2018-06-18 06:20:142018-06-21 06:17:47Can I Use Body Hair to Transplant into a Depleted Donor Area (Photo)?
Heading to a Norwood 7, feel hopeless!
I’m on finasteride, but if he’s a Norwood 7 then I will never be able to get my hair back via a hair transplant so I would need something better then a hair transplant.
I keep focusing on the Personalized Master Plan which is geared to keep hair on your head no matter what. That can happen with almost anyone, but you have to get a good, reliable, honest doctor who you can trust to build the plan for you. There have been very few men that I could not achieve this goal with.
2020-12-16 03:21:562020-12-16 10:16:13Heading to a Norwood 7, feel hopeless!
Can you comment on: “Why Most People Should NOT Have A Follicular Unit Extraction”
Follicular Unit Excision (new name) was pioneered by me in the mid to late 1990s. I published the first article in the world on this surgery in 2002. This is a great surgery if the surgeon knows how to do it. Fortunately today, there are many surgeons who have mastered it; however, there is a limit as to how many grafts a person can have with FUE without developing a see-through donor area. I have published the answer to this on my website here: https://newhair.com/resources/#tab-id-4
2019-07-02 04:37:192019-02-25 07:37:39Can you comment on: “Why Most People Should NOT Have A Follicular Unit Extraction”
Not Hair Loss News – Energy Drinks Increase Blood Pressure and Produce Changes in EKG
Snippet from the article:
The group aimed to see how energy drinks affect heart health, given that these drinks, along with dietary supplements, are not regulated as stringently as new drugs that must meet Food and Drug Administration (FDA) safety requirements, Shah said.
In a literature search, they identified seven observational and interventional trials that evaluated the impact of energy drinks on QT interval, blood pressure, and heart rate.
Three studies with a pooled sample of 93 subjects had QT/QTc data. Six studies with a pooled sample of 132 subjects had blood-pressure data, and seven studies investigated heart rate.
The patients, who were all young (aged 18 to 45) and healthy, underwent ECG and blood-pressure testing before and just after drinking one to three cans of energy drink—most commonly Red Bull, but also others such as Full Throttle and Meltdown RTD. An 8.4-oz can of Red Bull contains 80 mg of caffeine, compared with 35 mg of caffeine in a 12-oz Coke or about 100 mg of caffeine in an average cup of coffee, Shah said.
Read the rest — Energy drinks may prolong QT interval, raise BP
It’s not hair loss related, but it’s worth a post…
This is a study by Dr Sachin Shah, presented at the American Heart Association Nutrition, Physical Activity and Metabolism / Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention (AHA EPI-NPAM) 2013 Scientific Sessions.
According to the report, the increase buzz may be the result of caffeine alone, but the changes in the EKG has not been explained and the relevance of it is not clear.
Can you predict a final hair loss pattern?
Is it true that a trained doctor or professional can predict an someone final hair loss pattern?
Not 100%, however using family history, timing your appearance of balding (when you started), how fast it is moving, miniaturization analysis and most important if you have a significant amount of hair get a HAIRCHECK test (https://baldingblog.com/haircheck-test-how-it-is-done-video/), then I might be reasonably confident I could advise you on your final balding pattern, especially if you are over 25 years of age.
2020-03-27 03:40:252020-03-27 09:52:12Can you predict a final hair loss pattern?
Not Hair Loss News — Stem Cells Can Reverse Brain Damage from Stroke
Snippet from the article:
People who received the world’s first stem cell treatment for strokes have shown measurable reductions in disability and handicap a year after the injection into their damaged brains.
Some can move limbs and manage everyday tasks that were impossible before they received an injection of neural progenitor stem cells, which were clones of cells originally taken from the cortex of a donated fetus.
Apart from physical rehabilitation, there are few treatments for people left severely disabled by a stroke. Demand for more options is high, with 800,000 new cases each year in the US and 150,000 in the UK.
Read the rest — First stem cell trial for stroke shows lasting benefits
Results were presented from 11 people disabled by stroke that were given injections of stem cells. This announcement was made in Nice, France at the European Stroke Conference last week, and it shows the power of stem cells in treating damaged organs.
