There are certain factors of our health and organism that are not easily controlled, such as hormonal decompensations that can be experienced at any age and that can lead to hair loss, or urinary or sexual problems at a certain age due to growth. exaggerated prostate.

For these cases, although it is very difficult to avoid these factors, we can counteract the harmful side effects produced by them, and for this, Saw Palmetto is essential.

Saw Palmetto is obtained from the fruits of the Serenoa Repens plant, an indigenous plant of the North American Southeast and composed of a series of bioactive substances, such as fatty acids, flavonoids, phytosterols or polysaccharides.

It is in fact one of these fatty acids that it contains, oleic acid, which mainly produces the most beneficial effects of Saw Palmetto.

While other brands use the dry extract of Saw Palmetto almost completely eliminating its important contribution of fatty acids, in StarLabs Nutrition ™ we use an extract with 45% of fatty acids, which supposes a much greater effect of its beneficial properties.

Saw Palmetto works by inhibiting the 5-alpha-reductase enzyme in those people who have an overactive function of this enzyme and who, due to this, may suffer from metabolic and hormonal problems such as alopecia associated with dihydrotestosterone or hyperplasia benign prostatic.

In addition, it has been used for decades as an aphrodisiac and invigorating, and this is because it shares the same mechanism of action as drugs such as Sidenafil, thus enhancing the erection. Improves prostate health by inhibiting benign prostatic hyperplasia.