Balding - Anyone tried these methods?

Solomon Pleasant

I'm 20 and I am thinning all over the top of my head. My hairline is still intact perfectly but the hair on top is gradually getting thinner and thinner.

I've spent some time trying to come up with possible solutions (possibly futile, I know) and I was wondering if any of you have tried any of the techniques mentioned in this video and had any success with them.

Is this a realistic way of stopping thinning hair or is the youtuber spoofing?

Wibbs

Sounds like bollocks to me SP. Eating very healthily will make a huge difference throughout your life, but reversing hair loss? Depends on the hair loss going on. It has many causes from what I can gather. Stress, local damage to the scalp, fungal infections and so on, but with thinning in men it's likely down to male pattern baldness. This seems to be largely genetic, where the hair cells are vulnerable to a type of testosterone and go into a permanent resting phase where the hair produced is in miniature, like on most of your body*.

This guy is 18, went through a bad breakup that broke his heart and he noticed his hair thinning. It may not have been, but in times of stress we can tend to be more observant even paranoid about such things. He eats well and that gives him a focus and the stress gets diverted and lo and behold his hair starts to look better. Like I say eating really healthily and exercising will stand to you for a lifetime and you'll almost certainly live longer in better health and look better with it.

That said I do remember reading way back about a study into identical male twins and hair loss and IIRC it found that receding was pretty much genetic, but overall thinning seemed to have more lifestyle influences.








*This is me off the top of my head(no pun) and much better info will no doubt be along in due course.

speedboatchase

There are only two FDA-approved treatments that work: minoxidil (Regaine) and finasteride (Propecia). For each of those, neither is guaranteed to do any more than halt, rather than reverse hair loss. Until FDA-approved, consider any other non-surgical solution to be nonsense.

TerrorFirmer

Pretty much the above. Except Minoxidil is designed to slow down mature loss, it's pretty useless for someone experiencing rapid onset Male Pattern Baldness (i.e at 20 years old). In your case, Finasteride is the only realistic option, if taken before the thinning get's very noticeable, considering you have an intact hairline you should be able to maintain a good head of head of hair indefinitely on it.

Laughed out loud at one of the comments on the video "If diet was the key factor, wouldn't like 75% of Americans be bald?"

Astounding amount of ignorance on the comments in general though. People claiming that diet is the key factor to hair loss and that's why people in great shape and living healthy lifestyles rarely go bald. Eh....what?

Some people may experience thinning for a variety of reasons but in 95% of cases it's just plain old Male Pattern Baldness which is genetic.

NIMAN

Can't stop nature I'm afraid.....I know a few people who spent a small countries GDP on creams and rubs and mousse's and did no good.

theteal

A good clippers is the best cure