Take Your Pick Guys... Dysfunction or Good Hair?

Some of the side effects last forever until we replenish whatever it was they destroyed for us.. I found the reduced Omega that seemed to be caused by an anti-depressant I was given for sleep ..Does not make sense.. but it appeared to reduce my Omegas . and I craved fatty foods until I took enough. like 6 a day of flax and other oils, it soon made me dislike chips I cannot eat them now.. that craving would have gone on forever I assume.. and i did gain 40 and more pounds, so I could have become 300 pounds, and not even know why… I often wonder if this is taken into consideration when they call their patient obese after that?
Do they do a proper history on obese people and see what they have been taking for the past 10 years or so.. Some never come out of it.. How sad that is, and doctors tell them it is an addiction… so they can never feel it can be fixed.. and of course the Omegas also help the brain . so it is not OLD AGE.. I do not believe it exists.. they use it as an excuse to sell all sorts of pills we do not need.. Please explain to us all how the tetracyclics like Mitazapine work, so I understand how to keep the Omegas balanced.

The other thing is the Baldness.. I had heard many many years ago that males with hair on body and little on head, had a high testosterone level, and just needed estrogen to balance it.
The next idea for hair growth in both sexes, is taking the 3 lipotropic factors.. can it be ? I found my hair went from any grey to all brown, and it grows new ones all the time. I can feel the short new hair all over.( they are inositol, choline bitartrate, and dl-methionine). Is there a study somewhere about these ? How much would be the right amount? It seems simple, but may be much more complicated than I think. thank you for working so hard, and being so helpful. mary

I’m an Extend-Life customer and must look into the Total Balance range. But today I was interested to spot this subject of Propecia / finasteride.

I took it for about a year or so, on private prescription from my usual NHS doc here in Scotland. I didn’t see much change re. my hair (and have gone on to embrace your attitude, Dean, with neat short hair that is indeed one less thing to worry about!).

However, I stopped taking the pills as I realised that they were indeed having an effect on me in the ways described in the research above. On Googling the subject I was horrified to hear of the problems guys were having. That was 10 years ago. I have never fully recovered – the pills certainly damaged my sexual capacity. Thankfully I did stop in time, and did recover enough. But I still have difficulty in ejaculating and sometimes need to use Viagra – despite being fit and well in every other department.

I’m not cynical by nature – these side effects were, I’m sure, not known of at the time, and perhaps do not affect enough people. But there is no question whatsoever that these hair-loss prevention pills did, in my, as in many others, cause profoundly upsetting side effects.

Thanks for drawing this to the attention of your blog readers!

Hi Rachella

Thanks for your comments. We’ll be talking about baldness in the June issue of the Xtend-Your-Life newsletter. I’ll be sure to mention women’s hair-loss in the article.

Would you kindly also address women’s hair loss ?
Thank you.Rachella

Are you aware of similar side effects using Propecia?

I spend a significant amount of time researching product ingredients before use to make sure they are safe. I’ll never compromise my health (esp. sexual health) for hair. Most of the products I’ve tried are herbal and the most successful product is Hair Essentials. This product just works and without side effects for me.



As always, be sure to stop ALL supplements for a few weeks once a year to allow your kidneys and liver to clear out. I do this AFTER my yearly 2-3 week internal cleanse when I return to eating normal without any supplements.

31 yo guy here.. been on meds for a couple of years and have got zero side effects, and certainly no dysfunctions hehe.

for now i am choosing good hair!

Taking finasteride is not all about vanity however.  In my case I was running with a PSA near 25 and after taking finasteride (5mg) for 6 months or so it went down to about 9 where it has more or less stabilised.  I should mention that over the previous 12 years I had 3 biopsies all of them negative for prostate cancer.

Having said that, I would dearly love to not be taking finasteride for the reasons mentioned above. Other side effects are very low amounts of ejaculate (or none), and breast enlargement.  I certainly have experienced the first, and am suspicious that I might be affected by finasteride with the second issue.

I have now been taking finasteride for about a year but about three months ago started taking it every 2 days, and now every 3 days. To my knowledge psa has not started moving up again .. yet.   I have been taking male rejuvenation so will see what the next results are, even though I realise this is unlikely to affect psa.

The only positive is that the back of my head started growing rich black hair according to my wife, who gives me a regular no 1 haircut.