Androgenic Alopecia and The 50% Rule 

Why is nature so cruel to us. I am only 21!

Fantastic explanation in a short video when other physicians are producing 26 min videos that are not as understandable. Thank you!

My own hair growth progress and success, I myself adhered to this daily regimen: Take morning sunlight every day for essential vitamin D. Eat vegetables of all colors. Applying paraben-free and fragrance free shampoo and massaging two times per week with hair oil by litttleextra's cocooonion oil. Important to keep in mind that hair growth is affected by overall health as well as circulation and diet.

The best channel for this topic, no doubt!

This is maybe why it can sometimes feel as though finasteride is not working. The problem areas that caused us to use the finasterade in the first place are already below the 50% mark. They dont get any better and may even continue to miniaturise. So it seems like its not working. But in reality, all your healthy hairs beyond those are now thriving and staying put!

I would love for you to talk about women with androgenic alopecia, and what our best options are to improve our hair growth please. Also, can you do an exact demonstration of the best way to apply liquid minoxidil please?

Thank you doctor for giving us lot of information and knowledge....we are very thankful to you sir.... God bless you sir

Well that's a relief because somebody on Reddit scared me saying it's so bad for the scalp but I believe a doctor more

So how come ive completely regrown hair in an area of my temple, from an area where I havent seen hair in years, from no hair to full density with just microneedling alone? Are the effects of finasteride and minoxidil amplified when adding micro needling? And can that overcome the 50% rule?

Prevention is better than Cure

Always videos of great knowledge Thank u 🙏

Thats not true actually .Unless your hair follicles are totally dead ,you can reverse those hairs back to their original form doesnt matter how miniaturised they are .If you some hair regrowth videos due to finesteride,you will realise it

Thanks for the awesome and simple explanation.

I had a woman on a Facebook group explain that finasteride is causing cancers in many woman which are being ignored, because it converts to estrogens and results in estrogen buildup in menopausal women taking it for AA, but they don't know this so they aren't taking progesterone to counter the effects. Thoughts?

That's why it's best not to live in denial and get on finasteride and minoxidil as soon as possible or you'll be contemplating a turkish hair transplant trip, if you've any doner hair available

I wish I knew all this science while I was dealing with Hairloss for years. Made the move to Finasteride+minoxidil, and have stabilized it, and regrown a little, but still have a lot of minaturized hair. Needed to start it 3 or 4 years earlier. Hope we get a cure, or able to clone our existing hair for transplants soon!

I have hair loss from PCOS and it is significant.

Hi, I have Androgenetic Alopecia. Would I be a good candidate for a hair Transplant if the hair is taken from the non affected areas?

I'm torn when hearing well supported 'news' such as this. On one hand, I get it, it makes sense, and there are thousands of mostly bald people on finasteride supporting the information. On the other, we see the occasional person (like the wacky daily microneedling guy) who have managed to go from straight bald to nearly a full head of hair without surgery. There's that old 80's story of the bald old man who full thickness burned his head and came back for a checkup with a full head of hair. It certainly seems that it's *possible* to regrow hair, but we can't prescribe a pathway to make it happen for the average person at this point.

How much time is required to stabilize hairfall after using finasteride or dutaseteride

😊wonderful informative videos. In my 50's with moderate loss. With Prostate cancer in my family I'm slow to want to take meds that may alter my psa and possibly complicate readings and understanding of results. Can you do video explaining how meds would affect people like me and how I could have confidence in psa levels and results moving forward.

Presenter here is very lucky (at his age) to not have the "balding gene" as such. There are many more caucasians than Indians and asians that have this gene. Not to say no asians or Indians go bald but its not as prevalent. Alot of Indian and Asian men keep their hair for life, they may lose a bit at the end due to circualation issues which happen as we age but a lot keep most of the thickness of their hair. I think the populatiosn that has the most balding is the people of UK, Irish, Scottish background - some beleive it may be due to Vitamin D ie balding makes people absorb the Vitamin D more readily......... The pure Australian Aboriginals do not have any balding at all - because there is so much burning sun that Vitamin D gets through and also if people were balding - even with dark skin their skin would burn so that makes sense.

"It's Time to Sound the Alarm on Finasteride" - Abdulmaged Traish.

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Good explanation, thanks

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Good sound information

This is how my doctor explained this 💯

not what I wanted to hear but that's life!

I have a large affected area on my head. Can I take both Oral and Foam Minoxidil at one time for recovery?

How. Much time does it takes to get to that 50% mark thinning of the hair (in years) since you first noticed thinning ? Doc is it 2or 3 years ?

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What stops male pattern baldness? Can you know how far it is going to go? For example my dad's hair thinned until his late sixties but stayed that way until his nineties.

Excellent summary!

What happens with a hair that was at 50% diameter before the use of minoxidil and has by now thickened up, when minoxidil is stopped? Is it still a viable choice to save that specific hair by starting up finasteride, even if you stop using minoxidil? Or would it be too far gone regardless? I'm curious about this process, because as far as I'm aware, minoxidil isn't preventative like finasteride, BUT the hair diameter is still increased. Would it return to the size it would've been without the use of minoxidil?

so what you are suggesting is that if my hair is less than 50 percent thing it’s impossible to grow it back?

He seems to be an Indian but his accent ❤

Studies that prove this?

So, can you go from 30 to 80? or does it just stay at 30? I mean is the rule you can only gain 50 back? if so then A 20m could get to a 70m hair shaft at best? or is it once it drops below 50m it cannot ever improve up at all?

Bullshit. I'mma grow my full hair back.

