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Vitamin D Deficiency, Should I Still Take Finasteride?

I got my blood test results and found out that my vitamin D was very low, my doctor said this could have lead to my excess shedding. Now knowing this info I’ve been taking fin for little over a week now and was wondering if I should stop taking it or be taking it just in case?

Should I just take vitamin d or take vitamin d and fin?

Does your balding reflect the genetics (Norwood type) or is it diffuse? If it is the genetic type, then even the Vitamin D deficiency might not reverse the hair loss.


2020-04-28 16:34:08Vitamin D Deficiency, Should I Still Take Finasteride?

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Happy Holidays from BaldingBlog!

It’s the holiday season, so we’re off today to be with family and friends. We’ll still post a few times a day for the rest of the week, and things will pick back up to the normal amount of posts on January 2nd.

Here’s hoping everyone a happy and safe Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, or whatever it may be that you’re celebrating.

Happy Holidays!

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Water and Hair Loss

I am curious to know whether water would be an issue in hair loss. I am currently in Spain. I have been here since September and am not coming back to the states till August. I recently started taking generic finasteride at the beggining of this month should I be concerned about water and its pertinence towards hair loss, as well would the 5mg generic finasteride have exactly the same ingredients as the propecia?

Unless there is something I do not know about the water in Spain, it should not be a cause of hair loss.

Generic finasteride in 5mg strength is FIVE times more potent than Propecia, which contain 1mg of finasteride. Thus, if you are using finasteride in 5mg strength you should cut it (ideally in 5 pieces, but realistically in 4 pieces) to make 1mg of finasteride. Taking 5mg finasteride at once is NOT more effective than taking 1mg of finasteride for treating hair loss. In fact, you may have an increase in the incidence of side effects.

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Harris SAFE System

Do you have an opinion of Dr. James Harris and the Harris Safe System located in Colorado? Thank you.

His method of doing follicular unit extraction (FUE), which he calls the Surgically Advanced Follicular Extraction / SAFE, works well in his hands. Dr Harris is a creative person and a competent hair surgeon.


2008-12-15 15:00:06Harris SAFE System

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Welcome New Readers

Welcome New York Magazine readers!

I wasn’t told ahead of time that this blog would be mentioned in the October 17, 2005 issue of New York Magazine (and on nymetro.com), but what a nice surprise it was. The small article, “McConaughey’s Miracle Hair”, references a post I made several months back about Regenix and my speculation about the hairline of actor Matthew McConaughey. You can find my original post here.

For the benefit of our increased reader base, here’s a quick recap of what this blog is all about. BaldingBlog.com is updated multiple times every weekday (and sometimes on weekends) with questions submitted by the readers and answered by New Hair Institute founder, Dr. William Rassman. In just 6 months, this site already contains over 400 of your questions answered! If you have a hair loss / hair transplantation question you’d like answered on this site, please send me a note via the Contact page.

Thank you for visiting!


2005-10-12 10:01:42Welcome New Readers

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I Hate My Widows Peak

i shave my widows peak every other day i really do not like it. what will happen to me in the future and is it fine if i keep shaving it everyday? what should i do help. also if i try growing it back it looks very ugly what should i do?

If you don’t like your widows peak, I suppose you can shave it (as you are doing now). In the long term, you will have to continue to shave it since shaving is not permanent. I have seen some patients laser off the widows peak. I have also seen someone who lasered off the widows peak and regretting their decision later on in life. That person came to see me for a hair transplant to get their widows peak back. My wife had a widow’s peak and she hated it and she was thinning in the corners. We transplanted her corners and lowered the hairline enough to incorporate the widow’s peak. She is now very happy with a lower, more rounded hairline as she had when she was younger. No more widow’s peak.

The widow’s peak is never present in very young children. As aging starts, at any age above 5 or 6, if the hairline rises, it may leave behind a midline, pointed tuft of hair which is what we call the widow’s peak. The point on the widow’s peak is always located at the highest wrinkle of the furrowed brow. So the presence of a widow’s peak (a poor term) reflect the point where the hairline was, and the area around it reflects a faded youthful hairline. 83% of women over the age of 40, have a widow’s peak which means that their overall hairline has moved upward, enlarging their forehead, something that most women dislike. When I tried to find famous women who kept their juvnile hairline, it was not east considering that 83% have hairline loss; however, Catherine Zeta Jones was more the exception, see here: I believe that this hairline is exactly where it was when she was 8 years old.
Catherine-Zeta-Jones-Wallpaper _99_

Another beautiful actress who shows her widow’s peak along with the evident recession of the hairline on the sides of the widow’s peak, leaving the widow’s peak as the last remnant of where the midline hairline was. The hair is combed over the right side only showing the left.
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What are the risks for women who use Rogaine?

The single biggest risk is the appearance of hair elsewhere on the body, like facial hair. If the Rogaine (Minoxidil) gets absorbed by the body, it can stimulate vellus hairs to turn into more visible hair in the areas of the mustache, beard area, etc.. A female relative of mine who was given minoxidil for hair loss developed a mustache and a beard and she was very upset over this complication. Of course, when she stopped the medication, the facial hair went away.


2019-03-09 10:38:09What are the risks for women who use Rogaine?

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Having Blood Work Done Before and During Propecia Use?

A comment received from the recent post about Propecia and free testosterone levels –

doctor…as an athlete, this is something about propecia which interests me greatly – but there just doesn’t seem to be enough information available about it.

Would there be anything to stop doctors like yourself taking bloodwork of patients before and during finasteride use so that you (as someone in a position who sees finasteride users daily) could report back to us – so we could make informed decisions taking into account not only our hair, but other matters also of interest to us like hormone levels?

Would really appreciate a response. Thanks.

This can be done, but insurance may not cover these tests. If someone wants to pay for the tests out of pocket, it would be in the hundreds or even thousands of dollars. And even if these tests were free, what would we do with the results? What significance or interpretations would come from the tests?

If you look in the literature, I am sure there have been similar studies done before Propecia or finasteride was approved by the FDA. You need to know what you’re looking for before searching for data points.