A 71-Year-Old Grandmother Just Shower Her Dermatologist The Bottle She’d Been Using For 90 Days On Her Thinning Hair - And he Asked Her to Write Down the Name

She'd quietly given up after Rogaine, Nutrafol, and four other products failed. Then she found the topical spray developed by a Washington dermatologist that targets the actual hormone behind menopausal hair loss — not the symptoms.

Published May 27, 2026 • As told to Wellness Insider by Diane Ashworth, 71 • Reviewed by Dr. Yolanda Holmes, MD, FAAD — Board-Certified Dermatologist • 9:14 AM EST

Published: May 18, 2026 | Investigative Report By Diane Ashworth, Dr. Yolanda Holmes, Lisa Renner | Health & Beauty Investigative Reporter | 9:47 AM EST

My name is Diane Ashworth.

I am 71 years old. I live outside Asheville, North Carolina. I have three grandchildren, a husband of 48 years, and until about 12 weeks ago, I had a bathroom drawer full of bottles I'd given up on.

I'm writing this because last Tuesday, my dermatologist of 11 years — a man I have trusted with everything from sun spots to a small skin cancer scare in 2019 — asked me to write down the name of the spray I'd been using.

On a prescription pad.

With his own pen.

I want to be clear about something before I go any further.

I am not a doctor. I am not a wellness influencer. I am not getting paid to write this. I am a 71-year-old woman who spent six years and just over four thousand dollars trying to save her hair — and watched every single product fail — until 12 weeks ago, when something finally worked.

My friend Patricia is the reason I tried one more time. My husband Tom is the reason I'm telling this story now. He's the one who said: "Diane, if you don't write this down, you're going to forget what it felt like to be the woman in that drawer."

I haven't forgotten.

So here's what happened.

In 2018, when I was 64, my hair started falling out. Not in dramatic clumps. Just… more on the brush. More wrapped around my fingers in the shower. A part line that was a little wider than it used to be.

By 2019, I'd tried Rogaine. The dread shed nearly broke me — four months of watching my hair fall out worse than before I'd started — and I quit.

By 2020, I was paying $88 a month for Nutrafol. I took it for 14 months. My fingernails got stronger. My hair kept falling out.

By 2021, my daughter bought me a $619 laser cap for Mother's Day. I used it for six weeks. It went in the drawer.

By 2022, I'd tried Vegamour. By 2023, I had a telehealth doctor sending me compounded minoxidil and spironolactone for $89/month. By spring 2024, I had stopped trying.

Quietly.

The way women in their 70s give up on things. Without making a fuss about it.

So when I tell you my dermatologist — a man with three diplomas on the wall and 30 years of practice — looked at the bottle in my hand last Tuesday and said, "Diane, would you write that down for me? I'd like to look into it" — I want you to understand what that meant.

It meant a board-certified physician had just admitted, to a 71-year-old patient, that I had found something he hadn't.

I'm going to tell you exactly what was in that bottle.

I'm going to tell you what it did to my hair in 90 days.

And I'm going to tell you why a Washington, D.C. dermatologist named Dr. Yolanda Holmes is the reason it exists at all.

If you've spent the last few years trying every product the internet has thrown at you and watching your part line widen anyway — please don't stop reading.

I am you, four months ago.

THE DRAWER I COULDN'T BRING MYSELF TO THROW AWAY

The drawer was in our master bathroom.

Bottom left. Below the sink. The drawer Tom never opens because he uses the medicine cabinet for everything.

Inside that drawer was my history.

The Rogaine foam, half-used, from 2019. I'd quit it after four months of the dread shed.

The Nutrafol Women's Balance — three months of subscription bottles, two of them still sealed, because by month 11 I'd accepted nothing was happening and I just stopped opening them. I kept paying for them. I just stopped opening them.

A small bottle of Vegamour GRO serum. Half empty.

A jar of biotin gummies from Costco. The lid was loose. They'd gotten sticky.

A laser comb my daughter Erin had bought me for Mother's Day in 2021. Still in its original retail box. I'd used it for six weeks, every other night, sitting on the edge of the tub while Tom read in bed. Then I'd put it back in the box. The box went in the drawer.

