male health strut - hair loss
Rishan
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Advice needed please! There has got to be a few on here with some experience of this. I have only just turned 26, but for the past couple of years I've noticed more hair falling out during washing and drying, than I am entirely comfortable with. I still have a good head of dark hair don't get me wrong, but if this is the start of male pattern baldness, I would like to try and do something about it. Prevention is better than cure right?I have tried herbal shampoo and conditioner, scalp massage, hot oil treatment, and seen a few specialists, one of which I plan on starting their course. While they seem to slow the hair loss, I'm told I have an oily scalp with sebum build up and a high level of androgens, which prevent new hairs from growing in again.Should I go bald gracefully, or is there anything I can do? I'm not quite at the stage of cosmetic surgery or hair implants, thats a last resort that I'd rather avoid. I just really, really want to keep my hair for as long as possible!
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Really, what purpose is served by that stray fuzz scattered about his bald spot other than to look like ass hair on his head? You're not fooling anybody! Just shave that area clean and be proud of the real hair you have left, not some scraggly rat's nest glued to your cranium. Of just say fuck it all and shave it clean and be proud to be bald when the time comes. It worked for Michael Jordan and Lex Luthor!
Natural/herbal treatments is the way I want to go though, and I live in Malaysia where there are lots of old Chinese and Indian remedies. And they are a lot more affordable than in the west.
Not panicking yet because I know hair falls out naturally, but I'm going to catch it early just in case!
Mine's going as well, but whatever. I've been buzzing my head with a #1 clipper for the last 15 years anyway. My best advice is to hit the gym, so at least you'll be fit.
This is how I've done it. I inherited the balding gene from pops (don't believe this "you only inherit from your mother's side of the family b.s.) and my hair line has been falling back since the late '90s (at the very least). For a while, I kind of bugged out about it and there are treatments you can pursue to try slow shit down (Propecia, Rogaine, etc.) but at the end of the day - if I'm going to go bald, I'm just going to embrace it and keep it mad short (#1 blade).
Maybe, one day, they'll find a way to reverse balding. I've read a good deal about the science of it all and it does seem like a possibility in my lifetime but I'm not holding my breath. The only thing that kind of bugs me out is how my daughter will one day look at my pictures as a younger man and wonder, "gee Daddy, wtf happened to all your hair."
Everybody around me acts all sober
Lookin' poker faced
I started losing hair at the corners
Matter-of-fact, I looked up top
That whole border's jacked [/b]
Nobody's gonna chauffeur me anymore
Whatever this is, we all go through it I guess
It's just awkward
I'm not a hundred percent comfortable with
The rate that everything's developing at
It's just a little overwhelming at times
I'm dealing with hella shit to process
It's new data daily
There's really no preparing for this thing
Or, maybe it's mainly just me acting strangely
Just me facing the challenge
I doubt it though
'Cause I met thousands of people
Seen something similar in their faces
It's like the outlook is changing
I think it's called bein' a man in the making
i actually met this relatively famous dermatologist at Upenn who was responsible for hair regrowth in mice through some strange procedure where they "injure" the mice, and when it recovers, hair is regrown in the spot where it was injured. Ha. That is a poor explanation, but most of what he said went over my head. Anyway, he told me that the chances of a "cure" in humans based on this research is a minimum of 5 years away, and that is only for testing purposes. He also told me that everything on the market is pure snake oil, except for rogaine and propecia, which he said "actually work". i don't know. take that for what its worth.
I can safely say I'd rather it wasn't happening, but there are more important things to worry about in life. As for treatments? Well Trump is living proof that nothing works - if he can't afford to get a better looking doo, then what hope do us mere mortals have?
also, the longer your hair the more you will be able to see the scalp if you are thinning. so cut it shorter if you don't want to go the shaved head route.
I think he probably meant that they "actually work" to the extent that they might help you keep what you've got; once it's gone it's gone.
Yeah, this is key. You can't grow hair back once it's gone; the follicle is dead. Some of what scientists are working on are ways to restimulate those hair cells but again, we're still years away from a treatment that could do this with any efficacy.
Finasteride actually stimulates new growth but only works in about a third of cases.
Do Soulstrutters have tendencies to go "bald"
Does anyone have the soulglo song on mp3.
I trust my wife will tell me when enough is enough and I need to shave it all off.