Why People Who Tried Minoxidil And Finasteride Are Switching To A New Treatment No Store Is Allowed To Sell

There's an unusual reason you've never seen this on a shelf. This protocol is what men and women turn to when no other hair loss treatment has worked.

If you used minoxidil exactly the way the box told you to and got nothing, or you were handed the pill and didn't want it, this is the part nobody explained to you.

I'm John Goss. I started losing my hair at twenty, used both approved drugs religiously, tried every shampoo and vitamin on the shelf, and paid for a transplant. I kept losing it anyway.

Here's what I found out about why, after twenty years of looking. I'll go through the three things almost everybody tries, what each one actually does, and the part none of them touch.

What Minoxidil Is Actually Doing Up There

Minoxidil came out of blood pressure research. Somebody noticed patients growing hair, and that observation became a hair loss drug. It's a vasodilator. It widens the vessel, more blood moves through it, and for plenty of people that's enough to notice something.

But look at where it acts. Minoxidil raises the pressure. It does nothing about what's restricting the flow.

That's the first reason. There's a second, and it's why a lot of people got nothing at all.

Minoxidil in the bottle isn't the active drug. It's a precursor. Your scalp has to convert it, using an enzyme, before it does anything.

How much of that enzyme you have varies from person to person. If yours is low, you can apply minoxidil correctly, twice a day for two years, and be doing nothing except getting your hopes up on a schedule.

If that was you, it isn't a verdict on your hair. It's a verdict on the formulation.

The Pill Lowers DHT Everywhere. Including Where You Never Asked It To.

Finasteride is the other approved drug, and it acts on a different part of the problem. It lowers DHT, the hormone driving all of this. That's real, and for some people it's the right call.

Two things about it are worth knowing before you decide.

The first is where it works. It's a pill, so it lowers DHT everywhere in your body, not only at the follicles you're worried about. That's why the side effect conversation exists around it, and it's why a lot of people either won't start it or won't stay on it.

The second is what it still doesn't do. Lowering the signal doesn't restore what the signal already restricted, and it isn't a delivery mechanism for anything else.

I Paid For The Surgery. I Kept Losing My Hair Anyway.

Somebody told me a transplant was the only real answer, so I had one.

And I kept losing my hair.

I want to be careful here, because transplants are real surgery done by real surgeons and the technique has come a long way. A transplant moves hair from where you still have it to where you don't. It was never designed to stop hair loss, and it does not. If the cause is still running underneath, you'll be back in that chair.

One customer wrote in that he'd just spent twelve thousand dollars on a transplant and wanted to keep what he had left. Another told us he was pricing flights to Istanbul before he found us.

Years, real money, and a surgery. I was worse off than when I started, and the one thing nobody had ever given me was an explanation.

So What Is Actually Restricting Blood Flow To The Hair Follicle?

A hair follicle is a living organ. Small, but an organ. It runs on oxygen and nutrients, and those arrive one way: blood flow.

Androgen hormones convert to DHT. Both men and women have them. DHT binds to the androgen receptor at the hair follicle, and that binding disrupts the local blood supply.

An under-supplied follicle doesn't die dramatically. It shrinks. Each cycle it produces a slightly thinner, slightly weaker hair. That's miniaturization, and it's why thinning always comes before loss. By the time you can see it in the mirror, it's been running for years.

Thinning hair is not the problem. It's a symptom of the problem.

Which changes what a treatment has to do. You don't force a follicle to grow. You take the restriction off and let it do what it's built to do. And nothing on a shelf takes the restriction off, because what does is prescription-only.

Nobody Would Make The Formula, So We Spent Six Years Building The Pharmacy

I stopped shopping and started reading. NCBI, PubMed, journals, then the patent office. What I found buried in the literature were fatty acid complexes, linoleic and oleic acid, with studies pointing at the androgen receptor of the hair follicle. Not new, not exotic, and not for sale anywhere.

That bothered me more than anything else in twenty years of looking. Why would something studied and promising simply not exist as a product?

