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In my 30years of experience, I have seen several economic situations, each one uniquely different but all the same. No matter the differences, one issue remained the same. If you wanted to endure, you needed to possess every attribute desired by your employer and prospective employer.

One constant is, how you look is as important as what you know. It’s as important to look youthful as it is to look experienced. Unfortunately looking older does not pay off, most of the time you are not perceived as experienced it’s simply perceived as old.

Read the full text at Examiner.com

The article goes on to talk about how important hair is, in that it adds confidence to the prospective employee. I’ve written about this before (and there was an LA Times article about it), but it’s good to get someone else writing about it from time to time. So do you agree or disagree that hair makes the man?

You said before that Propecia/finasteride has no effect on sebum. And some people have complained that Propecia has increased their acne. I was on Propecia for 58 days and I didn’t notice my acne getting any better or worse. This being said, is it safe to say that acne is not caused by DHT? Sure, DHT might be present but maybe it’s caused by something on the surface of the skin, such as skin cells not being sloughed off fast enough.

According to Wikipedia, “[acne] is a common skin condition, caused by changes in the pilosebaceous units, skin structures consisting of a hair follicle and its associated sebaceous gland via androgen stimulation.”

The pilosebaceous unit (hair, gland, and follicle) become infected as they are colonized by bacteria that destroy some of the microscopic anatomy. The output of sebum just feeds the areas which become infected and the circulating androgens. The list of causes are listed here, as well as descriptions of the social impact of the process in its teenage victims. DHT is just one of the androgens that contribute to acne so the use of drugs like Propecia usually fail to solve the acne problems.

Hi doc

I want to know if by taking female hormones, hair loss would be stopped and if the regrowth will increase…For example, transexuals dont’ have hair loss problems. I know all the side effects, but I just want to know if the therapy to chanege sex makes hair losso stop in 100% of the cases.

Thank you

I see transsexual patients on female hormones and they still have hair loss. Even those who evolve into a female will still bald as long is there is testosterone on board. Some even have a hair transplant to get back their childhood hairlines (which is concave in shape, just like the adult female hairline).

I have come to know that someone called SK has discovered a Yoga exercise called balayam is effective in curing baldness and hairloss. If you want to know more about balayam please log on to balayam.com

Controlling stress can help with balding that was caused by stress, but I would sincerely doubt any yoga technique is a “magical yet simple way to cure baldness” as that site states. Who doesn’t love a good magic trick? Sorry, but no yoga move will reverse genetic hair loss.

I just watched the video of this “magical” method and smiled when I saw that the baldness cure that everyone has been missing over the years was apparently the act of rubbing your fingers in a certain way. Well, at least the Balayam site isn’t charging people money for this stuff. See the video yourself at YouTube. And by the way… I’m only indulging this to leave you all with a smile for the weekend.

You are so full of yourself Rassman! The remedies that you claim to be ineffective, do indeed work and you know it. Additionally, don’t use the “consult your doctor” line as a means of beating around the bush, thereby coercing oblivious morons to actually use your transplant services. If you really were a TRUE M.D., you would most likely state the facts, and not market your own products. You look like a damned politician anyway. Yours Truly

Since when did I have my own products? The only thing I sell with my name on it is the Hair Loss and Replacement for Dummies book…

Many of the thousands of return readers want to know what I think about things, but I limit my published thoughts to probing what I feel are my educational responsibilities to my readership. We spend hours and hours each and every day filtering hundreds of emails and researching answers to some questions that have twists and turns in them. Not every email I receive can be answered perfectly. Also, I’m not your physician (or the physician of anyone that writes in), so I’m often on the horns of a dilemma which puts the challenge to me as to what I can or can’t say (legal liability / medical reasons). Bottom line though, if you don’t like what I have to write… please, by all means stop visiting the site.

Snippet from the article:

Robb Greve has always been a handsome man but when it comes to his hair he is very sensitive. He wore his hat everywhere and if he was asked to take off his hat in a public place he would take his family and leave.

This man avoided the national anthem at a Cardinals football game and stayed away from church because he did not want to take off his hat. Situations like this limited the fun that his family has had together.

His wife Anne has agonized over the burden of his hat. So she got her family together and unknown to him they nominated him for the new reality show ‘Hair Loss Confidential’

Full article at AZ Central – Valley man in hair loss reality show

Sounds interesting, but no information is given as to whether the show has been picked up by a network to actually air on television (network or cable). It might just wind up on the web. But if you read the full article, it alludes to this man being shocked at how he suddenly had a full head of hair immediately after the procedure. What it fails to mention is that those hairs will likely fall out and he won’t see any growth for months. That’s entertainment…

I began losing hair in the back of my scalp towards my neck when i was 18. My parents took me to a dermatologist and i received 2 rounds of shots. The balding subsided about 6 months after than and i almost even got all my hair back. I am now 24 and about two years ago i began loosing hair around my ear on the right side. Now i have a fist sized bald spot ( which until recently i was very good at concealing). I am also balding on the other side of my head. The sides of my scalp itch badly and i cant help but to run my hands though it because its all i can think about. This makes me very self conscious. I have an extremely busy work week and meet with customers constantly. I feel that in my industry image is everything and being so young it makes it that much more important. This disease is starting to effect every aspect of my life and i need a solution. Please tell me where i can go ( preferably in houston ) to get treatment by someone who will not waste my time and my money.

Thank You

You certainly need a diagnosis, but I do not know who you can see. Either check the physician search at ISHRS or you can consider sending me a set of photos from many angles so I can get an appreciation of what your problem is (email address is on the Contact page. The thing is, this is a most unusual problem and I’m not sure just randomly picking a local Houston doctor, even on the ISHRS site, will be the greatest solution. It’s worth a shot if you’re low on options. If you send photos and I’m still stumped, I can send them to other experts in the field (I’ll block out your face in the images).