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Hi Folks !
I just found this interesting link. It's a woman who tell how she correct(ed) his receeding hairline. Mostly by brushing. Maybe it will help someone ?
Bye
Vivien
I've come accross this girl before in my obsessive "googling" for hairloss treatments. I'm a bit nervous of it as when I use a boarbrush (or any brush) i always find hairs in it. But i also have the receded temples so it might be worth a shot!
-Phil
this woman seems like somone who was born with a high forehead and went through a patch where she lost abit more hair than normal, her hairline probably then returned to normal when her hormones calmed down... i doubt that it had anything to do with stimulating her scalp.
I have all confidence that one day they will discover a way to cure balding properly, however this method and other drugs available currently are not the way to go in my opinion. Everyone stimulates their scalp when they shampoo their hair...
Some drugs right now help you grow more hair and stop a lot of hair from falling out, that its true and its happening to me. They dont cure baldness, but they can help a balding crown for example.
I have the same hope since I'm loosing my hair but I don't have a lot of optimism about it because a couple of powerful forces stand in the way:
1. It's basically not a "life or death" problem so you will never see the full weight of the medical establishment thrown at it which is true for all the other "nusance diseases" that people can basically live with if they have to. I know how that goes but it's important to understand that on a global scale, MPB is off the radar compared to HIV in Africa, Alzheimer's, Darfur, superbugs, and some forms of cancer. In fact if money were sucked away from these problems to pay for help for guys going bald, it would raise ethical questions.
2. If there were a huge market for anti-MPB Rx therapies that men were willing to pay for (because they would not be covered by a Rx drug plan) then there might be more development incentive but (and this is unfortunate in a way) an awful lot of guys going bald don't give a flip. If you suggested they think about paying a few hundred bucks every quarter for Propecia they'd think you're nuts. Some are even happy to go bald (no more haircuts!) and help by shaving what little hair they have up there. If every single adult male with MPB were worried sick about it, the focus on serious research into causes and cures would be much greater.
What about Propecia?
Propecia came about by accident. Men taking Proscar noticed hair growth. A side effect of treatment for BPH was for once desireable (I think Viagra was also an accidental drug). Merck investigated to see how little would be needed for hair regrowth and settled on 1 mg / day. They probably would never have developed Propecia from scratch, and Merck doesn't make a pile of money of it, but I hope they make enough to keep making it. We got lucky on that one so who knows, maybe in the process of finding a cure for something deadly, they'll stumble upon a cure for baldness?
Have any of you noticed this guy on American Idol? His hairline is really strange. It looks like he shaves his forehead to shape it. People do that to shape their beards and that can be attractive, but shaving one's forehead and wiping out one's natural hairline to me comes off as hideous.
Bill