Category: Uncategorized

Posted on

Not- Hair Loss News – Three Glasses Of Milk/Day Can Be Harmful

Swedish researchers published an article in the British Journal of Medicine (October 2014) which showed that a “high intake of milk may be associated with higher mortality and fracture risks in women and higher mortality risk in men”.

61,433 women and 45,339 men (women 39-74, men ages 45-79) were followed during a medium of 22 years. They were asked about diet early in the study with questionnaires. 15,541 women died and 17,252 had fractures. during a 13 year follow-up, 10112

They analyzed outcomes from enrollment (from 1987 to 1990 for the women and January 1998 for the men) through December 2010. During a median of 22 years of follow-up, 15,541 women died and 17,252 women had a fracture. During a median of 13 years of follow-up, 10,112 of the men died and 5379 men had a fracture.

The harm came from drinking 3 or more glasses of milk per day. “The researchers found that women who drank three or more glasses (680 g) of milk a day had almost twice the risk for death compared with women who drank less than one glass a day (hazard ratio [HR], 1.93, 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.80 – 2.06). Women who drank more milk also had a higher risk for any type of fracture (HR, 1.16; 95% CI, 1.08 – 1.25) and for hip fracture specifically (HR, 1.60; 95% CI, 1.39 – 1.84).”

Although the researchers found that men who drank three or more glasses of milk had a slightly higher risk for death compared with those who drank less than one glass (HR, 1.10, 95% CI, 1.03 – 1.17), men did not have the excess risk for fracture seen in women.

Men did not see the high fracture rate thwt women experienced. Yogurt and cheese did not show higher risks for either death or fractures.

Further analysis of the men and women who had increased risk was not done.

Posted on

The Corners of My Hairline Are About 2 Inches High

Good afternoon Doctor! I just want to thank you for this site.

Im an 18 year old boy, and since i was around 17 my hairline changed into what it now is today. However I’m not sure where to class ito n the norwood scale. The frontal hairline is, like you say in the normal place, exactly half an inch above the furrowed brow, however my concern is asscociated with the corners of the hairline. From the highest wrinkle, if i place a tape measure to the furthest point of the corner of the hairline it measures around 2 inches.

My question is with a corner reccession like this, could i still be placed in the Norwood 2 section? Because if you look at the stage 2 of the Norwood scale, the measurements found on this site for the mature hairline don’t appear to fit with it. The front of the hairline and the corners appear to have a far greater gap than the ‘norm’ of 1 – 1.5 inches…..

And just as a last question, if i start on Propecia at this age, is there a chance i could keep this hairline for the rest of my life? I hope i’ve been clear in what i’m saying. THanks alot and i look forward to your reply.

I’d stop trying to categorize yourself into a particular Norwood class. Perhaps you are a class 2 or class 3, but I really do not know (photos might help). Are you measuring at an angle? Assuming you’re seeing 2 inches when measuring perfectly vertical from the brow to the corner, it sounds like it’s past the Norwood class 2 level. But it seems more like things are changing and evolving as you are maturing. You’re 18 years old, and a maturing hairline is definitely not uncommon at that age. The real issue is finding out if you are actually balding or not.

Before thinking about Propecia or putting yourself into a category, go see a doctor and get your scalp mapped out for miniaturization. If you are indeed thinning, Propecia may be an option to halt further loss.

Posted on

I Like Being Bald What’s The Big Deal

I am a 33 year old woman who has been completely bald (by choice) about eight times. I have been shaving my head since 2008, and my hair is usually about a number 1. I did not do this to raise money for cancer research, or anything similar. I shave my head because I love having short hair. I think it is very sad that so many people consider hair loss to be a bad thing, and spend ludicrous amounts of money just to have more hair.

I shave my head myself every week and spend about 30 cents a week on shampoo. I own a few beanies for Winter, and in Summer I never have that disgusting feeling of sweat-soaked hair.

Why have hair, when you can just shave it all off? I used to have beautiful long hair, but it is more fun to NOT have hair.

If you are worried about hair loss, you must have a very boring life!

Thank you for sharing your experience. I think bald can be beautiful too! But hair loss does bother many men and women and at least they have a choice to do something or nothing about it!

Posted on

The limits of hair graft calculators (from Reddit with comment by W. Rassman)

This is nice to see, however, it doesn’t take into account a few very important factors:

1- Your hair thickness (fine hair has 1/4 the value of coarse hair) so the calculations are different based upon hair thickness

2- Your hair density in the donor area: We are all different with different hair densities. The density reflects the donor bank so if you take out say 3000 grafts, and you only have 3000 to donate, then you have used up your reserve. A good doctor will tell you how much hair you have in your donor bank and as you use it, how much remains.

3- What can you expect in the future as hair loss is progressive. Today, for example, you have some frontal loss and you transplant it with 2000 grafts. In a few years maybe you have more frontal recession behind the area that was transplanted and you also develop some early crown loss. If you transplant these two areas, then maybe in time, the crown loss will become more and wider, what do you do then? Did you leave enough hair in the donor bank to manage future hair loss?

The hair transplant conundrum is not so simple as a graft calculator can easily solve. A good doctor who has experience, will address this for you and give you a realistic assessment of your short term and long term needs. I always tell my patients don’t think a year out, because balding is a lifetime problem.

HOW MANY GRAFTS Do You Need? Try this 30 Second GRAFT CALCULATOR! from tressless


2019-08-22 08:19:29The limits of hair graft calculators (from Reddit with comment by W. Rassman)

Posted on

Vigorous Transplant Growth with ACell?

Thank you for the information regarding the ACell trials and your own research at NHI. I noted that some of the published research indicated that ACell seemed to promote vigorous transplant growth when utilized in the recipient sites of traditional strip harvest grafts. I was wondering if NHI is researching this aspect of ACell or offering it as an option to your traditional strip or FUE patients.
Thanks again for the information you provide and for taking questions from the public.

