Recent content by coolio

These stories turn up periodically. Some guy gets all into silver supplementation and ends up turning blue.

A big part of what makes balding scalps different from hairy scalps is the hair itself. Hairs need blood supply & tissue to be supported and the scalp skin adjusts to the need. If you transplant thick healthy donor hairs into the balding area, then the skin starts reverting to its thicker...

Bad health can make baldness worse, and yet the primary cause of baldness is not usually bad health. Those two things can both be true at once. Malnourishment correlates with short height. But most short guys are not malnourished. Same principle with bald men and high DHT. Most bald...

My guess is that HMI is a complete fail, which is a serious letdown. Researchers should be investigating WHY this stuff worked on macaques without working on humans. But the medical world doesn't give a crap about hair loss so I'm not holding my breath. The funding for HMI hair research will...

It generated a lot of talk on the hair forums because it was real clinical research. Dermarolling/needling usually falls into two different approaches. You can go shallow (like 0.5mm) and do it more frequently, or go deep (1.5+ mm) and less frequently. It's pretty damaging to the scalp if...

Do you mean the Follica research? IMO that procedure was usually misunderstood on the hair forums. Calling that procedure "dermarolling" is misleading. They used a dermaroller type of tool and destroyed the top layer of skin. The needle length was shallow but the density of the holes was...

The cause & effect mainly runs the other way. First the hair follicles shut down from baldness. Then afterwards the skin gets thinner with reduced blood flow because it's not needed. Transplants work because the process can run the other way. If you implant working follicles into balded...

I have used 1% Keto shampoo several times a week for over 15 years. I'm fine. So are most users. You're an outlier.

Congratulations, you are an outlier. Keto shampoo has been on the market for decades. It's avaliable OTC with no script. If you start claiming it's more dangerous than Finasteride or Minoxidil then I'm just going to laugh. The mainstream take is that topical antifungals like Keto don't even...

Another thing that might help a teenage boy is daily vitamin B5 pills ("pantothetic acid"). Especially if he eats a crappy western diet that's low in green veggies. Some people report that B5 supplements reduce oily skin & acne when taken in large regular doses. IMO that suggests it may do...

If I had a teenage son I would tell him to use Nizoral a lot. Do it religiously at least every other day. Get the stuff all lathered up & soaked in for several minutes before rinsing it out. Ketoconazole has a mild anti-androgenic effect and there's no harm in it. Hair loss prevention at...

Docs tell you to take Finasteride because the extra native hair growth will make their transplant appear to look better. And it can reduce the problem of you running out of donor hair in the future. Your transplanted hairs are pretty permanent either way. If you have severe baldness in the...

I don't really follow the the industry's pricing. Can't say on that. In the last decade there has been a boom of transplant clinics in places like Turkey where the labor costs are lower. It's a wild west situation. Some of them are doing genuinely good work for a fraction of the prices in...

H&W have finally moved into doing FUE in recent years. There is a widespread opinion that their FUE results are not matching their famous strip work. As for their modern strip work, I don't have feedback on that either way. Just curious - So you are still happy with your 19yo FUT results...

Regarding the sun exposure theory - That could be the reason why baldness developed even if there is no direct cause-and-effect relationship in living people. You can take a baby Giraffe and raise him in captivity so he never needs to use his long neck to reach tree leaves. He will grow a...