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Both books, plus the paper you take out of the house

The Follicle Field Kit

"I have an appointment. How do I make it produce an answer?"

Both guides plus the printable set: the lab-request and results sheet, the medication cross-reference to hand to your prescriber, the twelve-month record with its photo protocol, and the ten-minute appointment script. Sized for US Letter and laid out to print on a plain home printer in black ink alone.

$97 — one payment, three PDFs by email. Both guides plus 13 printable sheets — 224 + 277 + 82, so 583 printed pages in all. No subscription, no renewal, no account.

Before you buy anything: see a clinician promptly if any of the warning signs apply to you. These are not reasons to panic. They are reasons not to wait, and not to spend the next six months on a shampoo. Read the ten warning signs first ↓

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Educational material only. Not medical advice, not a diagnosis, and not a substitute for care from a licensed clinician. Nothing here promises a single hair.

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The Follicle Field Kit · both guides plus 13 printable sheets · $97 · delivered as three PDFs by email
Where this one usually starts

The appointment lasts ten minutes. This is what you carry into it.

You have the appointment, or you are about to make one, and you already know how the last one went: it lasted ten minutes, you came out with the word "stress", no blood work and no name for this. Not because nobody cared. Because ten minutes is what there is, and nothing you brought was written down.

This is the tier that is paper. The two books do the thinking; the thirteen sheets are what leaves the house with you — a test list written the way a US lab orders it, your own medication list next to the classes documented in the literature, a twelve-month record with the photo protocol so a year from now you are comparing pictures instead of impressions, and the opening sentence written out so nobody has to improvise while the clock runs.

We recommend this one for a specific reason, not because it costs the most: the thing nobody can sell you is the answer to which kind of loss you have — only a clinician who examines you and orders blood work can name it. What the Kit does is make that appointment produce the answer, which is the one thing a twenty-minute video physically cannot hand over. If you are not there yet, $27 answers the first question and this page is not going anywhere.

Who it is for
You have an appointment booked, or you are about to make one, and you want to walk in with paper instead of a story.
What it does not promise
No result, no regrowth, no timeline, no personalised review and no access to a clinician. And it is not a diagnosis: nobody can name your kind of hair loss from a page, a photograph or a mirror — that takes an examination, sometimes a dermatoscope, and sometimes a biopsy.
Three PDFs, counted

What is actually in it

Length
583 printed pages in all — 224 + 277 + 82, measured
Structure
Two guides, thirty chapters, eight appendices, and 13 printable sheets
Format
Three PDFs, by email, within a couple of minutes of paying. The sheets are sized for US Letter and laid out to print on a plain home printer in black ink alone
Price
$97, one payment. No renewal, no account, no card kept on file

The thirteen sheets

Six of them are in neither book. They are marked.

Why it is not the two books stapled together: six of its thirteen sheets are not in either guide — what it costs and who pays; what to do with the months while you wait; how to photograph the back of your own head; how to start again after stopping; how to cover it up honestly, with prices and their dates; and one for the person reading this on somebody else's behalf. The other seven are the paper the books ask you to bring.

The two guides, in full

The Follicle Field Guide — the naming book 224 pages · 14 chapters
  1. 1Read This Page First: The Signs That Mean See Someone This Week
  2. 2Shedding or Losing? Two Words for One Problem
  3. 3What Happened Three Months Ago
  4. 4Read the Pattern
  5. 5The Kind That Scars, and Why It Cannot Wait
  6. 6A Patch Is Not Thinning
  7. 7Why Pattern Loss Happens — and Why It Is Not a Testosterone Problem
  8. 8Thinner, or Gone? What the Window Actually Depends On
  9. 9The Pill You Already Take
  10. 10On Thyroid Medicine and Still Shedding
  11. 11The Numbers Behind the Word "Normal"
  12. 12The Supplements That Can Make It Worse
  13. 13Weight, Smoke, Tension: What the Evidence Actually Supports
  14. 14Ten Minutes: What to Say, What to Bring, and What to Do If You Are Dismissed

Appendix A: The Ten-Minute Appointment Page. Appendix B: The Test Names, As a US Lab Orders Them. Appendix C: What We Could Not Verify. Appendix D: Check Me — Every Source.

