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Old 10-27-2004, 10:22 PM  
tical
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Your diet has nothing to do with hair loss... carbonated drinks, hats, all that stuff is bullshit.

Every man in here will start to go bald at some point in there life, the severity and point in time it starts all depends on your genes.

The male androgenic hormone DHT binds to your hair follicle receptors and begins to restrict blood flow to your follicle... depriving them of blood & oxygen. Eventually they die and no more hair will grow.

This is because the lack of bloodflow, oxygen and nutrients to the follicle keep it from producing the quality hair you were used to. There are phases your hair will go through, from thick, thin, thinner, etc to no more hair.

Finasteride (propecia, proscar), rogaine, shampoos, etc are all anti-androgen (DHT blockers) in some form. Topical or oral... it's the only thing that can slow it down.

But depriving yourself of DHT can result in lower libido and erectile disfunction. Yay.

Of course there is the hair transplants of your own real hair (from areas of your head that aren't harmed by DHT).. but this requires donor hair. If you're real bald the end result will most likely be a very very thin head of hair.

Hair cloning is in the works and I think is already being done in Mexico, but it's still in the works. In a few years i'm willing to bet there will be some good options available.

I'd just go with 1mg finasteride everyday to slow it down and possibly regrow some back... but once you stop it's gonna continue falling out.
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