We have not been using A Cell for traditional strip harvesting in the recipient area since it does not work. See update of our Acell research HERE.


2014-08-14 18:35:57Vigorous Transplant Growth with ACell?

Posted on

The story of discovering finasteride (girls became boys)

I knew this story and have told it many time. The population got the medication from a tubor that grew in the forest and which became part of their diet.

The case of the ex-girls

 

By ELENA CONIS
OCT. 16, 2006
12 AM

Little more than a decade ago, men afflicted with enlarged prostate glands — which can block urine’s flow and lead to dangerous infections — had essentially one treatment option: surgery. Now, drugs can often be used to reverse benign prostate enlargement. These so-called prostate pills are available thanks in no small part to a Caribbean population of pseudo-hermaphrodites.

In the early 1970s, Dr. Julianne Imperato-McGinley, an endocrinologist at Cornell Medical College, traveled to a remote mountain village in the Dominican Republic to study a group of children with a unique condition.

The sex of the children was ambiguous at birth, but to the best of the villagers’ knowledge they appeared to be girls, and so they were raised as such. But at puberty the girls’ baby fat gave way to muscle, their voices grew deep, testes descended and penises grew. The condition — which affected about 2% of the region’s children — earned the nickname guevedoces, or “penis at 12.”

The “girls” developed into adult men with all the expected physiological traits, save a few: The guevedoces men had minimal facial and body hair, unyielding hairlines and prostate glands that stayed unusually small. They also had low levels of the male sex hormone dihydrotestosterone (DHT), despite normal levels of testosterone.

Ultimately, Imperato-McGinley and colleagues traced the condition to a genetic mutation that caused low levels of the enzyme 5-alpha reductase, or 5AR.

Without 5AR, a body won’t make DHT. And without DHT, hair doesn’t sprout on the face, arms or legs, baldness stays at bay and the prostate doesn’t enlarge. (DHT levels are much higher in the prostate than they are anywhere else in the body.)

That last clinical feature of a 5AR deficiency caught the attention of scientists at pharmaceutical firm Merck & Co., shortly after Imperato-McGinley’s findings were made public. If 5AR’s absence kept the prostate small, they deduced, then perhaps getting rid of 5AR later in life could stop the prostate from becoming dangerously large, as it does in nearly 20% of men older than 55.

Sure enough, a drug to do just that was developed over the next 15 years. Finasteride, a 5AR-inhibitor that ties up 5AR so it can’t convert testosterone to DHT, was approved in 1992. A second 5AR inhibitor, dutasteride, was approved in 2002.

The 5AR-inhibitors are proving to have other important uses too. A study published in 2003 showed that prostate cancer prevalence was reduced by 24% in men who took finasteride compared with those who took a placebo. (For decades, scientists have known that hormones can play a role in signaling cancerous cells to grow.) Investigations are underway to determine if dutasteride (which is more active than finasteride) can reduce prostate cancer risk even further. Finasteride is also widely prescribed for halting male-pattern baldness.

The guevedoces, meanwhile — and populations like them in Turkey, New Guinea and elsewhere — continue to pique the interest of researchers. They’ve revealed dozens of mutations that can affect 5AR, but they’ve also been of interest to psychiatrists and sociologists struggling to tease out the interplay of hormones, environment and culture in gender identity.

Gender, the guevedoces appear to have proved, is not always black or white.

 


2019-10-24 10:48:17The story of discovering finasteride (girls became boys)

Posted on

Goodbye Wig! A Hair Transplant Repair Case (with Photos)

This patient came in last week, a few years after having 709 grafts taken from a very depleted donor area. Half of the grafts contained just one hair. Getting those 709 grafts was a challenge, as his scalp was tight and the donor area heavily scarred. Because of the anticipated poor yield, I elected to spread the grafts over an inch from the plugs (forward) creating a loosely built thin hairline. When he allows his hair to stand up rather than pull it back as shown here, the results are even more spectacular. This patient gave up his wig and is thrilled with his result. We will try to do another procedure with up to 700 grafts in the recipient area to thicken it, but that will be even more of a challenge because the scarring is very bad and the density of the donor area is very low and he knows it.

Many of what I will call the “normal transplant patients” we perform surgery on today who have not had the old type of plugs, may look at pictures like those shown here and get very frightened. I understand the fear that gets invoked by these patients, but some of my most satisfied patients are those who walked around for years and found that people never looked into their eyes, only to their hairline. This man is an example of a patient where just a small change had a major impact on his life, allowing him freedom from a wig he despised to cover a pluggy look he hated.

Click the photos below to enlarge.

Before:

 

After:

 

Posted on

How Many Grafts Would I Need? I Am 28 Years Old.

To determine the necessary number of grafts, I need a frontal picture with your hair pulled back and your eyebrows lifted high so that your forehead creases. This will show me the anatomic point that allows me to determine the proper position of the hair line. The estimate will vary with the thickness of your hair. You will require more grafts if your hair is fine and fewer grafts for if your hair is coarse. If I had to guess where the hairline is, I would expect to do 2500+ grafts with fine hair and possibly 1600 grafts with coarse hair.

how many grafts would I need

Posted on

What do you think of my hairline? I am now 4 months after the surgery (photo)

I think that your hairline has an unusual design. It has been built with distinct mounds that are not normally found. If you don’t like your hairline design, a another hair transplant built with a good transition zone will help fix this problem but be sure you find a doctor who can do this. I have discussed hairline design here: https://baldingblog.com/2017/08/31/take-look-transplants-think-photo/


2017-09-05 05:30:35What do you think of my hairline? I am now 4 months after the surgery (photo)