A telehealth-prescribed bottle of compounded minoxidil with spironolactone — $89/month for nine months — that I'd quit because at 70 years old, taking an oral hormone drug to maybe save my hair felt like a trade I wasn't willing to make.

A scalp serum from a brand I'd seen on Instagram. The label promised "results in 30 days." I'd thrown the box away but kept the bottle, in case it turned out to be the one that finally worked. It wasn't.

The total, when I added it up later, was just over $4,100.

Spent in six years. On products that either did nothing, made things worse, or worked just enough to keep me buying them.

But the drawer wasn't the worst of it.

The worst of it was that I had stopped looking in the drawer.

There was a moment — and I remember it precisely — when I stopped trying.

It was April 2024. Tom had taken a photo of me at our grandson Asher's preschool graduation. I was standing in the back row, behind a row of toddlers in tiny graduation caps. The sun was hitting my crown directly.

That night, I saw the photo on Facebook. My sister-in-law Marlene had tagged me.

I could see my scalp through my hair.

Not in a "bad lighting" way.

In a "this is what people see when they look at me" way.

I closed the laptop. I walked into the bathroom. I opened the drawer. I looked at all the bottles. I closed the drawer.

I didn't throw anything out. I didn't order a new product. I didn't cry.

I just closed the drawer.

I think that's what giving up looks like when you're a woman in your 70s.

You don't cry about it. You don't tell your husband. You just stop opening drawers.

That was April 2024.

I didn't open the drawer again until November of last year.

And the only reason I opened it was because something my friend Patricia said over coffee made me angry enough to try one more time.

What she said was this:

"Diane — you've been told every single one of those products would work on your hair. And not one person has ever told you the actual hormone behind why it's falling out in the first place."

THE HORMONE NO ONE NAMED IN SIX YEARS OF APPOINTMENTS

Patricia is 68 years old. She lives ten minutes from me. She's a retired nurse — 32 years at Mission Hospital in Asheville — and she's married to a retired physician.

She'd been losing her hair too. Quietly, like the rest of us.

But Patricia has the kind of husband who forwards her research papers from medical journals. And she'd spent the last two months reading them.

We were sitting at a coffee shop on Merrimon Avenue. She put down her coffee. She looked at me across the table.

And she said it.

"It's a hormone called DHT. Dihydrotestosterone."

I'd never heard of it.

In six years of dermatology appointments, gynecologist visits, telehealth consultations, ingredient labels — not one person, not one doctor, not one bottle, not one pharmacist had ever mentioned this hormone to me.

Patricia kept talking.

She explained that every woman's body produces small amounts of testosterone. When estrogen is high — in our 20s, 30s, early 40s — estrogen keeps testosterone in check.

When estrogen drops at menopause, testosterone becomes more dominant.

The body then converts that testosterone into something called DHT through an enzyme called 5-alpha reductase.

DHT binds to receptors at the hair follicle. And then — slowly, over years — it shrinks the follicle.

Each growth cycle, the follicle produces a thinner, weaker, shorter hair. Until eventually, it stops producing visible hair at all.

I almost stopped her right there.

Because I'd been told my whole life that my hair was thinning because of aging. Or stress. Or being post-menopausal. Or my mother's genes.

Not because of a hormone.

And certainly not the same hormone that makes men go bald.

Patricia pulled out her phone.

She showed me a study. Published in 1994. University of Frankfurt. Researchers had measured DHT levels in 89 menopausal women experiencing hair loss.

The DHT levels were comparable to balding men.

Not slightly elevated.

Comparable.

I sat in that coffee shop for a long time after she said that.

Because I'd spent six years being told to be patient. To manage my stress. To take a supplement. To eat more protein. To use a gentler shampoo.

And not one person had ever told me that the actual reason my hair was falling out was a hormone that was, biologically, doing the exact same thing to my follicles that it does to a bald man's.

Patricia wasn't done.

She said: "Now think about what you've actually been buying."

She listed them off.

Rogaine? Doesn't block DHT. Just forces temporary blood flow to the scalp. The moment you stop using it, your hair falls out again. Customer for life.

