Magnetic Helmet for Hair Loss?

Hello doc!
Firstly, thank you for a good blog, and what can I say about the NHI site except, outstanding. As a webdesigner myself I really know what Im talking about.

Now, over to my question. I’ve seen a new product online, it’s a “helmet” that attacks the hair roots with some kind of magnetic fields? Anyway, this product feel smells “scam” from far..

1. Do you know about this product?
2. Could Saw-palmetto (or what the heck it’s called) be used in treating of hairloss?
3. What about the “new study” about coffein and hairloss, know anything about it?
4. I guess I’m a northwood 2, what is the best product for me to start with?
5. When I was visiting Asia recently I saw a rogaine-copy with 5% Minoxidil for around $3 per bottle. This product was sold in a pharmacy. I can say that $3 is “much money” in this country and the production of this rogaine-clone is, as far as I understand, produced within this “Don’t-give-a-damn-about-us-law” – country.

Thank you! I wish you many healthy years.

Thanks for your kind words about the NHI site.

1. See BX3 for the magnetic helmet. My nose works like yours. I was thinking that maybe I could make a better living with a telepathic hat, one that takes the good hair from people close to you and ‘tele-transports’ them to the area where hair is in poor supply in the person wearing the hat. I might make a designer version so that it would support a good price for the fashion conscious; perhaps I would call it the TeleHat™. What do you think? Ha!
2. I do not believe that Saw Palmetto is predictable for hair loss as a DHT blocker. If it is a DHT blocker, it really may either underdose you (no benefits to hair), or overdose you (killing your sex drive).
3. Coffein is just another product out there that does not have any proof of value. Buyer beware.
4. As a NW2, you are best getting a diagnosis before you start treating your hair loss. Propecia is appropriate if your are a male and have miniaturization present.
5. Some of these products are ridiculous, and I can see no scientific way that these could be of any predictable benefit for hair regrowth. Cloned products for Rogaine, Minoxidil, or Propecia are available outside the United States and they may be what they are claiming to be, but there’s always the chance that they are not. I would not be able to tell you for sure. Again, the mandate is Buyer Beware!