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If you are given to any hair loss, the sooner you begin treating more hair you will retain.
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If you are the kind of person that is losing a whole lot of his hair before the age of 25, good luck, there is probably not a whole lot you can do other than get used to it and be happy with yourself. Nonetheless, if you want to try to do something about it, look at some of the suggestions below.
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Real hair regrowth of the kind most of us are hoping for is currently impossible – or at least not possible with widely available techniques or drugs or supplements. If you look at all the pictures who claim hair regrowth, the results can be good, but they are never stupendous. This is because beyond about 2 years after a hair has fallen out of a follice (maybe less), the follicle stops being capable of regrowing hair. People who get regrowth are getting growth back from hair follicles of hair they lost fairly recently.
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Stopping hair loss is the key. Looking for dramatic hair regrowth is futile. And by stopping hair loss, this doesn’t mean there won’t continue to be hair growth/loss/regrowth cycles; some hair will always be lost and then, you hope, go on to grow back in the normal cycle. By stopping hair loss, what we mean is one must keep the cycle going and not have the falling out of hair spell the end of the cycle for a follicle. When people talk about regrowing hair realistically, they are talking about keeping active a follicle that hasn’t yet entirely ceased being able to grow hair – again after about two years follicles don’t have this ability anymore typically.
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By far the most effective way to stop hair loss is with DHT blockers. There are natural ones and there are pharmaceutical ones. Of the pharmaceutical ones, the most effective: Dutasteride. It blocks both forms of DHT/alpha reductase, and it has generally had the best results. The thing is the results are not universal in terms of helping stop hair loss, and Dutasteride typically comes with a host of nasty side effects. There is a possibility that long-term damage is being done to users of dutasteride, especially in relationship to the brain (dut is known to cause headaches and DHT is found in the brain, though it’s function there is unclear). It is not clear what it does or doesn’t do in the brain. In terms of the prostate, dutasteride will keep a prostate gland from swelling, and this is good.
Other DHT blockers: Propecia, Betasitosterol, Saw Palmetto, Nettles, etc.
Also, you can lower free testosterone amounts by have a binder that binds to testosterone in your blood so it isn’t available to be converted to DHT.
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As a general rule, DHT blockers will mess with your libido, especially as you get older. It’s a tradeoff. The tradeoff can sometimes be managed so that you get enough ooomph from your DHT blocking to preserve your hair, but still have ooomphf downstairs. But it can easily get to the point where it’s a one thing or other thing proposition, almost completely, meaning either you are getting helped with your hair or you’ve got your libido but not both.
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Other things you can ingest can help you maintain your hair, but not as effectively as DHT blockers: polyphenols and other things that stop inflammation. If you take things like fish oil, grape seed extract, blueberry extract, pine bark extract, green tea, you can reduce inflammation, and this will help your hair. If you eat less sugar and carbs in general, same thing.
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Exercise and taking things that enhance your blood flow can help around the edges. Losing weight is very good.
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I use Dutasteride topically to manage the tradeoff between its effectiveness for stopping hair loss and the loss of my libido. I recommend this for people, but there are people who have fine luck taking dutasteride orally.
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So far there is nothing that will dramatically regrow hair, though within the bounds of what I said, people will have varying results.
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If you notice you are losing hair, the best time to start dealing with it is today. That way you’ll lose less, if the things mentioned above can be useful for you.
DON’T EXPECT MIRACLES. BUT START TODAY TRYING TO STEM LOSS.