you don't send it through the gut.
Frequently Asked Questions
Three ways. First, ROAN uses a sublingual dropper — under the tongue — not a capsule your stomach destroys. Second, it's a multi-botanical formula (Saw Palmetto, Pygeum, Nettle Root, Zinc, NAD+, Turmeric) working on different pathways simultaneously, which is how European pharmacists have prescribed for decades. Third, every dose is listed on the label. No proprietary blends.
Flomax causes dizziness and retrograde ejaculation. Finasteride carries risks of sexual dysfunction and depression. ROAN uses the same natural botanicals European doctors have prescribed for decades — without those side effects. It's not a pharmaceutical. It's a sublingual botanical formula.
I noticed a difference around week 3. Stream and urgency improvements came around weeks 4-5. Most men say somewhere between 2 and 6 weeks. It's not overnight — but unlike the drugstore pills, the improvement kept building over time.
ROAN has a 30-day money-back guarantee. If you don't notice a difference, you get every penny back. No hassle. No games.
ROAN is a dietary supplement, so it's not FDA-approved (no supplement is). However, the individual ingredients have decades of clinical research in Europe — Permixon (Saw Palmetto extract) alone has over 20 published trials. It's manufactured in a GMP-certified facility in the United States.
"I was getting up 4-5 times a night and my wife was threatening separate bedrooms. Tried Saw Palmetto capsules for a year — nothing. Started ROAN six weeks ago. Down to once a night, sometimes zero. Should have tried sublingual years ago."
Tom R., 64
Retired contractor, Phoenix, AZ
"Long-haul truck driver. Pulling into rest stops every 90 minutes. Flomax made me dizzy behind the wheel. Three weeks on ROAN, going 3-4 hours between stops. No dizziness. No side effects. Why didn't anyone tell me about this sooner?"
Wayne D., 59
Truck driver, Nashville, TN
"Five years of prostate supplements. ProstaGenix, Super Beta, you name it. All capsules. All useless. A friend in Germany told me the same thing — European doctors use plant extracts. Found ROAN. Night and day difference within a month."
Carl M., 71
Retired, Sarasota, FL
We're Keeping the RV
We're heading to Yellowstone in June. And I'm sleeping through the night in a 38-foot tin can, which is something I couldn't do in a 2,400-square-foot house six months ago.
Failed Supplements
$3,200
/7 years
Flomax Copays
$50+
/month
TURP Surgery
$15K+
one-time
$40
/month
Jean-Claude Asked Me to Include This
"Tell the American men that in Europe, we consider it malpractice to prescribe finasteride before trying phytotherapy. Your doctors are skipping the safest and most effective first step. That is not medicine. That is marketing."
He said it with the kind of quiet anger that only a man who spent 35 years in medicine can carry. He's right. And now you know what he knows.
$40. No prescription needed. No side effects. No surgeon. Just the medicine that Europe has been using for half a century.
