Free Resources

Topical Finasteride Calculator

Problem

Hair growth companies charge premiums for topical finasteride and dutasteride, when these can be made at home by crushing pills and/or diluting previously purchased topicals.

Solution

We made a calculator to help you customize to any dilution of your choosing. It’s the perfect tool to titrate doses and minimize your risk of side effects.

Benefits

• Gain full control over your drug exposure, so you can mitigate side effects

• Cut out the pharmacy and lower your treatment costs from $70+ to $7 per month

• Discover your “upper tolerable dose”, so can maximize your hair gains

Interactive Guide: What Causes Hair Loss?

Problem

Forums, YouTube channels, and businesses involved in the hair loss industry tell consumers different causes of hair loss to benefit their product sales, not patients.

Solution

We built a feature that builds the strongest cases for and against hair loss.

Benefits

• Uncover the steelman arguments “for” and “against” popular hair loss theories

• Know which theories to prioritize, so you can build an effective treatment plan

• Constantly updated based on reader feedback + new studies

Free Guide: Standardized Scalp Massages

Problem

A 2012 study suggested that scalp massages regrew hair for 100% of people, but the findings were published in a low-quality journal and could not be trusted.

Solution

We conducted a cross-sectional survey study of participants adhering to standardized scalp massages for 1-36 months, then published those results in a higher-quality journal and made the materials free to access so people could have better expectations of this intervention.

Benefits

• Get step-by-step video + PDF instructions for scalp massaging

• Follow along with every session, so you never wonder what to do next

• Know the real data on this experimental therapy (it’s not a substitute for drugs)

• Gain advice from people who ran the study, not the internet, so you can maximize your chances for results

7-Day Hair Loss Email Course

Problem

People want general hair loss information and step-by-step guides for treatment, but they also don’t want to do tons of reading every day.

Solution

We built a 7-day email course that drip feeds you hair loss advice – so you can cut through the marketing hype and start following treatments that work.

Benefits

• Consumer hair loss education, broken up into daily digestible segments

• Avoid common hair loss mistakes made by most hair loss sufferers

• Discover which treatments work, their risks, and their opportunity costs

• Know evidence quality, so you can navigate natural vs. conventional treatments

Ingredients Database

Problem

Everyday, consumers are exposed via advertisements to a new “breakthrough” hair growth ingredient – with no ability to discern if this ingredient has high-quality data supporting its use for your kind of hair loss.

Solution

We built an ingredients database that summarizes all major pharmaceuticals, extracts, nutrients, vitamins, trace elements, carrier agents, and more popularized in the hair loss community. We ranked these interventions based on evidence quality. Prioritize the ones that have a score of 50 or greater. It’s all free.

Benefits

• Understand evidence quality, so you can stop buying poorly supported products

Interactive Guide: Hair Loss Disorders

Problem

Consumers lack a fundamental understanding of how to differentiate hair loss types, and how similar many hair loss types can look, especially at the earliest of stages. This delays diagnoses, causes consumers to pursue treatments that don’t fit their specific needs, and worsens long-term outcomes.

Solution

We built an interactive chart revealing how hair loss progresses across genders, stages, and the four major hair loss types – from a macro- and micro- level.

Benefits

• Discover why misdiagnoses are so common, especially with early-stage hair loss

• Know the ins and outs of hair loss – and become your own patient advocate

• Uncover your biggest treatment targets, so you never waste time, money, or hair

• Deep-dive into: androgenic alopecia, telogen effluvium, scarring alopecias,
 and alopecia areata

Treatment Guides

Problem

Doctors cannot (or do not have time) to educate their patients on all the ins and outs of hair loss treatments. When consumers turn to online resources, they face a sea of conflicting information – with everyone trying to sell their own pills, potions, and other physical hair growth products.

Solution

We built out complete guides for the most popular hair loss treatments: oral minoxidil, topical minoxidil, oral finasteride, topical finasteride, oral dutasteride, topical dutasteride, low-level laser therapy, ketoconazole, microneedling, platelet-rich plasma therapy, natural treatments, and more.

Benefits

• Cut out the bias, and gain free access to best-in-class hair loss information

• Studies updated monthly, so you’re always up-to-date

• Dynamic overviews showcase the most important, actionable information

Product Lab Tests: Purity & Potency

Problem

Companies in the hair loss industry are poorly regulated, which means they can often sell you dirt in a bottle and tell you that bottle contains ingredients it actually doesn’t have.

