From a hair loss and baldness perspective, the herb - saw palmetto - stands out as the main one for reducing the levels of DHT that may be causing your baldness and hair loss - if you are a male.

Saw Palmetto dosage is around 160 milligrams, twice daily for hair loss and balding.

Male pattern baldness is caused by DHT, and Saw Palmetto can counteract DHT, thereby apparently counteracting some of the baldness and hair loss.

Saw Palmetto has been found to reduce the level of DHT (DiHydroTestosterone), which causes hair follicles to stop growing hair.

It may also reduce the action of 5-alpha-reductase, which means reduce the conversion of testosterone to DHT.

Both these effects of Saw Palmetto are important when looking at preventing or stopping hair loss and baldness, as well as to regrow the hair.

Saw Palmetto is sold as a herbal product in it's own right, or as part of a multi-herbal product - natural ingredients, normally no added additives.

Evening Primrose Oil

Is about the only other herbal DHT product, apart from Saw Palmetto, that works to stops the conversion of testosterone to DHT.

130 milligrams GLA concentration, in a 1,300 milligram capsule of this herb is what I'd be after.

Saw Palmetto Products

What else does the herb, Saw Palmetto, do?

Beneficial effects of Saw Palmetto can be found through history.

During the time when indians came into Florida, they depended on berries as part of their regular diet. They found that Saw palmetto had medicinal properties and was a good herb to use.

The Saw Palmetto product book of Dr. Edwin M. Hale, which was publicized in Boericke & Tafel, Philadelphia USA.

It was stated in the book that the medical importance of Saw Palmetto as a tincture of fruit and squeezed seedlings, lay in it's use for patients with prostate gland swelling and as an aphrodisia.

Nowadays Saw Palmetto products are used for three major effects it has:

Firstly, they may act on the male testes and may increase sperm count and sex drive in men. Saw Palmetto increases the plasma androgen hormones, such as testosterone.

Secondly, it can play a very important role in defeating BPH - Benign Prostatic hyperplasia. In its use for treating BPH (This is a none malignant tumor of the prostate), various active ingredients in saw palmetto have been recognized as aiding the treatment of BPH.

Recent medical updates suggests Saw Palmetto is a leading prostate treatment, but on cancer it's apparently no good.

Thirdly, it is used to regow hair and prevent hair loss.

One adverse side effect, which is questionable, may be that saw palmetto may increase the level of estrogen hormones in the blood plasma, but this is considered insufficent to produce female attributes.

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Baldness and premature hair loss can be caused by genetics and therefore run in a family

Male pattern baldness can happen to male teenagers as well as to men.

Females are at risk of developing hair loss and female baldness, due to hormonal changes, such as with giving birth, or getting pregnant.

After age 30, hair loss and baldness in both men and women is to be expected.

After age 40, males will typically show signs of male pattern baldness and females will normally start seeing their hair thinning out.

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