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HOW IS SAW PALMETTO AVAILABLE: PRODUCTS AVAILABLE OVER THE COUNTER
Since SP cannot be patented, there are hundreds of vitamin companies that sell it. The majority will provide capsules of 160 mg of SP liposterolic extract. The percentage of the liposterolic extract, in most cases, will be listed as 85 to 95 percent.
Most brands of SP offered by local vitamin or retail stores, or mail order catalogs, contain 160 mg per capsule or tablet. Some will have 80 mg, requiring ingestion of two of these capsules, twice daily. Some contain 320 mg. Once a day dosing should be sufficient with these.
Since the active ingredients in SP are fat soluble, it is uncertain that teas containing extracts of this herb would provide enough of the liposterols and fatty acids to be effective. Therefore, for the time being, do not exclusively rely on the teas as a complete source for the active compounds.
A thorough search of local vitamin stores or pharmacies, will produce a wide range of dosages, along with SP in combination with other herbs. A recent investigation of some vitamin stores in the Los Angeles area revealed the following:
SP 80 mg per capsule
SP 160 mg
SP 320 mg
SP 350 mg
SP 160 mg with 10 mg of zinc
SP 100 mg with Pygeum 50 mg
SP 80 mg with raw prostate
Two tablets provide SP 160 mg, Pygeum 10 mg, pumpkin seed extract 500 mg, lycopene 500 meg, beta-sitosterol 25 mg, zinc 5 mg, lutein 500 meg, curcumin (turmeric extract) 50 mg
Two tablets provide SP 100 mg, Pygeum 100 mg and parsley 75 mg.
Four capsules provide SP 320 mg, Pygeum 100 mg of 13 percent total sterols
Saw palmetto complex of 80 mg, pumpkin seed oil extract, cucurbita pepo at 40 mg, Pygeum africanum at 10 mg with 13 percent total sterols, and Bear berry (Uva ursi) at 5 mg containing 10 percent arbutin.
This sampling shows there are quite a number of products on the market with countless combinations of SP along with different amounts of herbs, minerals, and nutrients. The most important factor to look for is the amount of SP present within the capsule since SP is the most well studied herb in the therapy of prostate gland enlargement. The second most important herb to consider is Pygeum. Also, make sure the bottle says "Guaranteed to contain 85 to 95 percent phytosterols."
One of the above products contains raw prostate. I don't see any reason why raw prostate would be important to ingest. The bottle doesn't even list where the raw prostate came from. Stay away from any product that includes raw prostate in its formulation.
The majority of the bottles contain 60 capsules, a month's supply if taking one capsule of 160 mg SP twice daily. As a rule, the cost of SP is less than the cost of pharmaceutical pills that treat prostate enlargement. But be careful about buying some of the combination products since they may not include enough SP.
Sometimes a particular product seems relatively inexpensive compared to another one, but, a closer examination reveals that two or more capsules must be ingested to equal one capsule of another product. For instance, one of the products listed above has 30 pills per bottle and two tablets provide 160 mg of SP. Therefore, at 4 pills a day, the bottle won't even last 8 days! This is also true of certain multivitamin products where I've sometimes read that one has to consume 4 tablets three times a day to get the amount of ingredients listed on the label.
I've seen another product that may mislead you in terms of dosage. On the front of the label, it says that the capsule contains 320 mg of SP. However, at the side of the label, it states that it actually only has 160 mg of SP mixed in an olive oil base of 160 mg, half the dosage listed on the front. Always read all the words on a label. If unsure, ask the pharmacist or the vitamin store manager.
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MAINTAINING A GOOD SEXUAL RELATIONSHIP
As superfluous as it may appear, it is nonetheless important to mention at the outset of this discussion the fundamental significance of a clean and attractive body to successful sexual interaction. Sex appeal is most certainly not confined to the marriage bed; it exists between the partners at all times, and should be carefully nurtured. By attractiveness, facial and bodily handsomeness is not implied; rather, attractiveness means scrupulous cleanliness of body and clothing, and taking the greatest advantage possible of all the physical endowments that nature has seen fit to bestow on each of us. Not everyone can be beautiful, but there is no excuse for anyone's not being attractively neat and clean at all times.