Solution

We lab test consumer products based on membership votes, and share the results so you know what you’re buying. Many of these reports we release entirely for free.

Benefits

• Discover which products cannot meet their labeling claims, and save thousands.

• Full-fledged investigations into product 
claims vs. reality.

• Updated monthly, based on votes from our community

• You pick what we buy + lab test next

Evidence Quality Masterclass

Problem

In the hair loss industry, companies have discovered how to cheat their clinical trials to virtually guarantee good results for any pill, supplement, topical, shampoo, or device they’re selling. They do this by exploiting consumers’ misunderstanding of evidence quality.

Solution

Our masterclass exposes these companies and their studies. We also teach a framework to protect you from these unethical practices.

Benefits

• Gain expertise and become your own patient advocate

• 15+ real-world examples of biased studies, and from companies you’ve heard of

• Discover why evidence quality is so important when selecting treatments

• Download as a video, article, and PDF, so you can learn however you’d like

Hair Loss DNA Scanner

Problem

Gene testing companies take advantage of consumers’ lacking knowledge of evidence quality to build hair loss treatments based on DNA profiles. These cost thousands of dollars, are supported by low-quality and often irrelevant data, and are absent any validation.

Solution

We built similar genetic testing software, so you can upload your raw genetic data and get the same results — with real disclaimers on evidence quality — 100% for free.

Benefits

• Save $400+ on gene testing services. We built and provide this service for free

• Save $1,200 booking a doctor to interpret results. We do this for you, for free

• Know the “real” evidence on DNA and hair treatments (it’s limited)

• Constantly updated, so you can run your results every time we push an update

Genetic Articles

• NR3C1: Can This Gene Predict Responsiveness to Glucocorticoids?
• COL1A1: Can This Gene Predict Regrowth From Collagen Supplements?
• CRABP2: Can This Gene Predict Regrowth From Retinoids?
• BTD: Can This Gene Predict Regrowth From Biotin?
• CYP19A1: Can This Gene Predict Regrowth From Hormone Therapy?
• ACE: Can This Gene Predict Regrowth From Blood Flow Boosters?
• PGTFR: Can This Gene Predict Regrowth From PGF2a Analogs?
• PTGES2: Can This Gene Predict Regrowth from Minoxidil?
• IGF1R: Can This Gene Predict Regrowth From IGF-1?
• SRD5A1 & 2: Can These Genes Predict Regrowth From DHT Reducers?
• SULT1A1: Can This Gene Predict Hair Regrowth From Minoxidil?
• GPR44: Can This Gene Predict Hair Regrowth From PGD2 Inhibitors?

Up-To-Date Literature Reviews

Problem

Most people get their hair loss news from forums, YouTube, or hair care brands. These resources skew their study interpretations based on profit motives – constantly changing their interpretation of “safe” and “effective” depending on what they’re selling you. The end-result: you never know the real data supporting hair loss treatments.

Solution

We hired a team of PhD’s to run systematic literature reviews on major hair loss treatments. We summarize this data in our treatment overviews, and we update the tables monthly with new studies. It’s all free.

Benefits

• Dynamic tables, built in a consumer-friendly format.

• Update monthly, so your treatment education always stays up-to-date.

• Understand evidence quality, so you can stop buying poorly supported products.

AI Study Analyzer

Problem

Consumers don’t know how to properly analyze studies about hair loss, so they often build regrowth regimens based on poorly supported treatments that don’t apply to their hair loss case.

Solution

We built & trained an AI study analyzer and integrated it with our masterclass on evidence quality — so you can get instant facts about any hair loss study & make better treatment choices.

Benefits

• Instant analysis for any hair loss study

• Save + share your results with a customizable URL

• Instantly know which studies have merit, and which don’t

• Make better treatment decisions

• Master your understanding of evidence quality in the hair loss industry

Peer-Reviewed Studies, 100% Accessible

Problem

Consumers want to learn about the science behind hair loss and treatments, but many studies are behind paywalls, and authors never break down their studies for lay people with simple, actionable advice

Solution

We publish peer-reviewed studies ranging from cross-sectional surveys to systematic literature reviews on treatments. We make them 100% free to access, and we release them alongside videos + articles explaining their findings and key takeaways.

