Saw Palmetto Benefits: Enlarged Prostate Treatment & Reduce Nighttime Urination
Saw Palmetto (Serenoa repens) is a berry that grows naturally within the southeast United States. While saw palmetto has an established reputation amongst herbalists as an herbal impotence cure, it also helps men with enlarged prostate symptom by decreasing the size of the prostate (by over 60% for some patients), reducing prostate pain, and helping the prostate functions more effectively. When men begin to experience difficulty in urination or more frequent urge to urinate, this medical condition is termed benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). Saw Palmetto berry block the enzyme responsible for converting free testosterone to the toxic dihydrotestosterone (DHT) molecule & it acts as an alpha-adrenergic receptor inhibitor, reducing frequent nighttime urination, and inflammatory actions in the prostate gland.
After reviewing 21 studies involving more than 3,000 men averaging 65 years of age, doctors reporting in the journal American Family Physician concluded that saw palmetto extract is beneficial and is one of the affordable supplements for prostate help (Gordon 2003).
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The use of saw palmetto DHT blocker and other prostate herbs have been found effective in treating prostate problems symptoms. Research now shows that a simple preparation of saw palmetto prostate complex is safe and effective alternative to standard drug therapy, and produces no saw palmetto side effects in BPH treatment.
Saw Palmetto Benefits & Effects:
a) Relieve many symptoms of BPH including difficult urination, excessive urination (frequent urge to urinate), nocturia (frequent urination at night), residual urine (incomplete emptying of the bladder) b) Improve BPH by counteracting inflammation, muscle spasms, and edema (swelling) of the prostate
a) Relieve many symptoms of BPH including difficult urination, excessive urination (frequent urge to urinate), nocturia (frequent urination at night), residual urine (incomplete emptying of the bladder)
b) Improve BPH by counteracting inflammation, muscle spasms, and edema (swelling) of the prostate
A three-month, double-blind clinical trial indicated that when combined with pumpkin seed (Cucurbita pepo), the positive influence of saw palmetto is significantly augmented. The impact of pumpkin seed and saw palmetto was compared with that of a placebo in 53 northern European men between the ages of 50 and 80. Using ultrasound technology as well as subjective reporting, the researchers noted a significantly positive difference in seven measures of urinary health among the men receiving the herbal combination (Carbin 1990).
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