Category: Hair Products

Hi doc, there has been a company which has been on the minds of alot of people recently and for some reason no one like your self has mentioned anything up on it.

The company is “Recoverup”, please have a look at there website below and if you can find more up on this company I assure you alot of people will appreciate it.

Site: Recoverup.com

Also on hairsite.com someone got a very thorough reply, and it seemed pretty legimate, can you also please give us your thoughts on that.

Many Thanks.

There does not seem to be meat on the bone with Recoverup. In other words, there’s nothing here of substance, though there are many outlandish hair growth claims. The site is filled with stock photos and their Video Gallery is just computer animation. If there was really a hair loss solution in that website, I’d suspect the world would be paying attention. Instead, they claim there’s guaranteed growth in 2 weeks time and offer nothing to back that up. I don’t know much about the company, but based on their website it sure looks like they’re offering slick marketing more than actual results.

As for that “pretty legitimate” response on HairSite, to me it sounds like a sales pitch. Here’s what they say about photos of patient results — “In terms of providing pictures, we have found many ‘hair restoration’ websites to have such pictures enhanced with photo editing software, etc and as such we didn’t consider to put up such pictures.”

Uh huh. I’d have to assume that if this was truly a viable hair loss treatment option there would be photos made public, but instead they use the excuse that because some (unknown) hair restoration companies use Photoshopped images, they didn’t want to use any photos of results at all. So why would they use stock photos of pretty, hairy people on their site? Seems dishonest.

One last thought — I am a US-based physician and while I’m not aware of various legalities in other countries, it seems odd that a UK-based company (as Recoverup is) would only be doing this procedure in Taiwan and Malaysia. Are the laws a little more lax in those countries or is there another reason?

Dear Doctor,

I am a great fan of you.. I am suffering from Androgenic Alopacia. I am developing baldness,front area some hairs are there.. in between i am having less hairs, back side i m having more hairs.. my scalp is very oily and i am having lots of sebum balls in my scalp.. Coming to my health, if I couldn’t have my lunch at proper time I will get severe headache and some times I might do the vomiting. The same thing applies to when I smell some fragrances and have some sweet food items. I sleep very late in night like 1 am or 2 am. I heard that taking novophane capsule will help at some extent. Please suggest and help me..Thanks in advance!!

I’m not sure that your headaches or sensitivity to smells have anything to do with your hair loss. If you’re losing hair due to genetic causes, you should talk to your doctor about finasteride (Propecia) which is a prescription medication, or you can get minoxidil without a prescription. Those are proven hair loss treatments. You’re free to try any other capsules or lotions you want, but I sincerely doubt they will help if you’re experiencing genetic hair loss.

I wasn’t familiar with Novophane, but what little I was able to find about it online is as follows — “Novophane capsules is a complete formula which provides a set of nutrients that favour the production keratin in the nails and hair. For this it contains sulphur amino acids (cistina and metionina), vitamins and trace minerals.”

That sounds like meaningless marketing jargon. It contains vitamins and minerals. Great. The Novophane caps don’t contain anything proven to treat MPB. If your loss is due to vitamin deficiency or something else entirely, that’s a different story.

What I believe to be a reputable private practice hair transplant specialist here in San Francisco advised that I exclusively use a 2% zinc shampoo, a recommendation he apparently makes routinely for hair loss.

I however have read conflicting information about the value of topical zinc for men experiencing hair loss, and even that it may accelerate the process. Do you have any thoughts on this issue?

BTW I have not yet undergone any transplant procedure.

Thanks, and with regards

Zinc will not help with treating genetic hair loss. There may be such things as zinc deficiency that can cause hair loss, but that is diet related (which has nothing to do with zinc shampoo). Your reputable private practitioner seems like a good entrepreneur, as well. Sometimes I think about going into the shampoo business…

There was a small study published 7 years ago that said there was a modest improvement in hair growth in those that used a 1% pyrithione zinc shampoo, but it also said that the benefits were only apparent to the investigator and not the patients using the product. Some marketers will use that weak study as a sales point for zinc shampoo.

Dear doctor,

Please go through the clinical study URL given below. I want your comments on this:

Revivogen clinical trials

Regards

As the article says, the study was conducted on reconstructed tissue samples. In other words, the study was done in a petri dish (not on live humans), in order to “assess the effects of the test compound on the metabolism of testosterone in reconstructed human epidermis.” Nothing about growing hair, stopping hair loss, etc.

The study doesn’t show anything about actual hair loss treatment results on living humans, so if the Revivogen makers are using it as a sales point, I hope people actually take a moment to look at the study first and judge for themselves. I’d expect most consumers would want the treatment they purchased to actually have proof that it works as advertised on living people… not just in theory based on lab results. Also, the study was not peer-reviewed, which means it wasn’t checked for errors or reliability.

I’ve already made it clear about the hair loss treatments I’ll give a thumbs up to (FDA approved finasteride and minoxidil), but if you want to try unproven treatments then please, by all means, do so. Revivogen ingredients include saw palmetto and numerous vitamins in a topical treatment and they claim no side effects. While that could be true, if this was the magic bullet to hair loss treatment it would be universally recommended. Instead, the product is just another in a long line of “all natural” treatments that I wouldn’t expect to provide much help aside from lightening your wallet and dashing your hopes.