Benefits

• Deep-dives into topical finasteride, topical dutasteride, mesotherapy, microneedling, and more – so you’re always up-to-date

• Simple, actionable recommendations based on the latest evidence

• Become your own patient advocate

Free Articles

Problem

Many websites offer “free articles” that slant information to sell their own product lines, or to cash in on affiliate checks. This biases your access to good hair loss information.

Solution

We write hundreds of free articles, written and reviewed by real hair loss researchers. We don’t sell physical products. We don’t accept affiliate deals with hair loss brands. This means we can provide you with truly unbiased information.

Benefits

• Dive deep into treatments, hypotheses, breakthroughs, and more

• Know the truth behind treatments, without any “spin” for product sales

• Updated weekly, so you can stay up-to-date with the latest information

The Truth On Nutrients, Vitamin, & Trace Minerals

Problem

Many hair care brands will rebrand multivitamins as hair growth supplements, then substantiate their labeling claims with studies examining their ingredients’ effects on petri dishes, mice, and people without hair loss, rather than humans with androgenic alopecia.

Solution

We conducted full-scale investigations into most nutrients, vitamins, and trace elements indicated for hair growth. Then we synthesized our research into articles on each ingredient – so you’ll know the real science (or lack thereof) behind the products you’re buying.

Benefits

• Unbiased, up-to-date information

• Save money: avoid supplements that show no benefit to human hair

• Avoid harm: some popular antioxidants may increase all-cause mortality

HairTrackr App

Problem

People want to track progress, but they don’t know how to standardize the process and they hate the idea of keeping their photos on their phone. Comparisons are hard.

Solution

We built an app that does all of this for you, and we released it for free.

Benefits

• Compare + export any two photos with the click of a button

• 100% private storage, so you can stop saving “hair pics” to your photo scroll

• Superimpose past photos to perfectly match up photo angles

• Walk-through videos give you 100% guidance with each new photo entry

• Monthly reminders, so you never forget to take your progress pics

• Filter photos by region and timeline, making progress tracking effortless

• Upload + auto-read older photos, so no more guessing “when” you took a pic

• …and more.

Topical Finasteride Calculator

Problem

Hair growth companies charge premiums for topical finasteride and dutasteride, when these can be made at home by crushing pills and/or diluting previously purchased topicals.

Solution

We made a calculator to help you customize to any dilution of your choosing. It’s the perfect tool to titrate doses and minimize your risk of side effects.

Benefits

• Gain full control over your drug exposure, so you can mitigate side effects

• Cut out the pharmacy and lower your treatment costs from $70+ to $7 per month

• Discover your “upper tolerable dose”, so can maximize your hair gains

Interactive Guide: What Causes Hair Loss?

Problem

Forums, YouTube channels, and businesses involved in the hair loss industry tell consumers different causes of hair loss to benefit their product sales, not patients.

Solution

We built a feature that builds the strongest cases for and against hair loss.

Benefits

• Uncover the steelman arguments “for” and “against” popular hair loss theories

• Know which theories to prioritize, so you can build an effective treatment plan

• Constantly updated based on reader feedback + new studies

Free Guide: Standardized Scalp Massages

Problem

A 2012 study suggested that scalp massages regrew hair for 100% of people, but the findings were published in a low-quality journal and could not be trusted.

Solution

We conducted a cross-sectional survey study of participants adhering to standardized scalp massages for 1-36 months, then published those results in a higher-quality journal and made the materials free to access so people could have better expectations of this intervention.

Benefits

• Get step-by-step video + PDF instructions for scalp massaging

• Follow along with every session, so you never wonder what to do next

• Know the real data on this experimental therapy (it’s not a substitute for drugs)

• Gain advice from people who ran the study, not the internet, so you can maximize your chances for results

7-Day Hair Loss Email Course

Problem

People want general hair loss information and step-by-step guides for treatment, but they also don’t want to do tons of reading every day.

Solution

We built a 7-day email course that drip feeds you hair loss advice – so you can cut through the marketing hype and start following treatments that work.

