If minoxidil regrows all the hair.........
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SE, you keep claiming this 2 year mark for minoxidil to lose its efficiency. Could you post a study or two proving this?
The reason i ask, i have heard of men keeping their hair on minoxidil for much much more than 2 years...and a few months ago it seemed like 5 years ago was the inevitable life span of minoxidil
The reason i ask, i have heard of men keeping their hair on minoxidil for much much more than 2 years...and a few months ago it seemed like 5 years ago was the inevitable life span of minoxidil
It seems two years is just a number someone came up with. And everyone seems to repeat it here. There probably is a graph somewhere which says it. But like with everything its down to the person, some people it may start to go down hill after two years others it may not. But everyone shouts to years around like your is going well thats it 2 years is up, bye bye time to start falling out again.
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I had a discussion on this very issue with Radio, me being you and him being me.
I told him that it is obviously related to one's rate of loss and hair loss progression. Many lose hair in bursts- one that does not experience an onslaught for more than 2 years will of course keep his minoxidil results. Some people even stop receeding at one point.
Radio argued that the average person on minoxidil treatment(he mentioned a study) will start to experience a decline in one or two years, as this is the time that minoxidil regrowth can outrun the balding process.
I have no reason not to believe him.
Even if the 2 years average mark of decline turns out to be inaccurate, it is a fact that a minoxidil only approach is like trying to save yourself from drowning by pulling your hair up.
Minoxidil is a hypertrichotic agent. It will enhance growth where an active follicle is- either it is miniaturizing due to male pattern baldness or not. Minoxidil just makes you a bit hairier and has nothing to do with the balding process.
This point is very important given that minoxidil is marketed as a hairloss treatment. I have come to believe that it has nothing to do with male pattern baldness.
It think of it as the most natural of wigs.
I told him that it is obviously related to one's rate of loss and hair loss progression. Many lose hair in bursts- one that does not experience an onslaught for more than 2 years will of course keep his minoxidil results. Some people even stop receeding at one point.
Radio argued that the average person on minoxidil treatment(he mentioned a study) will start to experience a decline in one or two years, as this is the time that minoxidil regrowth can outrun the balding process.
I have no reason not to believe him.
Even if the 2 years average mark of decline turns out to be inaccurate, it is a fact that a minoxidil only approach is like trying to save yourself from drowning by pulling your hair up.
Minoxidil is a hypertrichotic agent. It will enhance growth where an active follicle is- either it is miniaturizing due to male pattern baldness or not. Minoxidil just makes you a bit hairier and has nothing to do with the balding process.
This point is very important given that minoxidil is marketed as a hairloss treatment. I have come to believe that it has nothing to do with male pattern baldness.
It think of it as the most natural of wigs.