[IshGibbor]

(09-01-2010 09:59 AM)thekiller Wrote:  

(09-01-2010 09:54 AM)IshGibbor Wrote:  

I noticed my hair is thinning a bit on the crown of my head. My brother who is younger then me by two years already has a huge patch missing in that area. I am still going strong though (chalk it up to my diet, exercise and supplements). I will be hopping on the Rogaine bandwagon though. Do you apply that stuff all over your head or just in the areas where your hair is thinning?

Ish Gibbor

There's enough in the standard dropper for your whole head, I'd just spend a little extra time massaging it into your problem area. Btw, Rogaine works best on the crown area, not as well on the hairline.

That's where my problem area is. Thanks for the information.

Ish Gibbor

[IshGibbor]

(08-26-2010 10:58 AM)Rocco81 Wrote:  

A few things here.

- Hopefuly your hair loss with stop or atleast slow down. I know around 23 or so my hairline squared off in the front a little and I was real worried...then miraculously it just sort of stopped for the next 7-8 a years then I noticed a little more but again it stopped. I guess it goes in stages . I noticed around 30 I started get a little spot in the back of my head that was showing. It def affected me a little, but just deal with it is all I can say. Also for me, back in the day I hit the juice a little (experimental in college) and that def. caused a little jump in hair loss...(anabolics will not just create baldness, but if you are predisposed to losing your hair then it will def speed it up) I still have pleny of hair, but I'm aware enough of the spot that I keep my hair short. I notice most women prefer this. They can still see your hair color and texture and if you are going bald and taking a razor to your head you are not fooling anyone anyways. The whole bick thing was new at first but now every guy you see with it, you just know he is bald so it sends the same message. What is the very worst though is the guys that are very bald and try to grow a long patch of hair and comb it over to cover the baldness...that is just whack.

- I really do not know if lifestyle habits are causing your troubles. I am sure they aren't helping, but you could also be a non drinker, who eats clean and exercises daily with perfect 8 hour sleep regiminin and still go bald. Its weather or not your scalp has a sensitivity to DHT, simple as that. In fact if you are in Prime health with optimized Testosterone levels, and you are predisposed to balding I think it may happen quicker rather than later. Of course I have seen temporary bald spots in people who are very very stressed, (after heart surgery, death in the family, divorce, POW's) but they tend to

- You want something that might help you block DHT (Dehydrotestosterone) at your scalp level. You DO NOT want to eliminate DHT from your body. DHT is responsible for harderning and density of muscles as well as sexual arousal. If you eliminated DHT as you are suggesting , then your muscles would become softer and your sex drive would start to wain.

You need DHT.

- Good news is there are a few women that actually like a little baldness, most others do not really care, and of course there are some that hate it. But look at guys like Sean Connery who is still voted one of the most handsome men in the world (despite bieng like what, 75 and bald) guys like Bruce Willis, Jordan, etc. Just do you man and try not to stress it.

Are there any pills/vitamins that stop hair loss that don't block the production of DHT in the body?

I looked up Procerin Tablets but noticed that it specifically formulated to block the production of DHT.

Ish Gibbor

[metalhaze]

Dont take pills that block DHT (i.e. propecia) it can really affect and harm your libido/sex drive.

I have a receding hairline that is quite obvious and the way I deal with it is that I shave my head...not to the skin but with a trimmer.
I trim it to 0.5 inches but I'm thinking in the future of going full bald with the HeadBlade. a close clean shaved head looks great on people who are dark skinned or have a strong tan. When you do that, use sun screen when you go out and it's sunny to protect your scalp and avoid blemishes.

I'm also tall with a round head which matches and gives me an intimidating look .

the positive side:
-you look more intimidating specially if you're buff (some women like this tough guy look)
-it fits well with a goatee , and let's you put more emphasis on your facial hair grooming (i.e. beard, goatee,variations etc...)
-I look younger than if I let my receding hairline show, this specially works well for men > 30
-it looks cleaner and more kept than if I let my receding hairline show

negative side:
-some women don't like men with extra short hair, but who cares, lots of women to go around. Being in top shape > head full of hair

however there are some product to use if you have a mild receeding hairline like me (for the moment). I use nisoral 1% to keep my scalp healthy and Dermmatch to cover the small bald spots ( it works wonders and is water resistant), try it.

Last but not least, if you are a candidate for FUE hairtransplant and you've got the money go for it, the technology has greatly improved with great results and minimal scarring!

[Rocco81]

@Metal: Propecia is expensive is the main downside. I know plenty of people on it and the chance of losing libido only happens in a very low % of them men taking it.

@Ish: I don't think Propecia completely blocks DHT production. I was answering the other poster who asked about completly shutting down DHT. You don't want to do that, but I think Propecia might lower it slightly or simply block DHT formation at the scalp.