Nutrafol? Multivitamins with adaptogens. Stronger nails. Doesn't block DHT. Monthly subscription forever.

The laser cap? Stimulates growth factors temporarily. Doesn't block DHT.

The compounded prescription? Same minoxidil base. Same problem.

The Vegamour serum? Label-dust ingredients at sub-therapeutic concentrations. Doesn't block DHT.

Every single product in my drawer was treating something — but none of them were treating the actual hormone behind the loss.

They were treating symptoms. Not the cause.

Patricia put her phone down.

Then she said the sentence I have quoted to every woman who has asked me about my hair since:

"Diane, every product you've ever tried was designed to make your follicles work harder. None of them were designed to stop the hormone that's been strangling them for the last 20 years."

I walked out of that coffee shop in a state of quiet fury.

Not at Patricia. Not at Tom. Not at myself.

At an entire industry that had taken six years of my time, four thousand dollars of my money, and given me nothing — because not one product I'd ever bought had been built to fight the right enemy.

$4,118 IN SIX YEARS — AND

When I got home from coffee with Patricia, I did something I'd been avoiding for two years.

I opened the drawer.

I took every bottle out. I lined them up on the bathroom counter in chronological order. And I added up exactly what I'd spent.

I sat on the edge of the tub with a yellow legal pad and a pen.

Here's what six years of trying looked like.

MINOXIDIL / ROGAINE FOAM (2018–2019) What I paid: $42/month Total: $546 over 13 months What it did: Forced temporary blood flow to my scalp. Why it failed me: Doesn't block DHT. The moment I stopped using it, my hair fell out worse than before. The dread shed lasted four months.

NUTRAFOL WOMEN'S BALANCE (2020–2021) What I paid: $88/month subscription Total: $1,232 over 14 months What it did: A multivitamin with adaptogens, routed through my digestive system. Why it failed me: Doesn't block DHT. Less than 5% of the nutrients ever reached my scalp. My fingernails got stronger. My hair kept falling out.

LASER CAP (2021) What it cost: $619 (a Mother's Day gift from my daughter — but still my hair, still counted) Total: $619 What it did: Low-level light therapy at the follicle. Why it failed me: Doesn't block DHT. After six weeks of using it every other night, I gave up. Box still in the drawer.

VEGAMOUR GRO SERUM (2022) What I paid: $58/month Total: $348 over six months What it did: A plant-based scalp serum at label-dust concentrations. Why it failed me: Doesn't block DHT at therapeutic levels. Smelled nice. Did nothing measurable.

TELEHEALTH-PRESCRIBED MINOXIDIL + SPIRONOLACTONE (2023) What I paid: $89/month Total: $801 over nine months What it did: Same minoxidil mechanism, plus an oral hormone modulator. Why it failed me: The spironolactone helped slightly. The minoxidil still didn't. And I was terrified of taking an oral hormone drug at 70, so I quit.

BIOTIN, COLLAGEN, INSTAGRAM SERUMS (ongoing through 2023) What I paid: ~$30/month across various products Total: $572 What it did: Promised nutritional support. Why it failed me: Biotin only works if you're deficient. I wasn't. None of it blocked DHT.

TOTAL OVER SIX YEARS: $4,118.

I sat there with the legal pad on my lap.

Six years.

Six failed products.

Not one of them — not Rogaine, not Nutrafol, not the laser cap my daughter spent her own money on, not the prescription a telehealth doctor sent me — targeted the actual hormone Patricia had named at the coffee shop.

Six years of products. Six years of hope. Six years of monthly subscriptions billed to my credit card without me even checking.

And not one of them was built to fight the right enemy.

That was the moment I stopped feeling defeated.

And started feeling angry.

WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR — AND WHAT I FINALLY FOUND

That night, I sat at our kitchen table with my laptop and a yellow legal pad.

I wrote down a list of criteria.

Because I was done. Done with vague marketing. Done with monthly subscriptions. Done with products that wouldn't name the mechanism they were targeting.

If I was going to try one more time — at 70 years old, after six years of failures — the next product had to meet six rules.