We have seen remarkable benefits from stem cells after a heart attack where these cells changed into muscle cells to help the heart handle its output load. The future here is very bright! Who knows, one day we may even be able to create hair!
2014-05-23 12:01:272014-05-22 12:12:41Not Hair Loss News — Stem Cells Can Reverse Brain Damage from Stroke
Cannabis and finasteride may produce Erectile Dysfunction
https://www.mdlinx.com/article/1e6b2latTgUvynuzKJXaOd?utm_campaign=Day1_AM_IM070321&tag=Morning&ipost_environment=m3usainc&utm_source=iPost&utm_medium=email&iqs=9z2z8jeqpll7anqtdo6g6gd4h7o3s9dq9ctnvca36i0
A hair transplant doctor I know has noticed that some of her finasteride patients who started taking cannabis, has seen ED appearing. The article states: “What’s good for the goose may be bad for the gander. Specifically, marijuana use may cause erectile dysfunction in men. Of note, erectile dysfunction is the most frequent male sexual disorder.” For men on finasteride and who are using marijuana and have sexual side effects, maybe there is a link that potentiates the ED in finasteride users.
2021-07-07 10:55:392021-07-07 10:56:46Cannabis and finasteride may produce Erectile Dysfunction
I noticed 2 and 3 hair grafts in my frontal hairline and my hairline looks pluggy (photo)
The placement of two or three hair grafts in the frontal hairline is something that should not be done because it makes the hairline detectable and somewhat pluggy. To make matters worse, this patient had the hair on the right side pointed in the wrong direction. What you need is a no-hairline hairline, something I discuss often. This can be corrected as it was in this patient (before on the left and after correction on the right) as shown in the photo repair. Best not to go through a repair and get it done right the first time.
2017-09-15 08:31:392017-09-15 08:32:42I noticed 2 and 3 hair grafts in my frontal hairline and my hairline looks pluggy (photo)
CB-03-01 Anti-Androgen — Is It a Future Hair Loss Treatment?
Hello, Doc. I found a study about a future topical antiandrogen that appears to fight baldness.
This is the link: Cosmo reports exciting results in P.O.C. alopecia study
Do you see this treatment as a potential option in a not so distant future?
Thanks for keeping us informed through this great blog.
If you understand a basic fact about hair loss, it’s really quite simple: Blocking the impact of androgens at the hair level will favorably impact hair loss. It could be a promising direction, but at this time good data is not in hand, so an anti-androgen cream is not a proven solution for the hair loss problem.
The link you sent is for a press release from Cosmo Pharmaceuticals of Italy, which boasts “exciting results” to get readers interested, but in reality this is just announcing that a proof of concept trial has concluded for something called CB-03-01 on 40 men and 30 women over the course of a month.
The studies and products you and I find on the Internet are usually not new or groundbreaking, though they might sound promising. Both doctors and patients hope the next great hair loss treatment is right around the corner, but we will have to wait for good science to be presented to us before getting too excited about this as a future option. There’s a lot of hurdles it would need to cross before making it to market.
NW 6 pattern stopped totally by finasteride for a long time (10 years)?
Hi, I´m 20 years old. I´m using finasteride since two years and I
have a NW 6 pattern (Hair miniaturized on hairline, top and crown).
I´m sure that finasteride help me in this two years because my hair
is more consistent but I know that I am going to lose my hair
progressively. My question is if you know any case of a NW 6 pattern
who had started his treatment early and finasteride give him results
for a long time (10 years). I need some hope but I want the truth.
Thanks. Regards. Sorry for my english.
I have not seen a complete reversal of hair loss on Propecia on a Class 6 or 7 male your age. Mainly male pattern balding or androgenic alopecia is a genetic condition. When it shows up in the late teens or early 20s, the process is usually more rapid. The drug Propecia (finasteride) with or without Minoxidil may slow down the loss but they will not stop the inevitable pattern from evolving. Surgery can address the balding by moving hairs around to the balding areas but if your pattern is a Norwood 6 or 7 pattern, complete coverage may not be a reasonable goal for hair transplantation.