Will Herbal Treatments For An Enlarged Prostate Work?
Does sensitivity to medications used to treat an enlarged prostate plague you and limit their effectiveness? Or have you find them to be absolutely useless?
Maybe just a more natural method for dealing with BPH would be preferable.
Have you heard herbal remedies as the best way to treat your enlarged prostate and want to know more?
Such a choice is not as crazy as some make it out to be. For instance many men suffering from mild to moderate BPH may choose to treat themselves with saw palmetto extracts.
Saw palmetto is derived from the North America dwarf palm. It’s widely used in both the US and Europe by men who believe it can help relieve a swollen prostate.
Reason being, unlike the more commonly prescribed drugs, taking 160 mg of saw palmetto twice daily, you’ll see none of the unpleasant side affects you might with the drugs.
Saw palmetto is one of the best studied herbs and it does not affect the PSA levels in your blood either.
Like with many things, some studies show it reduces inflammation of the prostate and relieves urinary symptoms. Other research didn’t find such benefits. In other words your mileage may vary. And this is not FDA approved either.
Saw palmetto is thought to inhibit DHT which is an enzyme that at least partially accounts for the unexpected late growth of your prostate.
If it’s going to work for you, usually within 3-4 weeks of beginning to take saw palmetto you should see urinary problems like frequency of urination and night time trips to the bathroom lesson. Other benign prostatic hyperplasia symptoms might also drop off. Some by as much as 25%.
You might also want to take selenium tablets and drink cranberry juice every day to keep your prostate and urinary system healthy..
Going the extra mile of also eating pumpkins seeds, a good source of zinc, you may have a natural remedy regime that can work in concert to minimize those enlarged prostate symptoms and promote prostate health.
Yet as exciting as this news might be you still want to keep these three things in mind.
You should always check with your doctor first to get the go ahead for the herbal extracts.
You don’t want to try this herb for a week and then try something else. Herbs take time to work. So be patient before drawing any conclusions.
The final point is the lack of regulation here. Supplement quality is known to vary all over the lot. So you have to check out any manufacturer before handing anyone your money so you have a good idea you’re getting what you’re paying for.
So is saw palmetto the right remedy for your enlarged prostate? Might be or not. Truth is sometimes you just have to give an approach a try to see if it will in your situation.
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Written by Leonard Z Sennish on January 12th, 2010 with
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