One: It had to specifically block DHT. Not "support hair growth." Not "promote thickness." Block. DHT.

Two: It had to be applied directly to the scalp. Not swallowed. Not routed through digestion. Not depending on my 70-year-old gut to absorb and redirect nutrients.

Three: It could not be a prescription requiring a doctor's enzyme my body might not have. (Patricia had told me about something called SULT1A1 — the scalp enzyme Rogaine needs to work, that up to 60% of menopausal women apparently don't produce in sufficient amounts. That was an answer to a question I'd been asking for six years.)

Four: No dread shed. I would not survive another one. I was clear with myself about that.

Five: No lifetime subscription. Not because I couldn't afford it — but because I was tired of being a recurring revenue line item.

Six: It had to be developed by an actual doctor. Not an Instagram influencer. Not a wellness brand with a celebrity face. An actual, board-certified doctor with a real practice and real patients.

I spent three nights researching.

I read ingredient lists. I Googled every compound. I read clinical trial abstracts I didn't fully understand and then re-read them until I did.

I found Hair Helper Spray on the fourth night.

And what stopped me on the page wasn't the marketing.

The marketing was fine. Pretty bottle. Five-star reviews. Standard direct-response copy.

What stopped me was the ingredient list.

Sophora Flavescens Extract. Pharmaceutical-grade caffeine. Oryza Sativa rice extract. Angelica polymorpha sinensis root. Topical biotin.

I'd spent three nights reading research papers. Every single one of those compounds had peer-reviewed studies showing direct inhibition of 5-alpha reductase — the enzyme that converts testosterone into DHT.

Not one of the products in my drawer had any of these ingredients.

Not one.

I sat at the table for a long time after I realized that.

Let me show you what I found.

SOPHORA FLAVESCENS EXTRACT A study published in the Journal of Dermatological Science showed 87% inhibition of 5-alpha reductase — the enzyme that produces DHT — at therapeutic concentration. Used in Traditional Chinese Medicine for over 1,000 years specifically for thinning hair in older women. None of the products in my drawer contained it.

PHARMACEUTICAL-GRADE TOPICAL CAFFEINE Not the caffeine in my morning coffee. Topically applied, at clinical concentrations, it blocks DHT from binding to follicle receptors and extends the growth phase of the hair cycle. Published in the International Journal of Dermatology as non-inferior to 5% minoxidil — without the dread shed. None of the products in my drawer contained it at therapeutic dose.

ORYZA SATIVA (RICE EXTRACT) Contains gamma-oryzanol and ferulic acid. Both inhibit Type 1 and Type 2 of the 5-alpha reductase enzyme. A study from Seoul National University demonstrated increased follicle density at 12 weeks. The same compound behind the Yao women of Huangluo Village in China — known worldwide for thick, dark hair into their 70s and 80s. None of the products in my drawer contained it.

ANGELICA POLYMORPHA SINENSIS ROOT Protects newly active follicles from DHT damage. Improves microcirculation directly at the follicle. Used in traditional Chinese medicine for female hair loss for 2,000 years. None of the products in my drawer contained it.

TOPICAL BIOTIN I'd been swallowing biotin gummies for years. Less than 3% of oral biotin reaches the scalp. Topical delivery — sprayed directly on — changes the entire equation. None of the products in my drawer used it topically.

Five compounds. Each one independently studied. Each one specifically targeted at the hormone Patricia had named at the coffee shop.

Combined in one bottle. At therapeutic concentration. Sprayed directly on the scalp. Once a day. Ten seconds.

No prescription. No subscription. No dread shed. No oral hormones.

But I still wasn't ready to buy it.

I wanted to know who had built it.

THE WASHINGTON DERMATOLOGIST WHO BUILT IT

I'd been burned by influencer brands. I wasn't going to send another $89 to a pretty bottle without knowing the person behind it.

So I looked her up.

Dr. Yolanda Holmes, MD, FAAD.

Board-certified dermatologist. Howard University. MedStar Washington Hospital Center affiliations. 15+ years specializing in women's hair and scalp conditions.

A real practice. Real patients. Real medical license number you can look up with the D.C. Department of Health.

