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Saw Palmetto Harvesting Company's World Wide Website is designed to give the purchasers of saw palmetto ( Serenoa repens ) products the most comprehensive knowledge and information to procure the finest quality saw palmetto products in the world today.

Saw Palmetto, whose botanical name is Serenoa repens, is marketed to the general public mainly as a treatment for Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia or BPH. In the USA, the genus/species name is referred to as Serenoa repens. Elsewhere in the world it is referred to as Sabal serrulatum, Sabal serulata, Sabalis serulata, Sabalis serulatae, Serenoa serrulata, Serenoa serrulatae and many other genus/species synonyms. Saw Palmetto, the common name, is referred to as Sabal, Sabal Fructus, Fructus Serenoae, Sägepalme, Sägepalmenfrüchte, and other synonyms around the world. For purposes of this website, we will use the common name Saw Palmetto, and the genus/species name Serenoa repens.

The benefits of Saw Palmetto can be traced back centuries where the aborigines of Florida depended upon the berries as a staple food item and was included in the Indian medicine mans array of healing herbs. In a book titled "Saw Palmetto", written by Edwin M, Hale, M.D. (1898) and published by Boericke & Tafel, Philadelphia, he describes the medicinal value of Saw Palmetto as tinctures of the fruits and crushed seeds being used for the relief of prostate gland swelling and various aphrodisiac qualities.
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Today the product is mainly used for the treatment of conditions associated with BPH (nonmalignant enlargement of the prostate gland). Several factors are recognized as playing a major role in the development of BPH. First, functioning testes and a critical level of androgens are essential to the development of BPH. Second, a change in prostatic androgen metabolism occurs that favors the accumulation of dihydrotestosterone (DHT), and third, an increase in the ratio of plasma estrogens to androgens.

Recent clinical research appears to have proven that Saw Palmetto extract is beneficial in BPH. Its mechanism of action in the treatment of BPH is reported that Saw Palmetto inhibits the conversion of testosterone to DHT, the agent thought to be responsible for the enlargement of the prostrate. In addition Saw Palmetto extract inhibits the binding of DHT to receptors thus blocking its action. It has also been shown to have an inhibitory effect both on androgen and estrogen nuclear receptors. This is accomplished without interfering with testosterone, follicle-stimulating hormone, or luteinizing hormone levels. Most importantly, Saw Palmetto does not effect PSA levels, thus it does not mask the ability of PSA tests to detect cancer.

Today, Saw Palmetto remains the leading selling of natural prostate remedies, out selling all other herbal products combined. While the mainstay of our company is providing manufacters with quality raw materials, we now manufacture our own line of retail products that we market via the internet. They are pure products with no additives and are kosher certifed.

Other popular uses of Saw Palmetto are in natural breast enlargement and natural breast enhancement pills or in natural viagra or impotency type products such as Red Rooster Pills, a type of herbal viagra.

Recently an ever increasing number of companies are marketing Saw Palmetto in the treatment of androgenetic alopecia. The mechanism of action is thought to be that by preventing or slowing down the breakdown of testosterone to Dihydrotestosterone, one can prevent or minimize premature male pattern baldness. The Saw Palmetto Harvesting Company now manufactures a saw palmetto shampoo designs to stop hair loss and promote hair regrowth. An excellent article about the causes of hair loss is written on this and can be accessed at http://www.sawpalmettouses.com/baldness.html