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I'm 27 and I have been balding since I was 20. I'm not the "wow youre thinning" type of bald, but more the "Dude where's your hair" type of bald. I never really cared that much, but since a month or so, I've been looking into the mechanics behind male pattern baldness.
I have formulated a theory and I want you guys to let your brains go over it and see what you think. It's a little nutty, a bit retarded, but for the sake of discussion...
So what I understand from male pattern baldness is that DHT accumulates at the hair follicles in the scalp. The effect of this is that the follicles receive less nutrients and therefore the follicle is actually starved. This leads eventually to hairloss.
I have seen images where the blood vessel that's connected to the follicle actually shrinks in size, starving the follicle even more. There are even theories out there that blame male pattern baldness entirely on blood flow.
Their theory states that DHT accumulates, simply because there's too little blood flow to clean the DHT up. To wash it away, if you will.
If you look up on Google "Galea"... or "the epicranius"... and you click on the images, you will see that at the EXACT place, where we go bald.. no muscles are present. Is this a coincidence? Or does it explain why blood flow is more limited in that area... And thus, why we go bald there... If we tense up a muscle, blood rushes to this muscle... Supplying it with nutrient rich blood... But on the top of our head, we only have a thick fiberous layer with veins... The blood flow in the epicranius, comes solely from the heart... And what if the blood flow just isnt sufficient enough to maintain the hair follicles or wash out the toxins (DHT).
I don't think that this theory is completely faulty. Because bald men don't have MORE DHT in their body than men with full heads of hair. YET with us bald guys... It accumulates in the scalp. Hence the idea that the clean up crew is the culprit instead of the DHT-dirt itself.. is not that far fetched.
So I looked further into the blood flow being the main culprit and saw that there have been some techniques based on this. They speak about scalp messages to promote blood flow... invertion... like, standing on your head to get more blood to scalp. Many people say this all is nonesense and that it doesn't work, yet others swear by it.
But I'm a believer in the blood flow theory... nothing grows without nourishment. To me it's logical that you first go to the supply of nutrients, when something stops growing. But I think that the messages and invertion is simply not enough.
Okay, HERE is where I get nutty... But remember: sake of discussion.
What if you take a device that pulls a vaccuum on the scalp. Sucking the blood into the veins of your hair follicles. The engorged veins will widen and therefor a better blood flow is promoted... It's like manually dilating your veins...
Tell me why this wont work. I would love to hear you guys' take on it, since most of you know more about the subject than I do.
I have formulated a theory and I want you guys to let your brains go over it and see what you think. It's a little nutty, a bit retarded, but for the sake of discussion...
So what I understand from male pattern baldness is that DHT accumulates at the hair follicles in the scalp. The effect of this is that the follicles receive less nutrients and therefore the follicle is actually starved. This leads eventually to hairloss.
I have seen images where the blood vessel that's connected to the follicle actually shrinks in size, starving the follicle even more. There are even theories out there that blame male pattern baldness entirely on blood flow.
Their theory states that DHT accumulates, simply because there's too little blood flow to clean the DHT up. To wash it away, if you will.
If you look up on Google "Galea"... or "the epicranius"... and you click on the images, you will see that at the EXACT place, where we go bald.. no muscles are present. Is this a coincidence? Or does it explain why blood flow is more limited in that area... And thus, why we go bald there... If we tense up a muscle, blood rushes to this muscle... Supplying it with nutrient rich blood... But on the top of our head, we only have a thick fiberous layer with veins... The blood flow in the epicranius, comes solely from the heart... And what if the blood flow just isnt sufficient enough to maintain the hair follicles or wash out the toxins (DHT).
I don't think that this theory is completely faulty. Because bald men don't have MORE DHT in their body than men with full heads of hair. YET with us bald guys... It accumulates in the scalp. Hence the idea that the clean up crew is the culprit instead of the DHT-dirt itself.. is not that far fetched.
So I looked further into the blood flow being the main culprit and saw that there have been some techniques based on this. They speak about scalp messages to promote blood flow... invertion... like, standing on your head to get more blood to scalp. Many people say this all is nonesense and that it doesn't work, yet others swear by it.
But I'm a believer in the blood flow theory... nothing grows without nourishment. To me it's logical that you first go to the supply of nutrients, when something stops growing. But I think that the messages and invertion is simply not enough.
Okay, HERE is where I get nutty... But remember: sake of discussion.
What if you take a device that pulls a vaccuum on the scalp. Sucking the blood into the veins of your hair follicles. The engorged veins will widen and therefor a better blood flow is promoted... It's like manually dilating your veins...
Tell me why this wont work. I would love to hear you guys' take on it, since most of you know more about the subject than I do.
