I started proscar-finasteride for my hair loss - pure vanity at 33 years old, but received the benefit of a prostate the size of a walnut at age 68… like a person in their 20’s. Reduced chance of prostate cancer. And, it clears cholesterol… Cornary Calcium Scan of zero at my age…we discovered that a few years ago. So many benefits from one medication… but only if your body accepts it.
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Clearly, I don’t have long enough personal experience other than I thought my hair became thicker when I used Fin (used for only 3 months but maybe placebo) so If I were to guess I’d say that they do help in maintaining hair. However, we have a N=1 @Agetron (which he’s live right now) to tell us that it might have helped him but apparently not enough so he did the transplant. As I understand he’s been taking Fin for a long time yet he felt compelled to do the transplant. so that is that, maybe it helps but perhaps not a replacement for a transplant. What do i know.
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He would be completely bald without it, i.e. not even have enough hair for a transplant.
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I concur…would gave looked like Charles…aka @desertshores 
The finasteride and later oral minoxidil kept a healthy donor supply of my DHT resistant hairs in the back and sides. Those were abundant. Took 1260… didn’t make a dent in my supply. Should I ever want to do more.
I need to continue use of finasteride and minoxidil to keep the transplanted DHT resistant hairs healthy for my remaining years… say 120 years… expected. 
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I’d consistently have oral side effects with rapamycin until I got a dental issue sorted out then I went a long time without any mouth sores.
Back on the weekly rapamycin doses for the time being.
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Has anyone tried methylene blue as reported here recently?
Deane,
There are several topics on methylene blue. Search for methylene blue in all topics and you’ll find them. Here is the first one that usually shows up in the search list: Is methylene blue useful?
In case you specifically wanted a topic about methylene blue and hair this may help: Dyeing to Grow: Methylene Blue Rejuvenates Hair Stem Cells and Halts Weight-Loss Drug Shedding
Jay
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Here are my FUE pics update at exactly 5 months post transplants.
Looks great… it’s growing.
Real changes are suppose to be from 6 months to 9 months. The waiting is the hardest part.
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Its one way of improving the mitochondria. You move them from one place to another.
Getting them to improve in situ is a lot harder, but from a broader systemic basis more useful.
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I had high hopes for Tsuji’s follicle cloning, research in 2012, numerous partnerships then ultimate failure. And here we are, still an the neanderthal stage of regeneration for about everything biological.
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Here we are at the 7 month mark - of my post FUE transplant. See pics below.
Looking pretty good… I am still seeing new hairs sprouting like beard stubble.
I have 5 more months of growth until the full results are in… but definitely, better.
I can already see how much the 1,600 hairs have helped.
I might be almost 69 years… but passing for early 50’s. And, that’s what my Inflammation Glycans and Methylation DNA says too!
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Funny but true. My urologist told me about this. It definitely works.
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You have to try it to believe it… after about a week… you go from watery drops to ropey loads. Been on it 5 years… dose 3 capsules in my supplements.
Cheap too… get a bottle on Amazon, lasts months.
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You mentioned that you’ve been taking finasteride daily since you were young. Theoretically, this medication should protect your hair from the effects of hair loss, shouldn’t it?
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Yes, I was losing significant hair… since my early years… it was about then that proscar… or generic finasteride was noted to help retain one’s hair. Problem was it might help prevent prostate cancer… or if you get it… speed the disease. Back then nobody knew. Now we know… it’s protective from cancer. It has worked… but always there are gaps…especially 3 decades later.
So its done a lot… very thick except on the front… had great donor hair transplant, but even so, a hairline can slowly unravel. The FUE… takes it back to the early thickness. Should last til I am 90 years plus.
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I wonder what the content is in the 3 capsules. How many mg?
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You also have to consider that once hair is gone, it might never come back or only after years/decades of medication use. The closer it is to the hairline or crown, the less likely it is to grow back.
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There you go. Brand and amount per pill.
It must be sunflower lecithin. Not soybean… fyi.
Shoot your shot. Hahaha
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I was going to start a thread here about ropey loads, male and female sexual functions, orgasms etc.
But pressed enter by mistake prematurely as I was thinking of what to write, and well, decided to delete the thread.
I’ve tried the various supplement combo’s such as lecithin, zinc, pygeum, and other stuff.
Zinc worked best for me but didn’t make me shoot ropey loads. More like thick white loads.
I used to have the ropey loads when I was younger, and feel they help with overall well being.
It appears women don’t like to have various issues such as being dry etc.
So sexual function is important, and it’s cool some people here have had success with various protocols.
If you or anyone else has some answers on how to improve this, please share.
The best combo I’ve tried is probably not sustainable and deals with things like hitting the pituitary and hypothalamus fairly hard with some products: thyroid, oxytocin, kisspeptin, gonadorelin, bremelanotide etc.
Also been wondering if it’s an issue that might need surgery. My hormones seem to be in a good range.
Maybe it’s a brain area that is damaged or needs to be modified in some way. I don’t know.
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TBH - in general sperm thickness and quanity can decrease with aging.
Some people have no fluids at orgasm or very little and that is watery. Lecithin can get you back to a thicker, bigger load again. 
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