Hi everyone!
I’ve stumbled upon HairLossTalk.com very recently and decided to join the forums and plan my own regimen to maintain the hair I have left and hopefully thicken it up. But then I came across this post about ejaculation affecting the health of our hair and I felt a strong need to toss in my 2 cents.
It’s currently December of 2009. At the beginning of spring this year, I met a girl from Austria who was staying here in the U.S. working as an au pair. She was bored, lonely, etc., (and amazingly gorgeous) and she was looking for a companion during her stay. When I was with her we were having sex maybe once a week on average. During that time my hair felt “ normal,†meaning I wasn’t panicking about my hair loss very much. I knew I was losing my hair, but my hair felt somewhat strong and I could still style it and have confidence in myself.
When August of 2009 came, she had to go back to Austria because her au pair job had expired. After she left I must have really missed having her around because I found myself masturbating like crazy. I whacked it at least once a day for several months on end. Sometimes twice or more in a day. And I didn’t go a single day without masturbation unless I was sick. It was a lot of masturbating. More than I’d ever done in the past.
Here’s the crazy thing: Around early/mid November 2009, after a solid two and a half months of daily ejaculations, I started to notice my hair feeling extra thin. It felt so weak and brittle that I couldn’t even style it. All the density it once had was lost. Plus, I was shedding much more than usual. It was starting to scare me because I was shedding so much and my confidence was GONE. Completely gone. At the end of November (started on Thanksgiving, actually) I decided to change my habits. I stopped masturbating so much. I’ve masturbated once in the past week and will try to keep it to 1-2 ejaculations per week for a while. I also started drinking 2-3 cups of green tea per day. Now, I’m not sure if it was the green tea or the decrease in masturbation (or both), but in the past two weeks since I changed my habits my hair has ALREADY started to feel stronger. Obviously, no hair has grown back because that’s not possible in two weeks and I'm not even expecting it to grow back. But I can definitely style it better, disguise the thin spots easier, and it has a little more density than it did before. I know it sounds crazy, but it’s true.
So does this prove that frequent ejaculation makes men go bald? No. Does it qualify as scientific evidence to support the theory behind this thread? No. It could all be coincidence. BUT… I must admit...
I would not be the least bit surprised if someone were to discover that ejaculation somehow raises DHT levels and accelerates hair loss in men susceptible to male pattern baldness.
So here’s my advice to any single guys out there who are suffering from male pattern baldness. Seriously, try cutting down to 1 or 2 jerk sessions a week if you’re jerking daily. I know it’s hard to cut down at first, but give it a shot. Drink some green tea too. Hopefully you’ll feel the same positive effects I did
-Ryan