Benefits

• Consumer hair loss education, broken up into daily digestible segments

• Avoid common hair loss mistakes made by most hair loss sufferers

• Discover which treatments work, their risks, and their opportunity costs

• Know evidence quality, so you can navigate natural vs. conventional treatments

Ingredients Database

Problem

Everyday, consumers are exposed via advertisements to a new “breakthrough” hair growth ingredient – with no ability to discern if this ingredient has high-quality data supporting its use for your kind of hair loss.

Solution

We built an ingredients database that summarizes all major pharmaceuticals, extracts, nutrients, vitamins, trace elements, carrier agents, and more popularized in the hair loss community. We ranked these interventions based on evidence quality. Prioritize the ones that have a score of 50 or greater. It’s all free.

Benefits

• Understand evidence quality, so you can stop buying poorly supported products

Interactive Guide: Hair Loss Disorders

Problem

Consumers lack a fundamental understanding of how to differentiate hair loss types, and how similar many hair loss types can look, especially at the earliest of stages. This delays diagnoses, causes consumers to pursue treatments that don’t fit their specific needs, and worsens long-term outcomes.

Solution

We built an interactive chart revealing how hair loss progresses across genders, stages, and the four major hair loss types – from a macro- and micro- level.

Benefits

• Discover why misdiagnoses are so common, especially with early-stage hair loss

• Know the ins and outs of hair loss – and become your own patient advocate

• Uncover your biggest treatment targets, so you never waste time, money, or hair

• Deep-dive into: androgenic alopecia, telogen effluvium, scarring alopecias,
 and alopecia areata

Treatment Guides

Problem

Doctors cannot (or do not have time) to educate their patients on all the ins and outs of hair loss treatments. When consumers turn to online resources, they face a sea of conflicting information – with everyone trying to sell their own pills, potions, and other physical hair growth products.

Solution

We built out complete guides for the most popular hair loss treatments: oral minoxidil, topical minoxidil, oral finasteride, topical finasteride, oral dutasteride, topical dutasteride, low-level laser therapy, ketoconazole, microneedling, platelet-rich plasma therapy, natural treatments, and more.

Benefits

• Cut out the bias, and gain free access to best-in-class hair loss information

• Studies updated monthly, so you’re always up-to-date

• Dynamic overviews showcase the most important, actionable information

Product Lab Tests: Purity & Potency

Problem

Companies in the hair loss industry are poorly regulated, which means they can often sell you dirt in a bottle and tell you that bottle contains ingredients it actually doesn’t have.

Solution

We lab test consumer products based on membership votes, and share the results so you know what you’re buying. Many of these reports we release entirely for free.

Benefits

• Discover which products cannot meet their labeling claims, and save thousands.

• Full-fledged investigations into product 
claims vs. reality.

• Updated monthly, based on votes from our community

• You pick what we buy + lab test next

Evidence Quality Masterclass

Problem

In the hair loss industry, companies have discovered how to cheat their clinical trials to virtually guarantee good results for any pill, supplement, topical, shampoo, or device they’re selling. They do this by exploiting consumers’ misunderstanding of evidence quality.

Solution

Our masterclass exposes these companies and their studies. We also teach a framework to protect you from these unethical practices.

Benefits

• Gain expertise and become your own patient advocate

• 15+ real-world examples of biased studies, and from companies you’ve heard of

• Discover why evidence quality is so important when selecting treatments

• Download as a video, article, and PDF, so you can learn however you’d like

Up-To-Date Literature Reviews

Problem

Most people get their hair loss news from forums, YouTube, or hair care brands. These resources skew their study interpretations based on profit motives – constantly changing their interpretation of “safe” and “effective” depending on what they’re selling you. The end-result: you never know the real data supporting hair loss treatments.

Solution

We hired a team of PhD’s to run systematic literature reviews on major hair loss treatments. We summarize this data in our treatment overviews, and we update the tables monthly with new studies. It’s all free.

Benefits

• Dynamic tables, built in a consumer-friendly format.

• Update monthly, so your treatment education always stays up-to-date.

• Understand evidence quality, so you can stop buying poorly supported products.

Peer-Reviewed Studies, 100% Accessible

Problem

Consumers want to learn about the science behind hair loss and treatments, but many studies are behind paywalls, and authors never break down their studies for lay people with simple, actionable advice

Solution

We publish peer-reviewed studies ranging from cross-sectional surveys to systematic literature reviews on treatments. We make them 100% free to access, and we release them alongside videos + articles explaining their findings and key takeaways.

