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Reader Says He Discovered the Hair Transplant Miracle-Gro!

Hello! I’m a 55-yr-old guy who’s had several HT procedures over the past 20 years. My last two were performed by different surgeons (both well-respected in this field), and both times I was surprised and delighted to note astounding growth of newly-grafted hair which I believe resulted from my coincidental use of a unique nutritional supplement. At six weeks following surgeries, I already had a solid half-inch crop of thick, colored new hairs which continued to grow like crazy. My current HT doc is starting a small trial with this supplement next week. Would you be interested in hearing about this? I think I accidentally discovered HT Miracle-Grow!

Sure, please keep me in the loop. I try to keep an open mind.

Update:
The person that sent me this email has told me that he’ll send me updates when he can, so I’ll post more information as it becomes available. In the meantime, take the above for what you will. Anyone want to wager a guess as to what this supplement could be?


2008-04-10 08:46:47Reader Says He Discovered the Hair Transplant Miracle-Gro!

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Does Couvre Cause Hair Loss?

Hi Dr. Rassman
Great site…thanks for helping out so many concerned men and women. I am a 42 year old male, with Norwood class III hair loss. I had 2 hair transplants about 10 years ago at the temples, and was happy with the results(they have taken me back to a norwood class I or II look). Now my hair is thinning more in the centre. I use a scalp covering paste (couvre) applied with a sponge, that does a great job of helping to cover the thinning area…but I am wondering if using this will cause my hair to fall out even more? Also, I read that most men slow down or stop their hair loss in their mid 40’s..my hair loss is starting to pick up again over the last year. Can I use products like minoxidil with products that colour the scalp?
Thanks for your help.

CouvreI highly doubt Couvre causes hair loss. You can use minoxidil with scalp coloring agents. For more on Couvre, see their site here.

I suspect you are losing hair due to general male pattern hair loss as it is a progressive process (something we do not like to admit). Hair loss should slow down as we age, but it still happens in men at all ages. There is no rule or exception if it is happening to you. You may consider seeing a doctor for a good diagnosis and you may be a good candidate for finasteride (Propecia/Proscar).


2007-08-31 13:33:50Does Couvre Cause Hair Loss?

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Recent hair loss acceleration

So I’ve recently been noticing my hair looks way thinner, and is much more oily (which probably makes it stick together and look thinner). My scalp shows way much more on the sides, and its just wierd, feels like I aged 5 years in a month. I’ve always been a heavy drinker, but things that can have an effect:

• Drinking more often
• Smoking ALOT more

•Using this Hemp shampoo, which is very oily (pretty sure this is the main cause)

Sounds like your stressed and stress tends to accelerate the hair loss process in men who have the genes for balding

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Does Estrogen Protect Women from Developing Male Pattern Hair Loss?

Doctor, I was thinking of something today. Females lose hair genetically too like female pattern baldness, but how come its not as common like men to lose hair? I mean there are females with bald fathers, grandfathers, uncles and brothers, but they never lose hair genetically?

If a man has so many bald relatives, there is a strong chance he will lose hair too, but the women tend to still keep their hair when the men in their family are all bald. Is it the estrogen that protects the hair?

There is no evidence that estrogen protects women from developing hair loss in the standard male patterns. The reason for female pattern baldness is not well understood.

Male pattern baldness is just what it says — it is a male problem and it occurs in patterns that can be visually seen, as graded on the Norwood scale. Women with genetic hair loss do not generally develop patterned balding, or if they do, the patterns do not usually follow the Norwood scale for men. Genetic hair loss in women, also called female androgenic alopecia, can at times be seen in a pattern that is graded on the Ludwig scale. Other times, the hair loss is diffuse.

Fortunately for men, finasteride is a good medication… but for women, the only decent medication is topical minoxidil.


2013-07-02 17:30:58Does Estrogen Protect Women from Developing Male Pattern Hair Loss?

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Reddit Reader Comments on a Baldingblog Post

The post he commented on is the following: https://baldingblog.com/new-report-that-finasteride-does-not-cause-sexual-side-effects/

Comment: This survey method is so flawed that its ‘findings’ are not just unhelpful, but actually misleading. It’s really quite simple actually.

They just surveyed a bunch of guys who had been taking Propecia for hair loss and compared it to presumably random guys who were not on Propecia. If you develop side effects from Propecia, which often happens fairly early on, you are going to stop the drug quickly. 85% of the guys surveyed had taken Propecia > 12 months so you can be sure they didn’t have side effects. Even the other 15% would have likely filtered out most of the guys with side effects.

That’s why the authors erroneously conclude finasteride use resulted in no connection to sexual dysfunction. Their own data doesn’t even show that. Their data shows the finasteride group had a lower incidence of sexual dysfunction but that is only after you naturally exclude people who quit due to side effects. To say this study is controversial would be to give it way too much credit. It’s just flawed.


2019-11-05 10:13:16Reddit Reader Comments on a Baldingblog Post

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Does finasteride lose effectiveness over time?

Some people say that finasteride looses effectiveness over time, some say 4 years while other say 10 years or even 15 years, is that the case usually ? Because I’M 24 with a NW2 and if I start finasteride now and have hair transplant and it looses its effectiveness in next 10 years when i’m 34 would that be a problem if the hair loss starts again ? and I’m aware that we have a limited donor hair

Finasteride remains effective over time. What changes is your balding pattern which progresses as you age. Without finasteride, it will progress faster.

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Does FUE permanently remove grafts for future procedures?

I have had FUE procedure 2 months ago and was thinking of having another for my beard. Was curious how long I’d have to wait before another one, and whether the back of my hair could be used again for my beard. I came across some articles that really concerned me, mainly about most people have a limited amount of grafts they could use in their lifetimes, usually around ~4-6k

Some remarks that I’ve read from doctors on this topic:

You can have many FUE procedures over your life time as long as you keep your total donor hair supply in mind. If your donor hair supply is 6000 grafts You can have six 1000 graft surgeries or three 2000 graft surgeries.

I really don’t understand the science of this works. The hair on my donor area is completely full now after 2 months. Is this in spite of some hair follicles permanently removed, and the full hair is due to remaining follicles after 2k grafts taken from there? I was under the impression that what was taken from the back would grow back. Is this not true?

FUE removes grafts from your permanent zone forever. You have a limit of donor graft supply and a good doctor will measure that limit and should quantify what your total available, lifetime graft supply will be. For many people, large FUE sessions will cause a balding, see-through donor area as shown here: https://baldingblog.com/collection-victim-photos-internet-harvested-depleted-donor-areas/ As you can see, either these men had incompetent operators, or greedy ones who left some of them balding forever in the back of the head. For the advanced balding patterns, strip surgery (called FUT) is a better option as well as for most women expect for those who have very small procedures.


2021-08-14 08:12:00Does FUE permanently remove grafts for future procedures?

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Removing SMP with a Laser?

A while back you mentioned a new SMP pigment that might be reversible with one laser treatment. Sorry if I missed your follow up on that. How did that turn out?

The pigment we use for Scalp MicroPigmentation (SMP) is reversible with laser pigment removal; however, it may require more than one treatment. There is also a risk for hair loss with the laser pigment removal.

A while back, we were made aware of an ink that was reportedly able to be removed with one laser treatment, but the company that produced the product apparently was sold and the ink hasn’t been made available.