Recent content by pubic

About the peel: other than that old immortalhair thread, did it actually help anyone? Millions of bald people shave their head every day. If exfoliation (at least in isolation) did anything, we should have a ton of evidence by now.

Topical Blood Theory After doing my 5th roll today (the bloodiest yet), a thought occured to me: what if dermarolling works by short circuiting the damaged vascular system of male pattern baldness? Whatever the reason, DHT, miniaturization, or something else, there is evidence that the blood supply has a harder...

Capsaicin stimulates neurons to release CGRP, boosting production of IGF-1. My take is that it tricks the body into healing an imagined burn. This study is pretty popular: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17569567 They observed hair growth in humans after 5 months of capsaicin and isoflavone...

Intro What's up rollers. Since I'm starting this treatment, I decided to join in the discussion too. I am lucky in that I don't have aggressive loss, and in fact, I've outright stopped my shedding a long time ago. Still, in the past few months, I've been upping my game in hopes of regrowth. One...