The answer turned out to be economics.

Anything marketed for hair loss in the United States has to go through drug approval. Drug approval costs a fortune. You only recover a fortune if you hold a patent. And you can't patent something natural, something already studied, or something already available as a prescription.

Between 2014 and 2020 I spent more than a million dollars of my own money traveling to chemists, formulators and manufacturers around the world. I sold my house. I sold my car. I cashed out my 401k.

In this category it's normal for a brand to design a box, take the orders, and send the prescription to a pharmacy nobody there has ever set foot in. That's a supply arrangement, not a formulation. When you work that way, what your customer receives is whatever that pharmacy already makes.

What's Actually In The Bottle

The topical carries ARB™, our complex of linoleic and oleic fatty acids. ARB binds the androgen receptor at the follicle, blocking DHT from attaching there, without lowering DHT anywhere else in your body. It isn't spurring growth. It's letting the follicle have a normal blood supply again.

That's the kink, removed.

With it: micronized minoxidil, milled under ten microns so it penetrates instead of sitting on the surface. Tretinoin, which supports the conversion problem from the first section and thins the outer layer of the scalp so more of what you apply gets through. Caffeine, adenosine and niacinamide for circulation and follicle condition.

The topical comes in two minoxidil strengths, 5% and 15%. Fifteen is three times the concentration of the standard 5% formulas on a shelf. The over-the-counter rules cap how much minoxidil a product can contain, and they don't allow it combined with the other actives in ours. A 15% formula with tretinoin in it can only exist as a prescription, compounded for one person.

Which strength you'd be on isn't something this page gets to decide. That's what the physician review is for, and stronger isn't automatically the right answer for everybody.

Then there's how you get any of it through skin built to keep things out.

The epidermis is a barrier. Think of an orange peel. Whatever you put on top of it, most of it stays on top of it. So the protocol is built backward from that fact. Three steps, and the order is the entire point.

I Never Asked Anybody To Post Their Pictures

I started a Facebook group so people could compare notes with each other. I never asked anyone for a photo. They started posting before-and-afters anyway, then started answering each other's questions faster than we could.

Two of them have the Adegen logo tattooed on their bodies. People hide this. I did it for years, under a hat. Nobody advertises the hair product they're on, because most of the time it isn't working and they'd rather you didn't know they were trying at all.

More than 50,000 customers have used Adegen. That's nearly 100,000 orders, and close to 500,000 bottles, brushes and rollers. A lot of them arrived the way you did, at the end of a list of things that didn't work.

I'm going to let them talk, and I'm not editing out the doubts.

What Actually Happens In The First Hundred Days

I'm going to set this expectation low on purpose, because I'd rather you be pleasantly surprised than quietly angry at me in four months.

Hair grows on a cycle. The growth phase runs roughly 90 to 100 days, and no formula skips it. That makes three months the honest minimum window for visible change, and months three through six the real test.

Some people shed more in the first few weeks. That's usually cycle turnover, follicles ending an old phase and starting a new one, which pushes old hairs out on the way. It's unnerving if nobody warns you. It's not the protocol failing.

The first thing most people notice isn't new hair. It's less hair where they normally count it. The drain. The pillow. The sink.

Day 100 can be underwhelming. Our own community says that to each other constantly, more bluntly than we'd ever say it in an ad.

Then there's the part that's on you, and I'm not going to soften it.

If you're not going to do this most days for three months, the money is wasted and I'd rather you keep it. Consistency is the variable that decides the outcome. Every result on this page belongs to somebody who was boring about it.

I've been taken advantage of. I don't like it and I want to help people. The last thing I want to do is over-promise and under-deliver.

How To Get Started With Your Personalized Hair Loss Treatment

Everything above is true of hair loss in general. None of it tells you which part is yours, and that's the question that decides what you should actually be on.

Whether your scalp converts minoxidil. How long yours has been moving. Where you're losing it, because a crown and a hairline don't behave the same way. What you already tried and what happened when you did. What you'd rather avoid entirely.

