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Suggest Alternative Medicine For Androfol-M & Dotamax

hi i recently had hair transplant done and my doctor advised me to have two tablets ( Androfol-M & Dotamax ) but unfortunately both of them are not available in Australia can you please tell me which other medicines can i have in there place . i asked my doctor the same thing he said have any medicine that have SAW PALMETTO AND BIOTIN in it . thank you
Tue, 5 Jul 2016
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Saw palmetto, vitamins, herbs are not effective on baldness. Increased vitamins when you have enough already are exactly as effective as filling a car gas tank to make it run faster except there isn't explosions.
Androfol is just some vitamins and saw palmetto. In the US it is not even reliably made (studies of the totally unregulated supplements have always shown they are not reliably made and only a small perhaps by chance minority of them have what they are supposed to have). The shelf life is also not evaluated. Yeast cake is reliably made, the starting material for general vitamin pills and inexpensive. Rogaine, minoxidil--which is working for me right now, and male hormone blockers (finasteride) are reliable baldness medicines that have slight and variable success. Rogaine/minoxidil ONLY works on thinning on the crown and zero for receeding hairline and not great if the baldness is really bald. Fiansteride works on male pattern baldness by making one less male. If it really works, there are other issues:
loss of male function, growth of breasts
http://www.yyyyyy.com/yyyyyy/2/drug-1548-167/yyyyyyyyyy-oral/fyyyyyyyyyy-oral/details#yyyyyyyyyy
If you get hair back with it you not only attract the ladies, you become one!
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Suggest Alternative Medicine For Androfol-M & Dotamax

Saw palmetto, vitamins, herbs are not effective on baldness. Increased vitamins when you have enough already are exactly as effective as filling a car gas tank to make it run faster except there isn t explosions. Androfol is just some vitamins and saw palmetto. In the US it is not even reliably made (studies of the totally unregulated supplements have always shown they are not reliably made and only a small perhaps by chance minority of them have what they are supposed to have). The shelf life is also not evaluated. Yeast cake is reliably made, the starting material for general vitamin pills and inexpensive. Rogaine, minoxidil--which is working for me right now, and male hormone blockers (finasteride) are reliable baldness medicines that have slight and variable success. Rogaine/minoxidil ONLY works on thinning on the crown and zero for receeding hairline and not great if the baldness is really bald. Fiansteride works on male pattern baldness by making one less male. If it really works, there are other issues: loss of male function, growth of breasts http://www.yyyyyy.com/yyyyyy/2/drug-1548-167/yyyyyyyyyy-oral/fyyyyyyyyyy-oral/details#yyyyyyyyyy If you get hair back with it you not only attract the ladies, you become one!