[Ben Kenobi]

I always had thin hair and started going bald while in college. I've tried both Rogaine and Propecia and while it seems they may have slowed things down a little neither one stopped it from happening, much less regrew anything. I kept shaving my hair shorter and shorter until I started just shaving it completely off for the bald look about 6 years ago (I'm 29 now).

While I'd much rather have the option of a full head of hair, I've come to love having a shaved head. It requires little maintenance, you tend to stand out and I think most women range between not caring or loving it.

It helps that I have a pretty symmetrical head. In short, I'd recommend you start shaving it now and learn to love it since you will be bald eventually anyway, at least until someone comes up with some stem cells to cure baldness or something.

Being bald is only a problem if you make it one.

[bigbootyluvr]

it is genetic. Don't fight it. Here is what you CAN do, though. Get in the best possible shape you can. Hit the weights HARD if you aren't already. eat right, treat your body right. Being bald isn't a choice, but being in shape IS.

[tomtud]

Go on youtube and they are actually doing body hair to head transplants,,, so if you were to take chest hair, facial hair and cut it really short when transplanted to your head, it can actually look quite good. Check out the videos.

Some guys said excellent stuff, its mostly out of your control, why lose sleep over it. Society has put bald men a bit down. If the bald men grow some balls and tell the flat chested and flat ass women to fix their bodies, well maybe their opinions might change. Either way shaving it short or completely off looks good nowadays. Get a tan and lift some weights.

[Rocco81]

@ tomtud - I think those transplants look really bad don't they? I mean maybe it depends on the individual, but the few that I have seen before looked like little corn stalks or shoots of hair jutting up out of the scalp and didn't look natural at all.

To your second point, I don't think society has put bald men down as much until recently. Back in the day, when men had more balls nobody questioned if a man was balding, it was juts a masculine thing and that was way before people were shaving their heads to be "acceptable" This was back in the day when men kept the classic doughnut bald hair do.

I see it as another notch on the feminazi belt to attack anything that is uniquely male. Weather it be muscles, moustaches, balding, sex drive, etc. anything that is uniquely and inately masculine , the modern media attacks it in support of the more fag bot metro sexual male.

[tomtud]

Rocco I totally agree with your 3rd paragraph... There are plugs and there are transplants... The bad transplants you can really tell,,,, do a search on a doctor robert jones hair transplant.. check out the patient photos and you shall be impressed, I promise!

[InternationPlayboy]

Damn, I'm starting to have the same problem. 21 and I noticed my hair is starting to receed a little. When I was 21-22 my facial hair also started to turn a little grey in one area in particular, which is weird. I am super low stressed, with traveling and snowboarding for the last 3 years, I've had nothing to stress about. I guess it must just be genetic. I don't look good with facial hair anyways though, I just hope my hair doesn't start to receed anymore!! haha. But whatever, if it gets bad I suppose I'll just shave that shit and go with a new look.

[Rocco81]

@ Int'l: It is more or less Genetics. Normal stress doesn't create balding or greying in any real noticable way. Meaning regular 9-5 stresses...I mean it doesn't help but in general life stress is just another thing to shorten your life span in general, including blood pressure, depression, hair loss, stomach ulcers etc.

Sometimes you will hear cases of someone who has had a terribly life changing amount of stress (terminal illnesses, death of a family member, loss of job/house/lifestyle / time in prison) where a guy can go from full head of hair to bald or completely grey in short period of time, but that is in extreme cases where the stress is a real life changer.

[Luckystar]

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[metalhaze]

"Lastly, never wear hats. Loosens the follicles. Accelerates residing and hair loss."
That is not true and has been debunked many times. Ask any dermatologist, I did my homework.

[Rocco81]

@ metalhaze. What is FALSE is the old myth that hats alone cuased hair loss. The myth was that the ring of the had somehow created pressure or cut off blood flow and killed the follicles.

While hats do not cuase baldness there are things that can speed up balding. I can imagine if you had a tight fighting hat, it could create some friction or help the baldness happen quicker.

For instance a friend of mine had very long hair and while at work or out he would pull it back in a real tight pony tail. The Dr. told him that since he was already predisposed to baldness, the tight pony tail did speed up the baldness from the front of his head,sure enough in his early to mid 20's he had a 5 head pretty bad and the rest of his head had hair.

[Luckystar]

Rocco, you are right.

It's precisely what I meant. I have a good friend who had a pony tail, and he lost his hair very quickly shortly there after. Added stress to the follicles. My brother always has his gangsta cap on....and has started residing well before necessary. My dermatologist confirms that if you have a predisposition to hair loss, hats will accelerat hair loss.

I stopped wearing caps long time ago.

[little wing]

I seem to have a receding/uneven hairline since birth.
I just saw some pics of me as a young child and it already was uneven back then.
Is there anything I can actually do

[Kickb]

Get some black (or whatever color your hair is) hair spray and spray your head into the hair line that you want.

