(24-04-2013, 12:30 PM)Kuzzy Wrote: Well apart from the hair I don't think I have any other symptoms of high dht. But I will try and find another sp or I'll just wait till I run out of my current supply of PM and then try something else. I thing I have noticed is that my butt and thighs seem to be getting somewhat bigger 
Monika mentioned that low thyroid can cause lack of breast growth... What she DIDN'T mention, but is applicable, is that low thyroid can ALSO cause body hair distribution... changes.
What are your eyebrows like? If you have excessive body hair but are missing the outer third to two thirds of your eyebrow AND aren't getting breast growth no matter what you try.... You could have low thyroid.
As for SP... I agree. Get a standardized extract. Whole fruit just doesn't work very well. I use 3x 320mg of standardized, or 960mg spaced evenly through the day. I find that between this, chinese skullcap, and spearmint, as well as the anti-androgenic properties of estrogenic compounds, my T levels are much more manageable.
Saw palmetto targets DHT as mentioned... but by preventing T from being made into DHT your free and total T will go up, which you don't really want either, which is what chinese skullcap is for, it blocks the production of T from androsteniodone. Spearmint prevents any extra that doesn't get killed off by the other two from binding to T receptors by clogging them up with an inert compound.
Anyhoo... You can read my program thread for more on that.
I have found I have low thyroid as well and I'm taking a thyroid glandular that's doing wonders for it. Again, I believe I've made mention of it somewhere in my program thread.