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Does Pine Pollen have side effects? Stay tuned in this video to find out.
Hey, I'm Logan Christopher from Lost Empire Herbs and I want to talk about side effects for pine pollen. You know, any powerful substance that you're working with, there is the chance for side effects.
Now because this is a natural herb, side effects tend to be significantly less than what you see with say, pharmaceutical drugs of any type. But that doesn't mean that side effects and the possibility of them can't exist.
So first off, we're talking about pine pollen and some people do have allergies to this as pollen. Now, just because you have seasonal allergies doesn't mean you're going to necessarily have any problems with this. Most people are going to be allergic to, one it can just be the mold that often goes along with the pollens. By the way, our pine pollen is steam sterilize, whereas most of it out there, every other company is radiated from what we gather.
So just something to know about that. But in ours, it's steamed distilled to make sure
that this mold is not a problem, but you're getting allergies out there and there. It can be from the mold. It can be from all kinds of other plants and trees that are releasing polling into the air.
So just because you have that doesn't mean you're necessarily going to be allergic to pine pollen. So we do recommend you give this a shot. Take a small dose, to begin with. If you have allergic reactions, you know, this isn't like an anaphylactic shock.
I've heard no cases of anyone having very serious side effects from this, but it's going to be just like watery eyes, itchy throat, a runny nose, a rashy type of appearance. That kind of thing could possibly happen if that is the case for you, that's too bad. Pine pollen is not going to be the herb for you. However, some people, even if they have allergies with the powder, have been able to take the tincture without those because it is an alcohol extract. You're leaving the pollen itself behind.
Some people have been able to have good effects from that. Some people, actually, I'll just say this myself... the pine pollen tincture, because I do so much to support my testosterone. I actually feel like the pine pollen tincture, which is more directly androgen boosting, is a bit too strong for me.
I take that and well my libido can go through the roof to the point where it's distracting and not necessarily something I want all the time. So there can be like an excessive amount of that. Although pine pollen is mostly used by guys, it can work well for women as well.
Now to tell the story of my wife. I wanted her to experiment with pine pollen because it can work really great for women as well, especially if they know they have low testosterone. So I told her, and this is what we recommend when women are trying this to take one to two drops per day, not dropper-fulls.. drops. My wife did not hear that. So she's taking a whole squirt of pine pollen and she ends up getting acne on her shoulders because of it, which is kind of a sign of a little excessive testosterone, right? This is what we see with guys that go through puberty, often see acne, not just on the face but elsewhere in the body.
So I thought that was an interesting side effect. So that's another thing that is, if you're taking too much, it can be too strong and kind of drive those androgens a bit excessive and you may see acne in weird places. So that is a possibility.
One of the big effects that people take pine pollen for is for its sexual benefits. So related to testosterone support specifically, we noticed with pine pollen, a lot of guys will have more morning wood or stronger morning wood.
So much so that we talk about having a morning would guarantee. Nothing works for everyone. But it works for a lot of guys and a few people we've seen reviews and customer comments coming in and saying that actually has the opposite effect for them.
So I don't have any percentage, but a very small minority of guys seem to have less erectile ability when taking pine pollen. Uh, what that's about? Probably taking too much for them or it's not the right herbs.
A lot of herbs work on a bell-shaped curve sort of response, right? So we often think.. Oh, if some is good, more is better. Not always the case. But with pine pollen, I mean we do recommend up to a megadose and a dose is very variable but sometimes more is less. So you're taking for a certain effect.
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