I know I've read this on here somewhere before, but sometimes looking for a past thread is like looking for a needle in a haystack! Right now I'm taking the following amounts daily:
saw palmetto 1800mg
fennel 1440mg
fennugreek 1830mg
wild yam 1215mg
vites 1600mg
I'm on my third week and having good results, I just want to re-evaluate my doses and figure out if I need to alter anything. Can anyone post again what the daily general doses are for these herbs? I do split these daily doses up between 3 different times except for the vitex which I only take in 2 daily increments.
Thanks :-)
Your SP looks a bit high to me and I think a source of essential fatty acids like borage oil would do you well (EPO is being warned against), this is practically a must in a routine.
I think you are using way too many phytoestrogens, I would really drop one of the three. If you take that high dosages you may see signs of growth soon but chances are you will stall soon as well and will have to up them more to compensate. Since you are pretty much at your phytoestrogen limit already I wouldn't recommend that. Rather take lower dosages now and up them a bit later, if you keep them like this you will have to take a complete break when you stall if you don't want to totally overload your body.
You could probably lower your SP as well, chances are you don't need as much of that either.
Obviously you can see how you do and stick to this. It is definitely encouraging that you are seeing signs of growth already, so well done!
I'm confused about the SP comment because from what I read in the newbe thread that was bumped it's saying up to 4860 - 5400mg per day would be the max, but I'm taking 1800mg. Am I misunderstanding what my dose should be? I was wondering though if taking both fennel and fennugreek was too much, would you suggest dropping maybe the fennel? It was mentioned to add in an oil, so I will do that as well, maybe flaxseed. Gosh, as we speak I'm having growing pains, they must know we're talking about them, lol. I sure do appreciate the advice of everyone here! :-)