How long have you been around on hair loss forums? There have been countless theories about how environment could worsen male pattern baldness. Yet after 10 years since the forums became popular, we still have no results to show whatsoever. Nothing. Why is that? It is because male pattern baldness is simply a genetic trait.
You don't know me. I've been scammed before by all those diet/masturbation/having a boner worsens male pattern baldness. I've lost time, money and even my dignity in that process. Our situation is already bad enough that we don't need people blaming our lifestyle to be the cause of this horrible disease of the spirit.
Just remember this: no matter what you do, if you don't treat your hair loss with FDA approved medication, you will end up bald. No matter what how many times a day you ejaculate and no matter how many cheeseburgers you eat. You are in denial, you are in the phase where you tell yourself: "there must me something else I can do to dodge this". And it will only lead you to a path of frustration and suffering. Trust me, I've gone down that road.
Well that's true. I don't know you. I don't know what you've tried, and for how long, and what results you've seen.
I am an MD, and through my years of medical school i learn all about FDA approved medications. Just because something is "FDA approved" does not mean it should be the standard of treatment.
And personally, I would rather go bald then try those medications that unnaturally mess with my hormone levels. Not just because of the documented case reports of adverse effects, which are plenty on pubmed alone.
But also because I trust my own logic when it comes to assimilating my knowledge. And i have sat and listened through enough boring evidence based medicine lectures to be able to tell when a piece of information has STRONG evidence to support it vs. WEAK\"take it with a grain of salt" evidence.
I UNDERSTAND that male pattern baldness is due to a GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY of the hair follicle to DHT.
But I also KNOW (with STRONG level of evidence) that that is NOT the only factor.
And the proof is in the pudding: If it was only about susceptibility and the level of hormones wouldn't matter, then
Finasteride wouldn't work.
But Finasteride does work for almost everyone, and it's easy to understand how it's working because we know EXACTLY what the drug is doing (it's reducing DHT).
So now I have it set in my head that if you CONTROL DHT, you can CONTROL HAIR LOSS. (Not talking about REVERSING or CURING hair loss, talking about CONTROL as in slow it down)
Now for the next thing that makes sense to me, hormones are in your body for a reason. They function to serve your gender role. They give you the urge to copulate, and they give you reward when you copulate.
Hormones are your best wingman. Hormones are there to make you more physically attractive to the opposite sex. Hormones will even affect YOUR MOOD and PERSONALITY to make you more attractive to the opposite sex.
So it's kind of ironic that hormones are exacerbating a disease that makes you less attractive, gives you less confidence, and forces the modern man to take medication in order to suppress it.
Lucky for us, hormones ARE under regulation. In females, the menstrual cycle is very well understood and the fluctuation of hormone levels can be charted on a graph. We know how the feedback system works, and we've used it to our advantage to make pills that prevent pregnancy and stop menses.
In males, hormone cycles are under A LOT of variation. Not just from man to man, but from day to day. Our sperm factory is on 24\7. And our delivery company is ready to ship whatever quantity of sperm is available, as many times as we want it. You guys may have noticed that as you deliver more and more shipments with small intervals between them, the packaging becomes less quality but the delivery still works on demand.
The process is fast. Our cycle doesn't take days, it takes hours. And it doesn't have to be regular either. You can ship today, you can ship next week, or you can keep it in the warehouse. It's not a regular systematic cycle.
However, there IS a feedback loop.
Your factory can tell when it's having a lot of shipments, and this will send a trigger to upper management that more sperm needs to be produced, and faster. Upper management will not decline your request, because all it cares about is turning a profit. It will hire the employees necessary to increase production. And it will make sure that these employees, who otherwise might be working other jobs to help you make a profit, will now focus less on marketing and advertising and more on producing.
In case i lost you guys in the metaphor, here's a key:
The factory would have to be your gonads, the delivery system would have to be your penis and shipping is masturbating, upper management is your hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, employees are your hormones, marketing and advertising would be muscles and secondary sexual characteristics that make you more attractive to the opposite sex and also personality changes that give you more confidence to increase your chances of attracting a mate, and turning a profit simply means spreading your seed (ejaculating).
So basically that story is just to tell you that your hormone levels despite being variable ARE SUBJECT TO CONTROL BASED ON BEHAVIOR because there is FEEDBACK.
The question is how much control can be established by altering behavior? Could the effect surpass that of lowering DHT by finasteride for example? And how long would one have to wait to see effect?
My theory is, when you take finasteride daily you instantly lower your DHT, and then it takes 3months-1 year of lower DHT to see effect.
However when you decrease ejaculation frequency in attempt to reduce DHT, your DHT levels don't regulate to a new lower level until months after that. And then when your DHT level is lowered, you need months again to see the positive impact of that lower DHT level on hair loss.
Which means if you change your ejaculation frequency starting NOW, you will have to wait longer to see an effect than if you start finasteride NOW.
But i believe IN THE LONG TERM, you might achieve a level lower than that with finasteride use, with an effect that lasts longer and most importantly has no adverse effects on your life.
If this proves to be true, instead of taking drugs that FORCIBLY ALTER hormones levels we could take the more protracted but safer and more effective course of NATURALLY ADJUSTING hormone levels.
