Comparitive Effectiveness and Finasteride Vs Serenoa Repens in Male Androgenetic Alopecia: A Two-Year Study
October 2012
in “International Journal of Immunopathology and Pharmacology”
TLDR Finasteride works better than Serenoa repens for male hair loss.
This study compared the effectiveness of finasteride and Serenoa repens in treating male androgenetic alopecia (AGA) over a two-year period. The results showed that both treatments were effective in the majority of patients, but finasteride was more effective in improving AGA in 66% of patients with initial classification of AGA in levels II and III. The study concluded that Serenoa repens could lead to an improvement of androgenetic alopecia, while finasteride confirmed its efficacy.
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