December 12 2005, 12:45 pm PT | Posted in: Hair Products
Hi Dr. Rassman,
What are your thoughts on Revivogen and Kevis? Revivogen seems to be pushed pretty hard as a “natural” DHT blocker that supposedly works well. I hear Kevis commercials on AM radio all the time. is there any validity to their claims?
thank you
Revivogen seems to make claims about ‘proven’ DHT blocking and ‘Doctor formulated’ natural ingredients. Kevis has minoxidil as an active ingredient. There is clear value to minoxidil, but you can buy this over the counter at substantially less money than with the Kevis formula and Revivogen has made claims that are not widely accepted although it has been around for years with some good reports by some consumers. I have made comments on non-FDA approved medications and claims about safety and effectiveness in the past (see Scalpmed and ViTrichol for examples).
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Kevis is CRUD!!!!! It is not only overpriced, but does not work. When I bought it I was fuming and incensed to see how they “carefully” worded “for thicker fuller LOOKING hair”–notice the word “looking”–as that means it does not claim to produce thicker fuller hair, it only claims to produce the look of such–which shows it is 100%, uniquivocal, grade A, all-American CRUD!!!! AKA Snake oil. Fake wonder elixir.
I went off taking Propecia (as I had been doing so for five years), and went on Kevis instead, believing their claims that it was a safe “alternative”, and in the following year I took Kevis, I LOST ALL THE HAIR THAT PROPECIA ALLOWED ME TO HOLD ON TO!!!!!!!!! I had to go in for another round of hair transplants just to make up for the sudden rapid hair loss Kevis caused me, because the hair that I lost never grew back. Now Im taking Propecia again, and my balding process is dormant again–just like it was for the five previous years I took Propecia. Please, please, please dont make the same mistake I did switching from Propecia to Kevis. Kevis doesnt grow hair and if you ask them if it does (like I did, for example) their sales rep actually will tell you they “cant tell you it grows hair, as they dont market it under the FDA’s approval” thus, they claim, thats the reason they say they cant tell you it grows hair. Well, yes, they are right in that the FDA has never approved Kevis, and the specific reason is because Kevis wont allow them to test it because they KNOW IT DOES NOT WORK!!!!!!–and if the FDA did double-blind tests, Kevis would, without a shadow of a doubt in my mind, fail flat on its face, and then Kevis would be screwed like I was when I lost all my hair from switching from Propecia to Kevis. Yes, Kevis quotes every supposed “study” in Europe, Germany, Italy, France–you name the non-US country, they had a “study” there that claims it grows gobs and gobs of hair. But the one country that has the FDA, the US, they will not let it go through any such studying, nor any double-blind tests by the FDA, nothing of the sort. Yes, they’ll hire some random bloke in a foreign country to back up their sham of a product, but they look at the FDA as some unnecessary, unreputable, unreliable, unworthy Administration that wouldnt know a thing about approving drugs of any sort–especially ones that grow hair. May Kevis and all products who pretend to be something theyre not go down in flames. Good luck in not making the same mistake I did.
I have used Kevis for about three months, and it works quite well. Time will tell.