Not an influencer. Not a wellness celebrity. A working dermatologist who had built a formula because she was tired of failing her patients.

I read an interview she'd given to a women's health publication. One quote stayed with me.

Dr. Yolanda Holmes, MD, FAAD — Board-Certified Dermatologist

"I've been treating menopausal hair loss for 15 years. In that time, I've watched women cycle through every product the industry has thrown at them — Rogaine, Nutrafol, transplants, PRP. And I've watched almost all of them fail, for one very simple reason.

None of those products were built to block the hormone actually causing the loss.

The 1994 University of Frankfurt study proved menopausal women have DHT levels comparable to balding men. That has been published, peer-reviewed, and ignored for 30 years.

I developed Hair Helper Spray because I was tired of telling my patients there was nothing more I could offer them. The formula is built around the five botanical compounds with the strongest published evidence for inhibiting 5-alpha reductase at the follicle. It's the protocol I'd been wishing existed for a decade.

When women in their 60s and 70s tell me they've found their hair again — that's the reason I'm still doing this work."

That was enough for me.

I ordered the bottle that night.

It arrived four days later, in a small box on my front porch.

I wrote the date I started using it in Sharpie on the bottom of the bottle.

December 3, 2024.

WHAT HAPPENED EVERY WEEK FOR THE NEXT 90 DAYS

I didn't tell Tom.

I didn't want him to ask questions and then have to admit it had failed like all the others.

I sprayed it on at night, before bed. Crown, part line, temples. Ten seconds. Then I'd sit on the edge of the bed and read for a few minutes while it absorbed.

Here's what happened.

Week 1. Nothing visible. I kept using it.

Week 2. Still nothing visible. But I noticed something strange in the shower drain. There were fewer hairs. I didn't trust it. I counted the next morning. Then the morning after.

Week 3. I counted the hairs in my drain. They had gone from 80–90 every morning to about 35. I counted again the next day. 38. I sat on the edge of the tub and looked at the hairs in my hand and didn't know whether to cry or laugh.

Week 5. I saw them first in the bathroom mirror, under the vanity light. Tiny baby hairs along my part line. Little wisps standing up straight where there had been nothing for years. I thought I was imagining it. I took a photo on my phone. The next morning, I took another. They were still there.

Week 8. My hairdresser, Renee — who has been cutting my hair for 14 years — stopped mid-trim, looked at me in the mirror, and asked: "Diane, what are you doing? Your hair feels thicker. And you've got new growth all along your temples." I just smiled. I still hadn't told Tom.

Week 10. My part was visibly tighter. I could wear my hair down without seeing scalp through it. For the first time in five years, I let it air-dry on a Saturday morning and looked at it in the mirror and didn't immediately reach for a clip.

Week 12. I had the hair thickness I remembered from my 50s. Not teenage hair. Not 30-year-old hair. Just… normal. Healthy. Mine.

The morning of week 13, Tom came into the bathroom while I was getting ready.

He stood in the doorway for a moment.

Then he said: "Diane — what have you been doing? Your hair looks like it did when we were 50."

I told him.

Then I showed him the drawer. The new drawer. The one with one bottle in it.

THE MOMENT MY DERMATOLOGIST ASKED ME TO WRITE IT DOWN

Tuesday, March 11. Last week.

I had my annual skin check with Dr. R — my dermatologist of 11 years.

He's 54 years old. White coat. Reading glasses on a chain around his neck. He's known me since I was 60. He'd removed a basal cell carcinoma from my shoulder in 2019.

He was going through my checkup. Moles. Sun spots. The usual.

Then he stopped.

He looked at my hair.

"Diane — your hair looks different."

"It's grown back."

"Grown back? You were thinning at the crown the last time I saw you."

"I know."

"What are you doing? Did you start minoxidil again?"

"No. I quit minoxidil four years ago."

"Then what?"

I reached into my purse. I pulled out the bottle. I handed it to him.

He turned it over. He read the ingredient list. He looked up at me. He read the ingredient list again.

Then he reached for his prescription pad.

"Diane — would you write down the name of this for me? I'd like to look into it for some of my other patients."

