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[fitguy]

when does it kick in and show its full effectiveness ?

[fitguy]

bump

[sp9]

14 days, dht suppression will be at it's max - 70% of one type of dht.

[fitguy]

when does should one notice thickening of the hair ,after 14 days only or longer than that ?

[sp9]

6 months to see visible results in the mirror if you are a good responder. You have to realize the growth cycle for a hair is a long time, each growth cycle, a responding hair follicle will produce a little thicker hair with a little longer growth cycle. This is opposite of balding where each growth cycle the hair is a little thinner and the growth cycle is a little shorter, until finally no hair is produced out of the follicale or it is so thin and the growth cycle so short you can't really see anything but scalp.

Balding takes years, seeing it come back or stabalize takes time to. Peak results are usually seen after 2 years.

[sp9]

hair cycle info :

http://www.watchtower.org/library/g/...article_01.htm

[sp9]

1994
Hair cycle and alopecia.

Courtois M, Loussouarn G, Hourseau C, Grollier JF.

L'Oreal Laboratories RAD, Clichy, France.

Male pattern alopecia is the outcome of profound modifications in the duration, succession and frequency of hair cycles. These phenomena were studied by phototrichogram in 10 male subjects, with or without alopecia, over a period of 15 years.

Almost 10,000 hair cycles were accounted for, yielding a detailed picture of the alopecia condition:

(1) A decrease in the duration of anagen for a certain proportion of hairs, a proportion which increases in size, the more advanced the alopecia; the result of this premature transformation from anagen to telogen is an increase in the rate of hair loss.

(2) A parallel decline in hair diameter.

(3) Longer latency periods between the fall of a hair and the onset of regrowth, leading to a reduction in the number of hairs present on the scalp surface.

The shorter finer hairs are absent more frequently and absent for longer periods and this contributes to the effect of alopecia.

[usamm]

Good information as always sp9!