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Out of enlightened self-interest, I did a deep dive into the topic of male pattern baldness, and after freshening up on my rather rusty Bayes', I decided that I'd gone to enough effort to justify a proper blog post. Here you go.
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Appreciate the effort OP. As someone on Fin, it has to be the first line of defence and using it wihtout minoxidil or any other inhibitors like Dutasteride is a waste of time. Finasteride is extremely safe and there is nothing you can do beyond it and its bigger brother in Dutasteride.
Hair transplants are expensive, painful, give bad results and force you to hop on the same two drugs for life that I just pointed out. Most anti fin advice is garbage and is some form of real alpha male cope instead of some well thought out conclusion.
My hair is very straight, very thin, not very dense and I have a wider than average forehead. My dad and grandad have a full head of hair, my younger brother has denser hair than most girls I have met. By age 16 I could see that the norwood reaper was knocking at the door as my temple did have some recession, men on my mtohers side are bald. I saw my dermat and he offered minoxidial as fin should not be taken before puberty ends. Like all men in my situation I decided to simply pretend that I was not losing hair. I hit 21 and my hairline was still the same, yet I was worried about losing hair. I found the channel More Plates More Dates, ran by a Canadian roidhead named derek who was also sponosring a retired MMA fighter I knew. He laid out his own case with hairloss and often hammered hom the importance of finasteride.
The summer of 22, my grandad started complaining about my loose hair he found. One day my mother told me that there was a small bald spot, the size of a tiny apple on the top of my head. I went to the dermat the next day, hopped in fin and do not have that baldspot anymore. My three years have yielded zero side effects and I cannot think that youtuber enough since most if not all advice I see online is pretty garbage on this topic. My high school best friend would often joke about me being someone who would need a hair transplant. We stopped talking 6 years ago, I saw a photo of him recently and he is nearly bald from aggressive hair loss.
Going bald is traumatic because it absolutely traumatic and if you dont lie to yourself, it is very easily avoidable. I posted about this a few weeks ago and the response I got were not very good. If you are suffering from Male Pattern Baldness, see your dermat, pop finasteride (take it topically if you are afraid) and dont read about potential side effects, plenty get them via the placebo effect or something. I look normal now, I still did when I was receeding but getting it fixed at the right time did a lot of good to me.
I agree that finasteride is treated unfairly. Even if you're in the unlucky 1-2% that gets significant side effects, they usually wear off in weeks or months from cessation.
Thanks for reading, and good luck keeping your hair while you still need it!
You too doc. Fin is the single most important intervention. I was lucky that I did not heed advice from e Alpha Males for my issue. Did not know you had a substack.
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