A man who is overweight, chronically unshaven and slovenly dressed, and whose breath reeks of tobacco or alcohol, can hardly expect to be considered a desirable bed partnereven after a session with shower, toothbrush, and razor later in the evening because his wife's memories of his earlier unattractiveness will simply detract from the excitement of the experience. Similarly, a woman who neglects to make up her face, sits around home in bathrobe and curlers, allows herself to become significantly overweight or underweight, permits even faint urine, vaginal, or underarm odors to emanate, or does not often shave her legs and underarms is setting the stage for a loss of respect, admiration, and even love; sexual failure cannot then be far behind.
Certainly before joining each other in bed, whether or not sexual activities are anticipated, each spouse should see to it that he has at least a clean body, fresh breath, and neat, attractive nightclothes. To do otherwise is to deny to the marriage bed one of the basic ingredients for a happy sex life.
The sense of smell is almost as important in sexual stimulation as the sense of sight is. There is a physiological relationship between the tissues of the nose and of the sex organs, as was described earlier. Conditioning factors also are frequently present in the relationship between the sense of smell and sexuality. During courtship, for example, the faint scent of a girl's perfume or of a man's after-shave lotion may become associated with their love and subsequent sexual arousal. After marriage, the same pleasant scent may well serve to reestablish the excitement that developed in the atmosphere of courtship. Conditioning quite naturally involves many sensory elements other than smell. Almost any occurrence during the period of courtship that forms an association with love and passion can later be woven advantageously into the fabric of the couple's sexual interaction.
The qualities of courtesy, kindness, and sensitivity to the needs and desires of others are fundamental to all successful human relationships; most particularly are they vital to sexual associations. Bearing in mind the differences in individual needs and desires, it is incumbent upon each person to discover what, precisely, offers the greatest pleasure to his partner in the sexual relationship. Genuine efforts to incorporate these discoveries into one's technique of sexual approach must be made before one may expect complete emotional fulfillment. For example, some partners prefer the conversation during sexual activity to be quite earthy, even to the point that the expressions used would be vulgar under other circumstances. Another couple might be shocked by such utterances, preferring to speak to one another softly in tender and loving words.
Pace, as well as style, is also a matter of individual taste. However, it is ordinarily wisest to proceed slowly and gently, with the goal in mind of bringing gratification to the partner rather than hurrying to satisfy one's own needs. One should not hesitate, furthermore, even to sacrifice one's own present fulfillment altogether if it means giving greater pleasure to the spouse; not only is it a generous and loving thing to do, but it will assuredly pay handsome dividends later. The best, and certainly the least stressful, way for each partner to determine the specific amatory desires of the other is to open wide the doors of candid communication. Neither partner is clairvoyant, and an inadvertently offensive gesture or clumsiness might impede the present response, and inhibit response in similar circumstances at a future time.
Variations in sexual approach and in the settings can add considerable spice to marriage. Too often sexual acts become ritualized, stale, and unimaginative, engaged in only to provide relief to physical urgency. Couples who wish to preserve delight and vigor in their sexual interaction will work as consistently on this aspect of their marriage as on any other. A husband who impulsively sweeps his wife into his arms in the middle of a happy afternoon and carries her off to the bedroom and makes wild love to her, or the couple who occasionally has sexual intercourse while taking a shower, or the wife who surprises her husband by appearing in his study wearing nothing but a smile and two cold, very dry Martinisthese couples are not likely to find sex dull, even after years of marriage. The playing of soft music, using mirrors to observe closely the intimacies of the sex act, perusing sensuous literature and art: all these can help keep boredom out of the bedroom.128 Men and women both want variety in their sexual lives; and if this ideal is reached within their marriage, there is considerably less likelihood that either husband or wife will seek it elsewhere. Imagination and willingness to experiment, coupled with an air of confidence and consideration, will serve most marriages very well.
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