Finasteride From a Tuber?

[wookster]

Does anyone know the name of this rainforest plant/tuber that finasteride was derived from?

http://www.baldingblog.com/2006/01/page/8/

To the best of my memory, the drug finasteride was derived by work done in primitives who ate a tuber that was unique to the rain forest and contained this drug. I am not familiar with other foods that contain it. The high incidence of hermaphrodites in the population is what clued explorers into the uniqueness of the foods these people ate, mainly because the food was eaten by pregnant women, blocking the effects of DHT which is required to differentiate the sex of the offspring. If you find hermaphrodites somewhere eating large amounts of some unique food, that might be a good clue.

 

[WorldofWarcraft]

They should package that sh*t into a scrumsious salad for us baldies to eat for lunch everyday.

 

[michael barry]

Wook,
If we knew the name of that tuber, perhaps we could just buy the extract from it more cheaply than shelling out fifty bucks a month for finasteride?

Combine it with green tea extract, and we'd have somethin' strong.........................


Neat stuff Wookie, although I dont like William Rassman's blog (he always steers people towards transplantation as much as reasonably possible-----Im more of a fight it with treatments if you catch it early kinda guy).

 

[wookster]

Im more of a fight it with treatments if you catch it early kinda guy).

Sounds like good advice

 

[WorldofWarcraft]

Wook,
If we knew the name of that tuber, perhaps we could just buy the extract from it more cheaply than shelling out fifty bucks a month for finasteride?

Combine it with green tea extract, and we'd have somethin' strong.........................


Neat stuff Wookie, although I dont like William Rassman's blog (he always steers people towards transplantation as much as reasonably possible-----Im more of a fight it with treatments if you catch it early kinda guy).

You pay 50 bucks a month for your finastride?