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In November, Stan Lazaridis will be returning to the game he loves so much. He has just been cleared to go back to playing soccer for his club, Perth Glory. Last year Lazaridis was banned from the game, due to testing positive to a banned substance. A drug that was prescribed for alopecia.
Lazaridis had been […]
Seems balding athletes don’t read each other’s press. You’d think everyone would be aware of finasteride and it’s complications from Zach Lund’s Olympic ban. Or perhaps not…
Australian international soccer player Stan Lazaridis recently tested positive for finasteride. Of course he claims to be using it to regrow hair. Of course he also forgot to get […]
Seems the receding hair line may have been just the thing to push Lund over the top. Last week, the skeleton racer claimed the first World Cup win of his career by a margin of 0.16 seconds.
The Times Union has a nice story on Lund and his travails.
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US World Cup skeleton rider, Zach Lund, has completed his one year suspension from the sport, and in ready to compete. Last year, Lund was suspended for using finasteride, the active ingredient in Propecia. Lund maintains that he used the drug to combat hair loss - a claim supported by the photo which accompanies this […]
I’m sure a number of you caught the Zach Lund story back during the winter Olympics. He’s the US skeleton racer who was banned for having used finasteride (aka Propecia), which not only helps regrow hair but also masks a few performance enhancing drugs. Zach says he was using it to grow hair, and there’s […]
This story comes from BBC News:
A drug used to treat male baldness could also help women with thinning hair, an Italian study suggests.
The researchers said the Archives of Dermatology findings showed finasteride could be used for those who could not use the standard lotion treatment. (link)
First and foremost it should be noted that finasteride is […]
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