Benefits

• Deep-dives into topical finasteride, topical dutasteride, mesotherapy, microneedling, and more – so you’re always up-to-date

• Simple, actionable recommendations based on the latest evidence

• Become your own patient advocate

Free Articles

Problem

Many websites offer “free articles” that slant information to sell their own product lines, or to cash in on affiliate checks. This biases your access to good hair loss information.

Solution

We write hundreds of free articles, written and reviewed by real hair loss researchers. We don’t sell physical products. We don’t accept affiliate deals with hair loss brands. This means we can provide you with truly unbiased information.

Benefits

• Dive deep into treatments, hypotheses, breakthroughs, and more

• Know the truth behind treatments, without any “spin” for product sales

• Updated weekly, so you can stay up-to-date with the latest information

The Truth On Nutrients, Vitamin, & Trace Minerals

Problem

Many hair care brands will rebrand multivitamins as hair growth supplements, then substantiate their labeling claims with studies examining their ingredients’ effects on petri dishes, mice, and people without hair loss, rather than humans with androgenic alopecia.

Solution

We conducted full-scale investigations into most nutrients, vitamins, and trace elements indicated for hair growth. Then we synthesized our research into articles on each ingredient – so you’ll know the real science (or lack thereof) behind the products you’re buying.

Benefits

• Unbiased, up-to-date information

• Save money: avoid supplements that show no benefit to human hair

• Avoid harm: some popular antioxidants may increase all-cause mortality

Hair Loss DNA Scanner

Problem

Gene testing companies take advantage of consumers’ lacking knowledge of evidence quality to build hair loss treatments based on DNA profiles. These cost thousands of dollars, are supported by low-quality and often irrelevant data, and are absent any validation.

Solution

We built similar genetic testing software, so you can upload your raw genetic data and get the same results — with real disclaimers on evidence quality — 100% for free.

Benefits

• Save $400+ on gene testing services. We built and provide this service for free

• Save $1,200 booking a doctor to interpret results. We do this for you, for free

• Know the “real” evidence on DNA and hair treatments (it’s limited)

• Constantly updated, so you can run your results every time we push an update

Genetic Articles

• NR3C1: Can This Gene Predict Responsiveness to Glucocorticoids?
• COL1A1: Can This Gene Predict Regrowth From Collagen Supplements?
• CRABP2: Can This Gene Predict Regrowth From Retinoids?
• BTD: Can This Gene Predict Regrowth From Biotin?
• CYP19A1: Can This Gene Predict Regrowth From Hormone Therapy?
• ACE: Can This Gene Predict Regrowth From Blood Flow Boosters?
• PGTFR: Can This Gene Predict Regrowth From PGF2a Analogs?
• PTGES2: Can This Gene Predict Regrowth from Minoxidil?
• IGF1R: Can This Gene Predict Regrowth From IGF-1?
• SRD5A1 & 2: Can These Genes Predict Regrowth From DHT Reducers?
• SULT1A1: Can This Gene Predict Hair Regrowth From Minoxidil?
• GPR44: Can This Gene Predict Hair Regrowth From PGD2 Inhibitors?

AI Study Analyzer

Problem

Consumers don’t know how to properly analyze studies about hair loss, so they often build regrowth regimens based on poorly supported treatments that don’t apply to their hair loss case.

Solution

We built & trained an AI study analyzer and integrated it with our masterclass on evidence quality — so you can get instant facts about any hair loss study & make better treatment choices.

Benefits

• Instant analysis for any hair loss study

• Save + share your results with a customizable URL

• Instantly know which studies have merit, and which don’t

• Make better treatment decisions

• Master your understanding of evidence quality in the hair loss industry

HairTrackr App

Problem

People want to track progress, but they don’t know how to standardize the process and they hate the idea of keeping their photos on their phone. Comparisons are hard.

Solution

We built an app that does all of this for you, and we released it for free.

Benefits

• Compare + export any two photos with the click of a button

• 100% private storage, so you can stop saving “hair pics” to your photo scroll

• Superimpose past photos to perfectly match up photo angles

• Walk-through videos give you 100% guidance with each new photo entry

• Monthly reminders, so you never forget to take your progress pics

• Filter photos by region and timeline, making progress tracking effortless

• Upload + auto-read older photos, so no more guessing “when” you took a pic

• …and more.