I want you to understand exactly what that meant.

Dr. R is a board-certified dermatologist with 30 years of practice. He has degrees on his wall from Duke and Wake Forest. He has prescribing authority. He is, by every measure, more qualified to treat my hair loss than I am.

And he was asking me — a 71-year-old patient — to write down the name of a product he'd never heard of.

Not because he was incompetent.

Not because he was lazy.

Because the medical system doesn't surface products like this to the doctors inside it.

There is no pharmaceutical rep walking into Dr. R's office handing him samples of a botanical topical spray. There is no continuing education credit for learning about it. There is no insurance billing code attached to it. There is no advertising in the dermatology journals he reads.

Hair Helper exists outside the system Dr. R operates inside.

Which is why he didn't know about it.

Which is why none of the other six doctors I'd seen over six years had known about it.

And which is why the only way most women will ever find it is through another woman — like Patricia at a coffee shop, or like me, right now, writing this letter to whoever is reading it.

I wrote the name down on his prescription pad.

He folded it in half and put it in his white coat pocket.

That was last Tuesday.

WHAT IT COSTS — AND WHY I'M TELLING YOU

I want to be very clear about something.

I am not paid by Trybello.

Dr. Holmes' team reached out after I left a review. They asked if I'd be willing to share my story. I said yes — but only if I could tell it the way I wanted to tell it. They agreed.

I'm telling you this because I spent $4,118 on products that didn't work. And if I can save one woman from doing the same thing, this letter is worth my time.

Here's what it actually costs.

Regular price: $80.00 per bottle.

That's already 70% less than a typical month of dermatology-prescribed treatment.

But when you choose the 3-month supply — your price today is just $33 per bottle.

That's 58% off the regular price.

Less than what Tom spends on one tank of gas.

Less than what I used to pay for one month of Rogaine.

Less than ONE bottle of Nutrafol — and Nutrafol kept billing me for 14 months while my hair kept falling out.

For the only spray I have ever found that actually targets the hormone behind menopausal hair loss.

Why a 3-month supply?

Because that's the window where you'll see your real results.

Week 3 the shedding slows.

Week 6 you see baby hairs.

Week 12 your hairdresser asks what you're doing differently.

That's three bottles.

This is the package most of Dr. Holmes' patients order. It gives you the full window to know whether it's working — with the safety net of the 120-day guarantee.

But I have to be honest with you about something.

Dr. Holmes' team has told me this discount is only available for the next 48 hours. After that, the price goes back to $80

I have no financial stake in whether you buy this or not.

But if you've read this far, I'd urge you not to wait.

WHAT I WISH SOMEONE HAD TOLD ME AT 65

I'm going to tell you what I wish someone had told me six years ago, when I bought my first bottle of Rogaine and the dread shed started.

Most products will not give you your money back.

I tried with Rogaine. The pharmacy said no.

I tried with Nutrafol. The subscription "couldn't be retroactively refunded."

I tried with the laser cap. "Final sale."

I tried with the Vegamour serum. They gave me a credit toward "another product in their line." I didn't want another product. I wanted my $348 back.

Hair Helper does it differently.

OUR 120-DAY "THICKER HAIR" GUARANTEE:

Use Hair Helper Spray for 120 days. Spray it on your scalp every morning and night. Sixty seconds. That's all.

Count the hairs in your drain. They'll decrease. Take weekly photos of your part. It'll tighten. Feel for baby hairs along your temples. They'll appear.

And if you don't wake up one morning thinking, "Wait — I forgot to obsess about my hair today" — if you don't look in the mirror and recognize the hair you thought was gone forever — email support@trybello.com and say "It didn't work."

They'll send you a prepaid return label.

Your refund hits your account within 48 hours.

No forms. No "store credit." No 20-minute phone calls with a "retention specialist."

Dr. Holmes told me the refund rate is 2.8% across 48,000 customers.

That's 97.2% of women who got results and never looked back.

I'm one of the 97.2%.

And I have a feeling, if you've read this far, you will be too.

TWO PATHS. ONE DECISION.

I'm going to leave you with this.

