Comment by bawana

At 50 cents a capsule on amazon , prostamol uno (serenoa repens) is more expensive than finasteride so it will forever remain an unrecognized herb. Also, remember we dont really know how these pills are made. Remember the story of that miracle herb, PC-SPES? Widely regarded as a miracle drug when it started selling over the counter, it did indeed significantly improve voiding symptoms as well as out even advanced prostate cancer into remission. It became so widespread that the California Department of Health Services (CDHS) investigated PC-SPES and discovered that it was adulterated with drugs, including warfarin, alprazolam, and diethylstilbesterol (DES). Each capsule had potent estrogens in it! Then the FDA recalled it.

Although the rest of the world benefitted from this research, it was the US that paid for it and did it. I am sad that we are now entering a 'transactional democracy' (you only get as much democracy as you can afford) but then again, that's where the rest of the world has been since WW2. Anecdotal data has driven 'old wives tale medicine' for millenia. I am hoping though that big data, the internet, AI, and the judicious use of Bayes' theorem can distill real knowledge from the vast sea of misinformation that surrounds us.