it also is fun getting answers, putting head together, and telling new people how to fix their hair. Many come on here clueless, or don't even know about this site. I did not even know about this site. I visited it years ago, but all I read were posts from guys moaning about how "we need access to dutasteride!", and not having any solutions. That was in 2002. I just came back again because this sight kept coming up in my google searches while I was trying to learn about male pattern baldness. I thought minoxidil and finasteride were the only good treatments and the rest were scams because only these two are FDA approved. I learned a lot since then. It is sad how many balding 20 year olds don't know about this stuff, and at best are just prescribed full price propecia and full price rogaine when they get the nerve to ask their doctors. hair transplant clinics just want to tell people enough so men will keep what they have, not regrow it all. and most new treatments are just patented and sold, rather than going threw expensive phaseIII fda trials. Even dutasteride never went through the trials. that should tell people something about why patents are prefered to publishing in journals.