Docj077, question for you about black tea

[michael barry]

Doctor,

I read over the experiment with mice and the teas and soya.


I noted the researchers gave the mice tea on Mon., Wed., and Friday. Im assuming the black tea group only had black tea for drink.



Being the mice and men are both mammals, and I cannot find any experiments that detail DHT serum levels being unaffected by finasteride, do you think that these tea results would translate into human beings if they perhaps had a couple of glasses of black tea a day? Think black tea as a beverage would "help" finasteride reach a higher inhibition of alpha five?

 

[docj077]

You ask tough questions, Mr. Barry. I'm still trying to figure out what it is in black tea that seems to cause such an interesting decrease in DHT in murine models.

There is a difference in the chemical make-up of black tea vs. green tea or any other tea, but I still don't know why those scientists got the results that they did in that particular experiment.

I'm going to wait on concluding anything with regards to that study until some crazed Japanese hair loss researcher does the same experiment in humans and analyzes the concentrations of both serum DHT and scalp DHT.

Until then, I honestly do not know of a study that demonstrates a better outcome when an herbal product is used. Especially, when it is used in combination with soy phytochemicals.