Month: January 2023

If you haven’t tried finasteride, it is worth considering as it might reverse some of this thinning. If you add minoxidil the chances are even greater for a benefit without a hair transplant.

Finasteride works well in the crown in men over 45. A 71-year-old friend went on proscar for his prostate and regrew his hair in the front and in the crown. He bragged to me.

The crown often takes more hair than other areas of a similar size because the swirl is present in the crown and the hair changes direction. The swirl draws the eye to the scalp. A 4-inch area will take anywhere between 2000-3000 grafts, depending upon the thickness of your hair shafts. More coarse hair requires less grafts when compared to fine hair.

This is a beautiful skin closure, but it has a problem in that the hairs inside of these sutures are being strangulated and will probably die. This will then leave a scar the width of the suture line. What we do is (1) either use surgical stables which go far back from the wound and never strangle the hairs or (2) put very fine sutures (5-0 absorbable) within 1mm or less of the edge so that we make sure that the hairs are not in the suture pull. That minimizes the scar even further.

Using animals for organ donors have been tried for years, but cross species transplants have done very poorly over time. Now the use of CRISPER can tolerate organ donation much like Dolly the Sheep. Genetic material are used in pig cells in the early embryo and implanted in sows. The plan is to create pigs that have also been altered to make them more immunologically similar to people. In theory, this should mean transplanted organs are less prone to attack by a recipient’s immune system. This work is being done by Robin Weiss of University College London as reported in the New Scientist August 19, 2017 issue.

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Different strokes for different folks

College-aged rugby players taking creatine monohydrate supplementation for three weeks had their Testosterone and DHT measured. The results of these tests indicated a rise in DHT levels when using this supplement in their diet. A rise in DHT levels can accelerate, at least in theory, the hair loss seen in genetically balding patients.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/19741313/

Have you come across any studies which go on to show with considerable evidence that the bodybuilding supplement creatine can promote/speed up hair loss/mpb? There seems to be a lot of “broscience” when searching around, and I’d like to hear the thoughts of a professional.

Over the many years in this business, I have seen supplements that contain steroids (some labeled and some not labeled). I remember an article (didn’t save it) where the FDA caught some supplement company of putting steroids in with the Creatine, and not labeling it. They broke the law. Creatine, by itself, should not cause hair loss.