Recent content by Bertie

Well, there's the study discussed here: http://www.hairlosshelp.com/forums/mess ... TARTPAGE=1

Any topical solution whatsoever is systemically absorbed at least to some tiny degree. In the case of spironolactone, the amount absorbed is known to be low, and furthermore, once inside the body spironolactone is metabolized into weaker anti-androgens -- these two factors together are why people say that the...

The only problem I can see with Bryan's test is that you might be able to tell when you are eating the muffin with a finasteride tablet in it versus the muffins with no finasteride, which would make the test non-blind. Another possibility might be something like this -- Smash up a Proscar...

Spironolactone has very poor solubility in water, and water is the main ingredient in every shampoo I've ever heard of -- http://www.drugs.com/pro/spironolactone.html So I don't know how your spironolactone is even dissolving. Shampoo does sometimes contain things like alcohol (in which spironolactone is...

Regarding the fish oil and mercury -- this appears to be one area where regular commercially available supplements are both safe and have the nutrients advertised. That is, someone ran a test on various brands of fish oil capsules that you can buy in supermarkets and the like and found that...

Interesting on the Caffeine. Well, at least that's two ingredients in Revita that we know can be delivered in a shampoo.

On a somewhat lighter note, I recently discovered an unexpected benefit to the otherwise horrible Revita bottle design. On an international airline flight the other day, I accidentally left the Revita in my carry-on, and didn't realize the error until I had already checked my other bag. Had...

If I'm reading it right, this new Dutasteride paper used a "1 cm2 circular target area" (emphesis added), and I believe the Merck Finasteride trial used a 1 inch diameter circle. Doesn't that mean the difference in the two scalp areas would be 2.54^2 = 6.45? Or is there some other factor in...

I'm going to stick my nose in here to make one observation -- the Japan thing. This whole "post war Japanese have male pattern baldness while pre war Japanese did not" seems to be the first line argument for any one arguing for a major connection between diet and male pattern baldness. But not once have I seen any paper, any...

Roobios is another one of those teas with anti-oxidant and alleged hair loss fighting properties; there's at least some pilot type paper out there showing it to have an effect. Putting together the two concentrations given above and in my earlier post on ketoconazole with what DS Labs already...

A got a follow up email from DS Labs regarding a few of the ingredients in the shampoo -- -- The copper peptide in Revita is "Prezatide Copper Acetate." -- The concentration of the aforementioned Prezatide Copper Acetate is 1.5%. -- The concentration of Roobios in Revita is 2%. Those...

The various graphs showing hair count or weight following cessation of minoxidil treatment show a temporary "overshoot" beyond the long term baseline; thus even without resuming minoxidil, you might have gotten a little of that back. Now that you are back on Rogaine, you should get back most of...

Obviously, you cannot easily divide a round pill into 5 pie-shaped parts. What you do instead is first cut off a arc-shaped wedge, equal to 1/5 of the pill volume, then take the rest, cut it in half, and then cut each of those halves in half. But it is better to just do fourths...

I got a reply back from DS Labs that included the line, My other questions have apparently been "forwarded to the R&D Department." So there it is -- 1%

I've contacted DS Labs trying to pin down some information about the product, including the concentration of keto and the type and concentration of copper peptides. We'll see whether I get an answer.