The Follicle Field Guide to Treatments — the referee 277 pages · 16 chapters
  1. 1How to Read This Book, and How to Check Me
  2. 2What "Works" Means, and the Clocks That Decide Everything
  3. 3The Label on the Box You Already Own
  4. 4Finasteride, in the Words of Its Own Label
  5. 5Dutasteride and the Rest of the Off-Label Shelf
  6. 6The Blood-Pressure Pill, Told Straight
  7. 7Spironolactone, and Why the Reassuring Numbers Are Not About You
  8. 8Compounded Topicals and the 2025 Alert
  9. 9The Shampoo Chapter, Honestly
  10. 10What the Rosemary Study Actually Found
  11. 11Devices and Procedures: What Each Costs and What the Evidence Shows
  12. 12How You Actually Use These Things
  13. 13The Side Effects Nobody Mentions Until You Have Them
  14. 14Menopause: What Is Established, and What Is Not
  15. 15Twelve Months, Measured
  16. 16Still in Dispute, and What We Could Not Verify

Appendix A: The Treatment Comparison Table. Appendix B: The Words They Use. Appendix C: What We Could Not Verify. Appendix D: Check Me — Every Source.

Bought separately at their own checkouts, the two guides are $74. The Kit is $97, so the printable set costs $23. We are not going to invent a "value" for paper we do not sell on its own.

For comparison, all checked in August 2026 and none of it sold by us: a hair supplement subscription at $79 a month, which one industry site publishes as $948 a year; a telehealth growth bundle at $186 a month on subscription; a first visit that no practice publishes nationally, where Medicare's 2024 data has doctors billing an average of $267 and $411 for the two common new-patient levels; ferritin, vitamin D and TSH out of pocket at $181; one PRP session at $200 to $2,200. One informational competitor states on its own sales page that the average member spends $85 a month on their hair — about $1,020 a year — before knowing which kind of loss they have.

What a field guide does here: it narrows the likely causes and helps you take them to somebody who can examine you. It does not tell you what you have. Nobody can name your kind of hair loss from a page, from a photograph or from a mirror — that takes an examination, sometimes a dermatoscope, and sometimes a biopsy. Read the warning-signs page first. Then use this guide to arrive prepared, not to arrive convinced.

Who wrote it: nobody with a title to sell you. This is published under The Follicle Field Guide imprint, and no clinical credentials are claimed for its authorship. Its authority is the sources it cites — FDA-approved product labeling, the NCBI Bookshelf, American Academy of Dermatology guidance and peer-reviewed dermatology journals — each named with its year so that you, or your clinician, can look it up. It was researched and written with the help of AI tools, working from those primary sources. That is stated inside the books too.

Three questions, three chapters, and the sheet each one produces

What each of these actually decides

Three of the thirty chapters the Kit contains. The source under each one is the point: it is what you are buying.

"I don't know which kind I have, and I've been treating the wrong one."

The Follicle Field Guide · Chapter 4: Read the Pattern

Frontotemporal recession with thinning at the crown. A part that widens with the front hairline intact. Loss spread evenly across the whole scalp. The differential table sorts five families by speed, distribution, symptoms, whether the follicular openings are still there, and how urgently each one needs to be seen. It decides which two or three are plausibly yours — and which one belongs to somebody with a dermatoscope, not to a bottle of foam. Chapter 2 comes first and settles the other half of the question: shedding and losing are two different things (American Academy of Dermatology).

The sheet it produces: D · Ten-Minute Appointment Script — the opening sentence and the list to hand over.

"What blood tests do I even ask for? And what does 'normal' mean?"

The Follicle Field Guide · Chapter 11: The Numbers Behind the Word "Normal" (with Appendix B)

Ferritin is the central unsettled dispute in this subject, and the guide prints both sides with their sample sizes and their years: authors proposing hair-relevant targets around 50 and 70 (Guo and Katta, Dermatology Practical & Conceptual, 2017) against work that found no significant increase in iron deficiency in women with hair loss (Olsen, JAAD, 2010, 381 women and 76 controls). No randomized trial shows that raising ferritin grows hair, and the chapter says so. What it gives you instead is the thing that survives the dispute: ask for the number, not the word "normal" — and Appendix B has the test names written exactly as a US lab orders them.

