Wow! I've just been doing a quick bit of research on saw palmetto in relation to the Korean study. After reading the summary a couple of times, putting the results into the table below and discovering that our beloved pumpkin seed oil performed BETTER than saw palmetto, I was extra excited when realising the quantities used in the study were so small!

The results put two and two together as to why some of our customers who have tried saw palmetto with little result and had such great results so quickly after talking to us and taking pumpkin seed oil. I'll explain; the quantities taken in the study were 320mg per day of either pumpkin seed oil or/and saw palmetto oil. This is less than 1ml (0.32ml to be exact). 320mg per day is the average recommended dosage of saw palmetto oil used in studies and when buying capsules. At that rate you would have to take the saw palmetto for 12 months to be able to notice if it was working or not with regard to the 'Maximal urinary flow rate' measurement. (The 'International prostate score' and 'Quality of life' probably need to be measure by a specialist so I'm assuming these results would generally be unknown.) I don't know how long our customers who said they had tried saw palmetto were taking it for - possibly not 12 months. When asked we recommend taking anywhere from 1 teaspoon (5ml) to 2 dessert or tablespoons (30 - 40ml) depending on current eating habits and severity of complaint.... 1 teaspoon is just over 15 times the amount taken in the study, 30mls is over 93 times the same amount taken in the study! No wonder our customers get great results from pumpkin seed oil.

To take it a step further for this economic day and age I've compared pricing too...the results will blow you away. You can pay online anywhere from the equivalent of 56c - $1 a day for various size containers (20, 30, 60 capsules etc) for the same quantities used in the study (0.32ml) of saw palmetto oil. You can buy a 500ml bottle of Australian pumpkin seed oil for $42.70 which is an equivalent of 1,562 days at 0.32mg per day for just 2.7c per day - ridiculous isn't it ;)  Seeing it wouldn't be easy to measure out of the bottle that amount and you want to take the oil while its still fresh (1 bottle would last you 4.3 years), it would be better to work it the other way and you'll find that for the same 56c per day, 1 x 500ml bottle would last you 76 days and you would be taking 6.5mls or 20 times the daily amount used in the study or as recommended for saw palmetto.

From the great results some of our customers have received and the results of this study, if you or anyone you know has the same problem, wouldn't you want to know about pumpkin seed oil and be able to give it a go?