Prostate hypertrophy/hyperplasia

Elderly Elderly males, or men in general, treated with androgens may be at an increased risk of developing prostatic hypertrophy, prostatic carcinoma, and prostatic hyperplasia. 

O The lower urinary tract symptoms and signs of benign prostatic hyperplasia are due to static, dynamic, or detrusor factors. The static factor refers to anatomic obstruction of the bladder neck caused by an enlarged prostate gland. The dynamic factor refers to excessive stimulation of a-adrenergic receptors in the smooth muscle of the prostate, urethra, and bladder neck. The detrusor factor refers to irritability of hypertrophied detrusor muscle as a result of long-standing bladder outlet obstruction. 

Norepinephrine NE transporter Human cDNA Depression, Alzheimer s disease, epilepsy, anxiety, attention deficit hyperactivity, angina, asthma, cardiac arrhythmia, cardiac hypertrophy, congestive heart failure, myocardial ischemia, hypertension, artherosclerosis, narcolepsy, orthostatic hypotension, prostatic hyperplasia, rhinitis, diabetes, diarrhea, glaucoma, impotence, obesity, opiate withdrawal pain, Raynaud s disease, preterm labor pain Modulation of norepinephrine concentration in the neuronal synaptic clefts, neuroprotection... 

In the case of saw palmetto, the standardized extract may have a greater activity in conditions such as benign prostatic hyperplasia/hypertrophy (BPH), cystic acne, male pattern baldness, and female hirsutism. At the same time, this type of product has little or no activity as an immune potentiator, adaptogen, lung tonic, or reproductive amphoteric. 

A herbal treatment for prostate problems called benign prostatic hyperplasia or hypertrophy [BPH] consists of the use of an extract derived from the oil of saw palmetto berries. The saw, or sawtooth, palmetto grows in the West Indies and along the Atlantic Coast of North America from Hoiida to North Carolina. Its use is an old Indian remedy, picked up by the early settlers.)... 

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