Rosemary vs. Minoxidil: A Super Speedy Summary

Unlock the secrets of rosemary for hair loss with a comparison to minoxidil. Dr. Joshua Goldenberg presents a super speedy summary of a groundbreaking study comparing natural remedies to pharmaceuticals. Learn about efficacy, side effects, and innovative solutions for androgenic alopecia in this enlightening episode.

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Today we're going to talk aboutrosemary for hair loss.
This is an interesting study.
It came out a few years ago,but rosemary versus minoxidil
for the treatment of androgenicalopecia a randomized controlled
trial.
So androgenic alopecia is avery common form of hair loss
and minoxidil or Rogaine is theprobably most common

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pharmaceutical for it, or atleast one of the most famous.
And rosemary oil has this shownability to be a microvascular
dilator, and so the thought iswell, perhaps that sort of
dilates the blood vessels upthere and you get better hair
growth.
And you know how would thatstack up against rosemary?
And so what did they find?
So, like I said, it's arandomized controlled trial.
This was done in Iran.
So there's 100 young Iranianmales.

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Half of the group got rosemaryoil, half got Rogaine generic
and then they did a hair count.
Now this was a blinded,standardized professional
assessment.
So basically they would takethese like micro photographs and
have blinded individuals sortof count the hair.
So that seemed pretty solid tome.
And what did they find?
So the six month outcomes wererosemary we had an increase in

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hair growth.
Minoxidil we had an increase inhair growth.
They were not statisticallydifferent from each other.
So you have a pre to poststatistically significant
improvement in both groups andthe difference between them was
not statistically significant inthis study.
Now, as far as adverse events,both groups reported itchy scalp
, but it was actually worse inthe minoxidil group as opposed

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to the rosemary group.
So for the full basic levelvideo on this, go ahead and
watch the video with Dr AdamSadowski.
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