My colleague Rolf Winkler has a full head of hair.

Still, he gets targeted for hair loss medications all the time, often by telehealth companies, like Hymns.

I'm on hymns.com, and it gives you all these different options for medications that

they'll sell you on subscription. Rolf and I decided to see how quickly he could sign up for

hair loss meds online. Shall we hit regrow hair? Sure. Let's try regrow hair. Okay. All right,

I'm clicking that. It offers

Phanastoride, which blocks D.HT, a hormone that causes hair loss. Finasteride is the generic

version of the brand name pill Propetia, and it has some known and potentially nasty side effects.

Then there's an option to click on safety information or side effects.

If I want to click on that, I don't have to. I can just sort of continue. And then you hit

submit. Yep. And in your case, how long did it take before you got approval? 60 seconds.

60 seconds. 60 seconds.

Just about as long as you've been listening to this episode.

That's how quickly Rolf got approved for finasteride.

Why is this a problem?

Is it even a problem?

Well, there are a lot of men we spoke to who got some very gnarly side effects from finasteride that they got from telehealth companies.

And they said they really weren't warned about the side effects.

Telehealth companies say they disclose side effects and other risks on their websites.

But a lot of men say they wish they would have slowed down and read the fine print,

because some of them are suffering serious health problems.

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