Recent content by tysonscorner

Why not use it everyday? The stated directions of using every 3 to 4 days is for anti-drandruff purposes, not fighting male pattern baldness. As an anti-androgen, its pretty weak, so why not use it everyday? I'm guessing its efficacy is greater at 7x per week vs 3x. I use a regular shampoo initially to get...

There will likely never be a consensus as most people aren't using this as a stand-alone treatment. Any positive response in hair growth would likely be attributed to other parts of the regimen. If the PGD2/PGD2 theory is accurate, based on what I have read, there is a decent chance taking...

Saw Palmetto would be a good sub for finasteride. It worked well when I was young.

That's interesting. The most compelling evidence would be from someone with asthmatic symptoms as the DP2 receptor, the ultimate target, is known to be specifically involved. Not sure about rashes, but worth looking into. - - - Updated - - - What I tried to post yesterday about PGE2/PGD2...

I've read that that some people use the niacin flush to alleviate allergies. They attribute the improvement to the system "flushing" out histamine, but it looks like that is not really how it works. If it works at all, it seems they developing a tolerance to the flush by reduced PGD2 in response...

Well, this is what has been pass around on the internet. I've been trying to verify this, and have found nothing to support that claim. Now, I'm pretty sure the niacin flush, via an increase PGD2, does interact with the DP2 receptor. It seems the confusion is due the fact that the DP2 receptor...

Do we know for sure that niacin flushes out existing PGD2 and not creates it? This seems to support the idea new PGD2 is create via niacin, so I'm not certain that using niacin and getting the flush will make less PGD2 available to the DP2 receptor. From what I can tell, niacin seems neutral so...