The sheet it produces: A · Lab-Request and Results — with the disputed thresholds printed on the page.

"Is minoxidil a treatment or a mortgage? And why didn't it work for me?"

The Follicle Field Guide to Treatments · Chapter 3: The Label on the Box You Already Own

The over-the-counter minoxidil Drug Facts label, read line by line. Four of its own "do not use" statements describe a large part of this audience: you are a woman, your hair loss is on the front of the scalp, it is sudden and/or patchy, or you do not know the reason for it. The same label says you may need at least four months before results, that using more or more often will not improve them, and that continued use is necessary to keep any regrowth or hair loss will begin again. That last sentence is on the carton in your bathroom. It is from the FDA-approved labeling, not from us.

The sheet it produces: C · Twelve-Month Record — the photo protocol and the dated review points, so a year is measured instead of remembered.

Three of the thirty chapters. Every one of them prints its sources where you can see them, and both books end with an appendix listing what we could not verify.

See a clinician promptly if any of these apply to you.

These are not reasons to panic. They are reasons not to wait, and not to spend the next six months on a shampoo.

  1. Your hair loss came on suddenly, over days or a few weeks, rather than gradually over years.
  2. Your hair is coming out in patches — round or oval bald spots, or patches in your beard, eyebrows or eyelashes.
  3. Do not waitThe skin in the thinning area itches, burns, hurts, is scaly or red, or looks smooth and shiny with no visible pores. This is the one that cannot wait. Some kinds of hair loss scar the follicle, and scarred follicles do not come back. Dermatology reviews describe scarring alopecias as urgent conditions, because delays in starting treatment can make the outcome worse. If your scalp hurts or your hairline is receding in a band, and especially if you are also losing eyebrow hair, ask for an appointment now and ask specifically about scarring alopecia.
  4. You do not know why your hair is falling out. This is not us being dramatic — it is on the over-the-counter minoxidil label, which tells you not to use the product if "you do not know the reason for your hair loss."
  5. Your hair loss is in the front of your scalp, or the pattern does not match the diagrams on the minoxidil carton. That is also a "do not use" on the label.
  6. Hair loss with other symptoms: unexplained fatigue, unexplained weight change, new joint pain, a rash, fever, heavy periods, or feeling cold all the time. Hair is sometimes the visible part of something systemic.
  7. You are shedding heavily and you are pregnant, recently postpartum, or breastfeeding.
  8. You started, stopped or changed a medication in the last few months. Bring the list. Do not change anything first.
  9. You are losing hair and you take a medication that requires monitoring — a blood thinner, thyroid hormone, lithium, an antiseizure medication. The conversation is with your prescriber.
  10. Any bald patch that is growing, or any hair loss that is accelerating. Earlier is better.

If any of these describe you, close this page and ask for an appointment. The guide will still be here afterwards, and it will be more useful to you once somebody has looked.

$97

The Follicle Field Kit · both guides plus 13 printable sheets · 583 printed pages · three PDFs by email

Get the Field Kit — $97

One payment, one time. No subscription, no renewal, no account to cancel and no card kept on file. Educational material only — not medical advice, not a diagnosis, and not a substitute for care from a licensed clinician.

Our terms, in full

The Source-Check Promise

Every claim in this guide is tied to a named source with a date, and where the research disagrees we print both sides. Find a factual claim with no source behind it — or finish the guide and feel it did not help you narrow down what is likely going on with your own hair, or walk into an appointment no better prepared than you were before — and write to us within 60 days and we will refund you in full. Two things are promised here, and they are the two things we control: how this guide is sourced, and your money back. Nothing here promises a single hair. No product can, and anyone telling you otherwise is selling you something.

To use it, write to mysteriesmediallc@gmail.com within 60 days of your purchase.

Prices are one-time payments in US dollars. Nothing on this page renews. The Kit is the whole of what we publish: there is nothing above it and nothing after it to buy.