The age of 19, is a good time to start finasteride if you are really balding early. Make sure that this is the case by getting the diagnosis from an expert doctor, so you don’t get hooked for life on a drug you wouldn’t need if you do not have Male Pattern Badling
The point is there’s no need to reinforce this belief that everybody needs to have hair. That mentality obviously benefits the hair loss industry. Some guys can’t get over the fact that they’re losing their hair and will go to far lengths to preserve whatever they can. But there’s no shame in being bald and if your hair is a main source of self esteem, I recommend taking steps to fix that because nice hair won’t get you that far in life.
Hair loss has been important throughout the ages. From a historical perspective, hair loss was very common in the cities when TB ran wild. That was why a woman looked for a hairy man to qualify a man as a prospective husband. If a man lost his hair, the presumption was that they had TB and would probably die from it, not living long enough to provide family support for the long term. This created a lot of myths that have stayed with us in one way or another today. It is also imporant to know that the hair restoration business will hit $30 Billion for 2025, now at something like $6+ Billion and the hair cosmetics industry is today over $20 Billion and growing fast to make you WANT to not be bald. This is the power of money today because if you retain the bald look, no one can make money from you, its free!
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6609098/
Conclusion: Preliminary results on the use of topical FNS are limited but safe and promising. Continued research into drug-delivery, ideal topical concentration and application frequency, side effects and use for other alopecias will help to elucidate the full extent of topical FNS’ use.
Is there any lived experience, or any study, suggesting that you can experience hair fall if you wash your hair in hard water? I understand hard water as the type of naturally available water from a well or a pond that has a higher level of minerals. I am asking because I saw an ad for a hard water filter for shower heads.
No. Hard water doesn’t cause hair loss. Genes working with your DHT causes hair loss
I am an 18 year old, turning 19 in a month who’s been on fin since December 12th and was wondering if it will stunt my growth. I’m not sure if I’ve stopped growing but in the past year I went to the A&E twice for unrelated reasons and realized that between those two visits, the latest being on NYE, I had grown a few cm according the nurses measurements. Is there any chance fin could stunt my growth and if I should stay on it or switch to min till I’m older.
I haven’t seen stunted growth in the many years using it on men of 17 or older. I routinely prescribe finasteride for men over 17 with parents permission
I’m 19 and started to notice my hairline change about a year ago and just today was trying to measure to see if it’s in the mature hairline category, I noticed everyone says that juvenile hairlines start from the highest forehead wrinkle, and I was wondering if this is always true because I have a picture of myself from when I was 10 or 11 with my hair slicked back so you can see my forehead very clearly and it really doesn’t look like my hairline starts where my highest forehead wrinkle is, idk maybe my highest forehead wrinkle is very faint and I can’t really see it but I even measured the ratio of my forehead to the rest of my face from that picture and from a picture now and if I measure from the center of my hairline my forehead is in the same proportion to the rest of my head in both pictures.
Yes, all juvenile hairlines start at the highest wrinkle of the furrowed brow, see this article which discusses hairlines in children, women and men as they develop: https://newhair.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/phenotype-article-published.pdf
Here is the study, I figured it was rather interesting. When people don’t know anything about us bald/balding folks they see us as less socially attractive than non bald dudes. But once they get to know us they actually find us MORE socially attractive than non-bald males.
Edit: Are half of balding men retarded? Or just not reading the full post? The point here is that bald/balding men are MORE socially attractive than non-balding men from a perspective of SOCIAL attractiveness to people that know them. No one is saying the physical part is ground breaking information. Cheezits…
There is not much for me to say than is said in the publication.
Asking this because i believe fin is hardly doing anything to save my hairline at the moment. Its been a solid eight months only to have seen more recession and thinning. Let me know your guys experiences!
Finasteride works less well on hairlines that on the crown. There is, however, many examples of finasteride working on the hairline on my https://baldingblog.com/ site (this is the stie) so use the search engine to find examples. See examples posted today,
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