I don't understand how finasteride repairs hair follicles when all it does is block DHT? Is it that hair follicles above 50% thickness will naturally heal themselves once DHT in the scalp falls beneath a certain threshold? Does that I mean that, as someone who isn't normally susceptible to MPB, if I take something that raises my DHT levels (like Tongkat Ali), to the point where it damages my hair follicles, taking a break from it will naturally allow the follicles to repair (because like a MPB sufferer who is taking finasteride, my scalp DHT levels will again have dropped into safe range)?

Sir what do you say about hair serums like Redensyl, can they help equally?

Sir 20 year old have a strong hairline have good hair not bad not that good but it is good, i am on accutane, for 5 days. And now in the 3rd day of accutane i have noticed like 10 15 hair whenever oil my hair

i am 26 year old male. i was very stressed when i was 21 and therefore hair thinning started and hair became super super thin when i was 22 . then after that my stress level decreased significantly and therefore hair thickness improved little bit without doing any treatment. still i havent regained my original hair thickness . my family history is like my father is 57 and has full head of hair which are super thick ,my grandfather too is 90 and has thick hair, same is the case with my fathers brothers . my mother although lost hair when i was born because she took hormonal injections during pregnancy . my maternal uncles had good hairs till 35-40 and started loosing hair after 40s . can any one guide me

Can minoxidil effect or cause varicocele ?

This doesn't fit results that I've seen though, some people post pictures of being able to fill back in their very thin parts or other areas, and that thinning appearance surely would have been caused by the hairs having completely gone through the cycle of miniaturization right?

Any idea about herbal supplements for dht blocker like pumpkin seeds,setirol & grape extract

I have cats, minoxidil is extremely toxic to cats, what should I use?

Great explanation!!

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I dint comb hair for four days and kost 360 on fourth night...😢 This is happening for last 15 years

I want you to ask you a question that none1 know the answer(even my hair transplant doctor) i m curently on minoxidil 5mg pill(7.5mg per day) and minoxidil topical applied at night on frontal half of head. Question is ....i want to stop the topical but since i m on pill form minoxidil will i encounter the shedding again or do i lose the frontal part where it was stimulted with topical?

Is this curable doctor? Thanks in advance.

I am just 18 😭😭😭😭

Thank you Dr.Jayaprakash. How long does the initial hairfall continues after starting typical minoxidil?? Is it normal??

Sir i am at first step is there any reason to thick naturally without minoxidil plzz reply

and if i start to take finasteride before signs of hairloss? Will i never lose hair?

Now how do I know if some of my hair hasn't reached the bottom 50% stage

Yeah its funny because im 6 months jnto growing my hair out, and the only hairs i seem to be losing are small hairs and not the longer hairs....

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Damn, I wasn't aware of that, it might be good news for me! I'm 26 years old and still pretty much Norwood 1 but I've been loosing quite a bit of density since about the age of 19. Luckily, I started out with very thick hair so even now I probably still pass off as someone with a full of head of hair in most people's eyes, but my loss of density is starting to become more and more noticeable when my hair is wet or when there's a lot of light. My hairline is still basically straight across, though, so there might be hope that a lot of that hair I've lost is still above that 50% threshold. Finasteride kinda scares me given the potential side effects. Minoxidil, though, I'm open to trying. Do you think it could be effective in a case like mine?

How do I know in wich phase is my hair?

Ok I know these things.But um every human have different ways to regain their hair.And hair regrow is possibe even it is on the lowest in miniturized. But have to spend lots of money without hair transplant.

Guess I hit genetic lottery. 37 with zero hairloss. Same hairline I had at 16..😁

Dose this work in a similar way with beard hair?

sir im under 50% but its been 8 month since im using minoxidil but it dosent changed anything , should i go for topical finasteride

Minoxidil is enough or I have to wash my hair forced

Hi Doctor Can you make a video about finasteride and explain how it can give depressive symptoms fore some individuals?

But sir, the problem is hair become dependent on this medicine.

Is it reversible

is there no chance at all to reverse it if it is below 50%?

Mines did basically happen overnight 4 months after having my second baby , I keep getting told it's telogen effluvium but I have thinner hairs growing in 😢 i wish it did happen overnight i think seeing it slowly fade away is worse, were should i apply minxodil then ? Because my part looks like it always did but upclose under micoscope theres thinner hairs how do i know this isnt happening all over im so frightened and confused

Can u use Finesteride for woman? In uk they refuse to prescribe it to woman :(

But telegen effluvium can also miniaturize correct?

Hi, sir how are you I have androgenetic alopecia. My doctor prescribed me topical minoxidil 5% and dutasteride 0.5mg and I start using this medicine last 1.5 months. my doctor also told me that 1st 3 months my hair will fall even more. But I noticed that since I started using minoxidil 5% and dutasteride 0.5mg my hair fall totally stopped. why did my hair fall stop in 1st 1.5 months?

Yes No Hope!!

Bro , I started using minoxidil from last four months but i applied it once a day and now more hair is falling,I don't know whether it is shedding or not . I am just 17 years old. studying b tech first year i got some bald due to androgenetic. Can i get my hair back plz reply bro plz 😭😭

And what about treatment for post-finasteride syndrome?

Hey Doc. Can topical min give you a glaze over your eyes or have an effect on tear ducts?

Can drinking whey aggravate hair loss by increasing DHT ?

Dutasteride doubled my Testosterone, and increase my dht! How is it posible?????

I am at 15% 😶

Go bald, be brave.

Sir what do you say about hair serums like Redensyl, can they help equally?