In more than twenty years, with a pharmacist for a mother and three doctors at the dinner table, not one licensed physician ever sat down, looked at my case, and told me what to do about it. I was handed a category and left to guess, the same as everybody else.

So we made that the front door.

HairIQ™ is the assessment I never got. It asks what your pattern is, how long it's been going, what you've already used and how that went, and what you'd rather not take. Then it weighs your answers against 160+ clinical decision rules and 25,000+ data point combinations and recommends the protocol your case points to.

Not everybody needs the whole kit, and the assessment will tell you plainly if that's your case. I'd rather sell you the right thing than the biggest thing.

You see your exact recommendation and its exact price on screen before you decide anything. Not a range, not a starting-at. Then a licensed physician reviews the case, screens it against your history and your medications, and either approves it or recommends a different formula.

It takes about 60 seconds. It's free, there's no account, and nothing is charged until a physician approves your treatment.

What This Actually Costs

What I've described is the Complete Regrowth Kit. It's the whole protocol in one box, and a 90-day kit is four pieces:

• ARB Shampoo+, for the cleanse and exfoliate step
• Your ARB topical, in the formula the physician approves
• The Microderm Roller
• Two Scalp Exfoliation Brushes

The unit I'd point you to is 90 days, because a hair cycle doesn't care about a monthly billing convention. You can start on a monthly plan instead, and plenty of people do.

Across everybody who's started since we moved to this model, the middle of the pack is $3 per day. Some pay less, because their case only calls for one piece of the protocol. Some pay more. What moves it is which formula a physician approves and how much of the protocol you actually need.

A few things worth knowing now, because they're usually what people find out afterward.

• The roller and both brushes come with the first kit at no extra cost. They ship once, they're yours, and they're not on the recurring order, because you don't need a new roller every quarter.
• The physician review is included. There's no separate consultation fee, and there isn't a version of this where you pay for the review and then pay again for the medication.
• Ninety-day orders ship free.

You're buying one protocol, not four products that were never designed to work together. That's what I was doing for twenty years, and it's the most expensive way to do this that I know of.

You're Not Charged Unless A Licensed Physician Approves Your Treatment

There's no money-back guarantee on this page, and I'd rather explain that than let you wonder about it. These are prescription medications compounded for one person. They can't be returned and dispensed to somebody else.

What we can do instead is make sure you never pay for something a physician hasn't approved.

1. You take the assessment

   You see the protocol your answers point to, with its price.

2. You place the order

   Your card is authorized. Nothing is charged yet.

3. You complete a health questionnaire

   About five minutes, online, no appointment.

4. A licensed physician reviews your case

   They screen it against your history and your medications, and either approve the order or recommend a different formula.

5. If it's approved, it ships

   The payment is captured and it ships from our US-based pharmacy. If it's not approved, the authorization is released and you pay nothing. There's no refund to chase, because there was never a charge.

Two Ways This Goes From Here

You can close this page. That's a real option, and for some people it's the right one.

Here's what that looks like, honestly, because I've lived it. Nothing happens today. Nothing happens this week. You check the pillow tomorrow morning the way you checked it this morning. Then in about a year somebody takes a photograph of you at an angle you didn't choose, and you do the math again.

That isn't me trying to frighten you. It's the direction this moves on its own. Every cycle the shaft comes back thinner than the one before, which means the head of hair you're deciding about today is the best one you'll be deciding about. A follicle responds best the earlier the restriction comes off.

Or you spend about a minute answering questions about your own head, and it stops being something you manage alone.

I'm not going to tell you what your hair is going to look like. I don't know, nobody does, and anyone who says otherwise is guessing at your expense.

What I can tell you is what changes the day you start. You stop shopping. You stop reading forum threads at midnight comparing what strangers did. There's a protocol, you follow it, and a licensed physician looks at your case before any of it ships. In three months you'll know something instead of wondering.

Whatever you tried before didn't fail because you didn't try hard enough. It failed because nobody ever told you what was restricting the follicle underneath.

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