Six years ago, I stood at the crossroads you're standing at right now.

I went the wrong way.

Let me show you both paths — so you can choose more wisely than I did.

PATH 1 — KEEP GOING THE WAY I WENT

  • Keep buying products that don't name the hormone behind your hair loss

  • Keep counting hairs in the drain every morning

  • Keep avoiding photos at family events

  • Keep wearing your hair pulled back to hide your part

  • Keep spending $80–$95/month on subscriptions that route nutrients away from your scalp

  • Keep filling a drawer with bottles you'll eventually stop opening

  • Keep telling yourself this is "just aging"

  • Keep waiting for a doctor to bring you the answer — when the system isn't built to give it to him

PATH 2 — DO WHAT I FINALLY DID AT 70

  • Spend less than a tank of gas to find out

  • Block the actual hormone behind menopausal hair loss

  • Wake up in 3 weeks with noticeably fewer hairs in your drain

  • Wake up in 6 weeks with baby hairs along your temples

  • Wake up in 12 weeks with the hair you remembered from your 50s

  • Have your hairdresser ask what you're doing differently

  • Have your husband stand in the bathroom doorway and notice

  • Have your own dermatologist ask you to write the name on a prescription pad

The choice is yours.

If you go Path 1, you'll be where I was. Sitting on the edge of a bathtub with a yellow legal pad, adding up four thousand dollars of bottles that never had a chance of working.

If you go Path 2, you'll be where I am. Writing a letter to strangers because something finally worked, and I cannot in good conscience keep quiet about it.

I'm 71 years old. I have my hair back. I have my family photos back. I have my husband running his fingers through my hair the way he used to.

All for less than what I used to spend on Nutrafol in a single month.

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P.S. — Patricia and I sent photos to her sister Eleanor last week. Eleanor is 73. She lives in Charleston. She ordered three bottles the same day. She called me yesterday to tell me her shedding had stopped at week 2. We're all in this together — and the women who try it first are telling the women who come next. That's how it's spreading.

P.P.S. — If you have a daughter, a sister, a friend over 50 who has stopped opening her bathroom drawer — please send her this. She's giving up quietly. She doesn't need another product. She needs to know what hormone has been attacking her follicles for the last 20 years. She needs someone to tell her it isn't her fault.

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Had to buy one for my sister too – she kept "borrowing" mine 😄

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Jennifer Hayes

OMG SAME! I saw it was back in stock and ordered immediately. Didn't want to miss out again!

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Patricia Coleman

Can't even begin to tell you the difference I feel day to day. My confidence is BACK.

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Emma Parker

Hey Emma, this is what you need instead of those expensive supplements you've been taking!

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Susan Miller

Just got mine in the mail today! Using it tonight for the first time. Fingers crossed!

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Mary Johnson

Has anyone else noticed their hairdresser asking what they're doing differently? Mine literally asked to take a photo of the bottle!

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Linda Brown

For me, it took about 8 weeks to really see the difference. But now at 12 weeks? Night and day.

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Dorothy Garcia

My daughter actually showed me this article. I didn't believe it at first, but after just 6 weeks, I feel so much more confident. No more avoiding mirrors!

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Carol Rodriguez

Wow this sounds amazing. Has anyone over 60 tried this? I'm 63 and nervous about trying another product...

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Linda H

I'm 67 and it's working beautifully for me! Give it a shot – you've got 120 days to try it risk-free anyway.

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Sandra Davis

I've been using this for 8 weeks and I'm honestly shocked. No more shedding in the shower, and I can finally sleep through the night without worrying. My hair hasn't felt this healthy in YEARS.

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Nancy Anderson

Just ordered mine! Can't wait to try it.

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Helen Thomas

Really want to test this out. My part has been getting wider and it's freaking me out.

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Glenda clark

Do it! I waited 3 months before ordering and I regret not starting sooner. It really works.

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Deborah White

Does anyone know how long shipping takes? I want to surprise my mom with this for her birthday.

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Sharon Harris

Mine arrived in 4 days!

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Jessica Clark

Your mom will love it! It's the perfect gift if she's been struggling with thinning hair.

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