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in today's video we're going to be
talking about things that you can do to
reduce your chances of hair loss I don't
want you guys to think that this video
is the one-stop shop for how you can
actually prevent it completely from
happening because for me to say that
would be incorrect
and I actually just wanted to bring to
the surface a few things that I don't
think it gets talked about enough in the
hair community and it's just really good
to know this kind of stuff so we're
gonna get into that and yeah I don't
think there's really much else I need to
explain so there is many reasons for
hair loss ever since I've been growing
my hair out right I've developed this
obsession with hair growth how it works
how you can make it faster how you can
make it better
all the things but also incorporated
inside that subcategory is hair loss and
why it happens and usually the reason
people go looking for hair growth
products is because they are actually
losing their hair for me I wasn't losing
my hair at all I already had a great
head of hair growing I just wanted to
make it grow faster but it came part and
parcel few things I figured out hair
loss can be caused from like a magnitude
of things right you can have a vitamin
deficiency it could be from stress it
could actually be from a wound like if
you've cut your head open somewhere I
actually am one of those as well I have
a scar on the back of my head that no
one knows about and the reason that got
created was because I was playing
jack-in-the-box once and I fell over hit
my head on the side of the wall and now
I have a scar and there's no hair that
grows in that spot but the most common
cause this is the information that's out
in public the most common cause of male
pattern baldness is a thing called DHT
now I'm gonna try and keep it as less
technical as I possibly can because I
know this isn't a science channel what
DHT is is testosterone that has been
converted into another hormone by an
enzyme right so the enzyme that converts
the testosterone is called alpha v
reductase and it turns test
thrown into DHT so the actual word for
DHT is that's the shortened version but
the actual word is dihydrotestosterone
in like layman's terms it's probably
just testosterone on steroids that's the
best way for me to explain it because
it's the actual hormone that's been
converted into another hormone that does
a certain thing now DHT in our bodies
for males is very needed it helps our
penises form when we're growing in our
mum's tummy and it also helps our balls
drop and it actually helps us grow hair
on our body when we're going through
puberty right but DHT has been proven to
be detrimental to hair growth on the
head so when there's too much DHT
happening in the body it'll attach to
the follicles that are in your scalp and
what it does is it actually strangles
them it shrinks them and as they get
smaller and smaller they get um
healthier the hair cycle gets shorter
and then eventually the actual follicle
just completely disappears which appears
as male pattern baldness that's what's
actually happening and the most
susceptible parts on your head are the
sides and the crown that's why when men
start balding you'll see that that's
where it starts to go first or it starts
to go here make sense right and what's
actually happening is there's too much
DHT going around in their body it's
connecting to those vulnerable parts of
the head and that's why it's happening
so yeah that's a little bit about DHT
how its formed what it does and a few of
the common causes of hair loss but what
can you do to put in place to like
prevent this well there's actually quite
a few options out there and the first
one I would recommend if you're not
losing any hair right now and you want
to know ways that you can do your best
to prevent it I would look in getting a
DHT blocking shampoo if you're
constantly using a DHT blocking shampoo
you're actually doing the best you can
to keep DHT at bay in your scalp which
means it lessens your chances of even
losing any hair from male pattern
baldness
anyway male pattern baldness can also be
like hereditary as well so you can have
a look at your dad's scalp or your mum's
dad scalp I can't remember where it
comes from in the family but if you know
you've got male pattern baldness that
happens in the family I know my dad gets
it especially on these crown look it's
just something to be aware of and if
you're not losing hair yet and you want
to like do your best to prevent it
I would just look at a DHT blocking
shampoo because it's increasing your
chances of not losing hair does that
make sense so but what are the solutions
for people that are losing their hair
you know what I mean
my best advice for that I am NOT a hair
loss professional but my best advice if
you are losing any of you here right now
is to go straight to a hair hair loss
clinic and actually get it diagnosed
because this like over your whole life
every every facet of your life when
there's a problem
if you don't understand the underlying
cause of the problem you're never really
going to be able to fix it properly so
it's in your best interest if you notice
that you're losing hair and you want to
keep it it's best to get straight to a
clinic like that get it diagnosed and
then they can give you the best options
of what to do one of my housemates
actually has been to a hair loss clinic
before to try and get solutions and I
was just exchanging notes with him and I
said oh my god I just found out all this
cool stuff about DHT and da-da-da-da-da
and he actually said oh my god that's
the exact problem that I had when I went
to the hair loss clinic right and then
he pulls out the finasteride and I was
like freaking way
so if finasteride is one of the
treatments that a hair loss clinic can
provide to you and what this what this
treatment does is that lowers the rate
of five alpha that's in your scalp they
also have needles that they can inject
it with it's a little bit like invasive
but what it does is it lowers those
those enzymes so the DHT production
isn't as high therefore the hair loss
doesn't happen as much and my housemate
he said after he started taking the DHT
blocking treatment his hair loss has
actually come to a halt it doesn't
guarantee to grow the hair back but it
slows it down right it slows it down
oh if not it just stops it off there so
you don't lose any more hair which
essentially that is probably the first
step and once you get that there's all
other treatments you can get you can get
the toupees if you want you can get you
can even get hair implants so what they
actually do is they take a piece of you
know your scalp and I'll put it on
wherever you're losing the hair and then
the hair actually binds back in and
starts growing again and because the DHT
is lowered it's actually got a chance to
grow again so there's so many different
things that are available and yeah the
the biggest thing is though is when you
see the problem at straight up because
you really
have to find out what is causing it
before you can actually deal with it
properly it's like anything in your life
oh this is gonna be a lot but I think so
yeah um that's pretty much all I wanted
to bring to the table I just feel like
there's not enough talk about this DHT
problem what causes male pattern
baldness and just the solutions that are
available
I can understand it would be quite scary
for anybody that is losing their hair to
go oh but I don't think they can help me
all I'm embarrassed about it or oh I'm
this and that I understand that
completely but at the same time if you
want your hair and and you want to keep
it growing or you want to do the best
for yourself for it it's probably the
best idea and I would encourage you to
go and try it out because if they can
solve the problem you'll be like
I'm so glad I did that you know what I
mean and then you don't have to suffer
with any more hair loss that's
essentially what I'm getting out there
whether you are losing hair or not I
still would recommend going and checking
out a DHT blocking shampoo you don't
have to do the water man's one I will
leave all the resources that I've gone
and found I've done so much reading I've
even written a blog post on my own
website about this so I'll give you all
the information in the description box
below and it's actually something that's
very very interesting and I'm so glad
I'm finding it all now because yeah I'm
gonna get old one day and I'm gonna
start losing my hair one day I guarantee
it and you know if I'm gonna run this
channel I kind of thought that to be
happening so it's in my best interest to
you know and it's just good to educate
people and myself on what's going on out
there and what's available if you want
to be a part of my facebook group where
we talk all about hair there will be a
link in the description box below you
just go to the chat bot and chat bot
will give you the link and it'll sort
you out from there it's pretty
self-explanatory and I'd really like to
see you in there um other than that yeah
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