Yup...i think people (and i include myself to, cause i'm not smarter than the others), still have the idea that snake oil products are selled in front of a Saloon in a some small town in Texas, by a moustache pimpy suite person...come on, we're in the hi tech/internet days..they changed thire places and customs, that's all!! I'm not saying that Sinere did exactly that, what i'm saying is that we'll must be very aware, and i'm not talking only about the new stuff, or limiting the suspections to just "chemicals" or "naturals", i'm saying to ALL, even the current existing FDA ones...let's never forget that both were previous prescripted to other diseases/causes, and just by acident they were found to be RELATIVLY sucessfull for male pattern baldness, cause it wouldn't be the 1st time that large companys, seel us a component/product, that in long term and further studys showed not to be as safe or efficacy as the original company studys said so...and don't tell me that bull sh*t of conspirancy theory, cause we all know that when interest and money are involved...EVERYTHING is corruptible and possible to achieve...don't believe me, read the studys and history of things like Aspartame, and the likes...and besides, if i recall even Upjohn in the 1st studys stated that SIGNIFICANT (what ever that is :innocent: ) regrowth was shown only in a small percentage of users, wich was also the case of Propecia/Finasteride...the proof of that is that, after some years, the forms, %/amounts, vehicles, combinations of diferent actives, etc...are still in order of the day, if those called FDA treatments were so highly sucessfull, those new combinations and formulas would never appeared in the number they are appearing now, i think it's simple to see, right?!... :whistle:
But the naturals, have always been the best suited "enemys" to report in what concern the so called "studys", why?!..1st because it's true that in many cases they are nothing but..."snake oil", but also because if someone presents a study in individual name, people assume that it can only be false, but if a study is presented by a BID company, people almos always assume it's true, most important, people are much more precise and waste more time in getting counter-proofs against naturals, than if the studys referes to a chemical presented by a big one...and if we look at some of those "oficial" studys, SOME of them don't present any more substantial cientific proof or methods, than the others people don't hesitate to descredit...socially/educationally predisposed, is what i think is the disease that we suffer :$
Oh well...let's be happy with whatever make us feel good...it can be minoxidil, it can be finasteride, encapsulated naturals, flutamide, nettles, vitamins...hair trasplants...cause in the end of the day (and at the present state of the art, before genetic engineering), the result is much closer than we would/want to expect...not to mention the ever so powerfull...PLACEBO!!! :hump: