Month: January 2023

This post comes from Dr. Richard Shiell:
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Dr Masumi Inaba, who wrote a book on Androgenetic Alopecia (Springer 1996), was firmly convinced that the increase in Western style animal fats was causing an increase in baldness in young Japanese males. I am not sure that his statistical method would stand rigid scrutiny however.

The same lack of good statistics applies to all the popularly believed “causes” of baldness. Forty years ago when I was a young HT surgeon, the patients all blamed the wearing of hats in the Army or Police Force as the cause of their baldness, when I am sure that it was just that they entered these institutions at the precise age that severe AGA usually kicks in (19-21 years old).

I certainly believed throughout my career that “gym-jocks” lost hair more quickly than their “lay-about” brothers and cousins. The problem is that many were taking steroids and other “dietary supplements” so it was a very confusing issue to ascertain causality.

I had one of a pair of 25 year old “identical” twins who had lost significantly more hair than the other. When I spoke to the more hirsute twin about it he laughed and said it was because his brother was married with a child and mortgage, and had more stress. So there you have undeniable evidence from a large series of ONE case!!

Hair loss is the results of many complex things. For example, dietary supplements like whey and a variety of branched amino acids including creatine, push up men’s testosterone levels (and their DHT levels), which in turn accelerate hair loss. We are what we eat, I just wish I understood all of the complexities of diet as it impacts the hair loss we see.

Surprisingly my hair transplanted grafts started to immediately grow after about two weeks. I still had crust on my head from the transplant and the hair started to peek through. I was doing my research intensively before that and haven’t found one with almost instant results as i did. I was told from my doctor that it could take up to a year to see the full effect. It definitely met my expectations but the other non transplanted hair isn’t immune to DHT so this could lead to dissatisfaction again in a couple of years.

Most hair appears to grow immediately, but falls out in 2-4 weeks. About 1 in 20 people get instant growth that continues from the day the transplant was done. Most are somewhere between the two examples I discussed above. As hair loss is a progressive process, you should consider another FUE and if you are satisfied with your surgeon, go back and see that surgeon for an opinion about another FUE.

Hair grows at different times in the growth cycle. At four months, some will be growing out, with more in the fifth and sixth months. This is why I tell my patients that the average person has 80% of the growth in eight months to a styling length of about one and a half inches. It varies with individuals, some earlier and some later. You clearly have growth now and it will only get better, longer, and thicker.

By law, only physicians are performing hair transplant surgery in the US and most European and Asian countries. Necrosis is a terrible complication of a hair transplant and necrosis reflects some lack of understanding of anesthesia and/or technique in the surgery. In the 16,000+ surgeries my group has done over the past 29 years, we never had a case of necrosis

I think that only a hair transplant or an unusual response to Finasteride can have this result. I have never seen Regenix produce these results. He does have the perfect hairline for a mature male.

What’s everyones thought on this Matthew Mconaughey & Regenix from tressless