[Nineteen84]

(10-16-2010 05:12 AM)bigbootyluvr Wrote:  

it is genetic. Don't fight it. Here is what you CAN do, though. Get in the best possible shape you can. Hit the weights HARD if you aren't already. eat right, treat your body right. Being bald isn't a choice, but being in shape IS.

I agree wholeheartedly. You can still look great and maintain your confidence if you look after your body - many bald(ing) guys have dimepieces on their arms.

Some of you mentioned DHT - google 'nizoral dht'. It's an OTC (1%) or prescription (2%) shampoo that seems to inhibit it at scalp level and also prevents inflamation which contributes to hairloss. They are not 100% sure of the mechanism of action apparently.

[Tytalus]

This hair company

http://ca.finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=BL...undefined;

Apparently the treatment works and you used to be able to get it in Colombia, it's now going to be in the US in a few years. The drug was originally designed for a very specific niche psyc market: People who compulsively pull their hair out. Since a pill to make someone stop doing just that is just about impossible... The drug designers decided to make the hair roots so strong the hair could NOT be pulled out.

Yes. And then someone said "wait a sec, what if we gave this to bald guys?" Well. Apparently bald guys (like me, quite bald at 29, it sucks, but that's life) still grow hair all the time. It just falls out too soon, so this drug is a decent shot at the issue.

[WanderingSoul]

Look like Vin Diesel, not like Moby.

[shreyas24]

(08-26-2010 10:29 AM)youngmobileglobal Wrote:  

It's my 24th birthday and I am a bit dismayed to have noticed for the first time that my hair is receding at the temples. Also my hair has been falling out quicker than usual.

I assume some guys on this forum have dealt with this or are currently dealing with it.

Any suggestions besides shaving it off and accepting old age?

Apparently a lot of my lifestyle habits are causing the ideal environment for hair loss: drinking, strange sleeping habits, washing hair with soap instead of shampoo, consistently forgetting to take my multivitamin.

I hear green tea is supposed to be good:

"Green tea is used as a method to stop or prevent male pattern baldness. This type of baldness or hair loss can be stopped with green tea by blocking the production of DHT. Green tea can be taken as a beverage or it can be taken in a supplement form."

Anyone have any thoughts or suggestions?

Hair loss or hair falling is not symptom of old age. But due to several factors it happens, so its better to consult the best dermatologist in your city.

[DetlefMourning]

(08-26-2010 10:29 AM)youngmobileglobal Wrote:  

It's my 24th birthday and I am a bit dismayed to have noticed for the first time that my hair is receding at the temples. Also my hair has been falling out quicker than usual.

I assume some guys on this forum have dealt with this or are currently dealing with it.

Any suggestions besides shaving it off and accepting old age?

Apparently a lot of my lifestyle habits are causing the ideal environment for hair loss: drinking, strange sleeping habits, washing hair with soap instead of shampoo, consistently forgetting to take my multivitamin.

I hear green tea is supposed to be good:

"Green tea is used as a method to stop or prevent male pattern baldness. This type of baldness or hair loss can be stopped with green tea by blocking the production of DHT. Green tea can be taken as a beverage or it can be taken in a supplement form."

Anyone have any thoughts or suggestions?

Hair less is genetic. Things like green tea and certain types of shampoo will only help things at the margins, maybe slow it down ever so slightly. It will not make the difference between having a full, thick head of hair and the typical horseshoe male pattern baldness.

You have three options: hair transplant procedure, taking a drug like propecia, or just accept and deal with it.

Hair transplants leave very visible scarring, and if not done properly, since you have male pattern baldness, hair will continue to fall out behind the implanted follicles. When I first noticed my hair loss, my doctor put me on propecia. It takes anywhere from 8-12 months of being on the drug before you notice any progress. At the 4 month mark, I started having great difficulty achieving and maintaining an erection. So I figured preserving what was left of my hairline was not worth impotence. Not all guys on propecia suffer the same adverse sexual side effects as I did. But at least for me it wasn't a viable option.

I ultimately chose Option 3, to just start buzzing my head with a #1 clipper and get into much better shape. My friends say I look younger now than I did in my twenties and I went from Phillip Seymour Hoffman to Jason Statham. I think they are being too kind but I appreciate the sentiment.

You tell me what might appeal more to women:

[DetlefMourning]

sorry double post.

[TheSlayer]

I have heard good things about propecia. I have also heard about the side effects about potentially losing your boner but I know a couple of guys who are on it and they say nothing's changed. If you start early with propecia the point is to simply maintain the hair you have. If you have already lost a lot of hair then transplant is the only real option.

[Fighting888]

Nioxin is very effective.

Try it.

http://www.amazon.com/Nioxin-Hair-Booste...KCRMDCVESH