PROSTATE ENLARGEMENT - Saw Palmetto Plus

QUESTION: Dr. Hansen, I just received your Saw Palmetto Plus product. I hope to reduce my enlarged prostate with this product. I understand that 320 mg/daily of Saw Palmetto is the recommended dosage to reduce the prostate. This would require taking two caplets daily. My questions centers on whether it is neccessary to take two tablets of your product daily in order to get your recommended dosage of the other herbs in your formala. I just learned that your product is priced at roughly $28 to $33 for a month's supply - rather costly for me. Would it still be beneficial to take only one caplet of Saw Palmetto Plus daily supplemented by a second generic 160 mg of Saw Palmetto in order to make your product be more affordable for me.

ANSWER: Dear Richard,

The ingredients in our Saw Palmetto Plus have been shown to reduce benign prostate enlargement in double blind clinical trials. In order to get the amounts used in the clinical trials, you need to take 160mg twice daily of standardized (85-95% fatty acids) Saw Palmetto extract, which is the amount in each capsule of our Saw Palmetto Plus product. This amount is equivalent to consuming 20,000 mg of the unprocessed berrries daily. The web price is only $19.95 for a months supply (60 capsules). I believe that this is the highest quality Saw Palmetto product available on the market for the price. If you take a cheaper product you may be wasting your money, because it may not contain the active ingredients that make it work.

Best in health,
Dr. Hansen