Beta sitosterol: what about now in 2013?

Hi everyone,

First of all, please be indulgent about my english, English is not use in my country  

After reading everything i could about beta sistosterol, i decided to ask directly here my issues about my personnal problem in order to fix the situation with someone with knowledges about the subject (i particulary think about CausticSymmetry wich i read on post from 2008 so i dunno if he is still on the forum)  .

So here my problem : since about 5 years (I'am 21 now) i have got acne issues, a polymorph young caracteritic acne. Normal in puberty, but anormal to be so long, at 21 years old..
     All treatments failed , and the only plausible solution would be Roaacutane but here the main issue : I started 2 years ago to have a hair loss (alopecia) since it's run in my father's family. This hair loss is still not visible (i mean not significally).
Besides acne and hairloss starting, i have another big problem, i have some kind of hypertrichosis, i mean by that i have many hair on my body (and some little mild hair (i don't know say in english) on my forehead and down my eyes) .

Anyways, after many research on internet, i finally found probably the source of the problem combinaison ( acne, hair loss, exessive hairy ) and it's the conversion of testosterone into DHT.

So my question is :
Now, in 2013, would you recommand me to take beta sitosterol to try to fix theses issues?
Does anyone have any successful experience with this complement ?

Thanks you a lot for the kind people who will take the time to read me and help me !

try a "red clover" supplement, this will help.

Edit: Where are you from?

thanks you for your answer. (I'm a man, i prefer precise)
I'm from france.

Well, about the red clover, i never heard about such a thing in order to treat my diseases but i will check on internet what i can find about it, but still, I'm convinced my DHT is the root of all my problem and i (perhaps naively) think it will solve them.

EDIT: ok i know how red clover works now, i think I will buy this too, do you know how (wich frequency and amount) use it?

Can i combine red clover and beta sitosterol ?

GFxTT wrote:thanks you for your answer. (I'm a man, i prefer precise)
I'm from france.

Well, about the red clover, i never heard about such a thing in order to treat my diseases but i will check on internet what i can find about it, but still, I'm convinced my DHT is the root of all my problem and i (perhaps naively) think it will solve them.

EDIT: ok i know how red clover works now, i think I will buy this too, do you know how (wich frequency and amount) use it?

Can i combine red clover and beta sitosterol ?

Beta sitosterol can cause side-effects and you don't need it. Red clover extract is enough to block dht without side-effects.

take 50mg isoflavones from red clover once in the morning and once in the evening. You increase the dose if you don't get the desired results.

Oh ok (i never read about the side effect of beta sitosterol until now i see you right, people said no libido effect toward propecia&co)

Do you have any serious website to buy theses isoflavones from red clover with trust?
because i want to tell you, in France web, finding anything about DHT and acne is quite impossible, so few subject and most of the time only relink to the hairloss . So your help means a lot to me, i discover so many things on google.com lol .

no dont know, you have to find that out by yourself. maybe just go the pharmacy and ask.

GFxTT - I think it's safe to say that I've answered over a 100 questions about Beta sitosterol. In your case, it's not likely to benefit. In most cases, it should be avoided.

For acne, here's an older article I wrote.

http://web.archive.org/web/20120713000446/http://healthyfixx.com/plan/3/fixxing-acne-naturally

Thanks you for the post, but the article you wrote, i already wrote things similar and tried to adapt my food routine since about 1 years , and indeed I had less break out than before, but still, theses happens oftently (but when i have a fast food meal with friends for exemple, I know that 24h after that i have a severe break out).

The thing is, I want to reduce the DHT level on my body since i want to prevent a future hairloss ( as I said, I already suffer from it but I still have 90% of my hair right now and I don't want to loose more) , and avoiding the hair grown on my body wich is already important (soft hair on my arm, back etc) and more of all, my acne.

And DHT blockers are the only solution wich can act on theses 3 problems, so here what I planned to do , tell me what you think about it :

Take 1 pill of Zinc 15mg/day
Take 1 pill of saw palmetto berries capsule (580mg) the morning AND the evenning
Take 1 pill of source naturals DIM per day

Drink around 2liters per days of water and 1 mintleaf tea/ day for EGCG
Reduce the most I can (and actually i do this since 1 year) the sugar apports and refined food (but this is almost impossible to don't eat theses at all) I don't eat diairy since about 2 years.

I also do since about 2 years homemade musculation I think that saw palmetto will help since it's prevent the conversion of testosterone into the 2 forme of DHT and also will increase the free T in the blood to acces the muscles