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Respected sir,

I am XX from India, age 23 male. My problems are that I don’t have complete baldness problem. like before my hair growth was very good nice curly hair thick hair and I don’t have genetic hair baldness because my father age is 51 he has got normal hair .my problems is that the growth, thickness, hair fall and like more hair I hope u understand  this thing r missing . One more reason is that I have tension .well I don’t used more shampoo or any chemical but some time I used hair gel and that also I stop .so please tell what the cure or any vitamins  please help me out .

A:

Hi there,

Age 23 is the time that most people with male pattern hair loss start seeing some degrees of baldness. You did also mention that your father is not bald. Although it could be related to men’s hair loss in its typical form or male patterned alopecia is a genetic condition, many people may not find baldness in their immediate relatives. In other words, the gene expression for hair loss may skip some generations. A small group of men with hair loss may suffer from other types of hair loss such as alopecia areata, cicatricial alopecia or other rare balding conditions.

You need to see a good hair specialist who can examine your hair and come up with an accurate diagnosis for your hair loss condition before you can start on any hair loss medication or treatment. I generally spend around one hour with every new patient to evaluate the hair loss and to come up with a proper treatment plan in our California hair transplant centers. Most shampoos, conditioners, lotions or vitamins that are extensively marketed for hair loss do not really help stop the hair loss or re-grow hair. If you have male patterned baldness, there are some medications that can stop your hair loss. You may as well need a hair transplant to restore the hair that cannot be restored by means of medical treatment.

A Los Angeles Hair Restoration patient asked me today about Kevis products for medical hair loss treatment in men the other day. His father used to use those hair loss products when he was in Europe and He recommended that he can use them as well. I had to do some research on the website of the company to find out what are the ingredients of this presumed hair loss medication.

Kevis products are claimed to be natural and chemical drug-free. They work through the biological compound, hyaluronic acid, which is found in eyes and joints in its highest concentration.

Kevis uses a high-molecular-weight product called HUCP, to address hair loss and follicular mal-nutrition. HUCP is claimed that it directly impacts hair follicles, cuticles, and shafts in a positive way, bringing about stronger, thicker, and healthier hair. HUCP also hydrates and balances the moisture levels in hair and the skin of the scalp.

Kevis hair loss prevention and hair care products gently clean hair and selectively remove residue from the scalp, encouraging follicular health and greater natural hair production.

It is all nice to have a product to help cleaning the scalp and the root of our hair and also to keep the moisture to the hair shaft, but neither dryness nor dirtiness of hair is the cause of hair loss. I could not find a significant research on the effect of any of those ingredients on the health and growth of hair. We at our Los Angeles hair transplant clinics of US Hair Restoration recommend products with solid medical research showing their effectiveness and safety.

Can shampooing affect our hair loss? Can I hurt my hair by doing too much washing and shampooing? Is there a shampoo that can help the growth of my hair? These are some questions that patients ask me in my office on a daily basis.

The answer is simple. The external factor such as shampoos and conditioners cannot really affect the growth or fall of your hair much. You can wash your hair on a regular basis with shampoos if you have oily scalp and greasy hair. You can choose special shampoos for that matter as well; shampoos that have a stronger cleansing effect for oily scalps. You cannot possibly hurt your hair by washing your hair if you are not having obsessive compulsive disorder. Not washing hair may cause you to lose your partners or friends, but it does not affect your hair strength much.

You can find many different shampoos in the market with the claim of helping your hair growth and preventing further hair loss. Unfortunately most those statements are not quite accurate. Even using the shampoos with some effective ingredients such as minoxidil or DHT blockers chemicals cannot be that effective on preventing your hair loss. The active ingredients of the shampoos cannot freely enter the skin and even if they can be absorbed to some degrees, they cannot reach the generative layers of the skin. The contact time of the shampoo and conditioner with the skin is also limited that does not allow for the ingredients to penetrate the skin.

My suggestion to those patients is to stick with whatever shampoo that they are comfortable with and not to change the shampoo because of the miracle shampoo advertisement they saw on the news paper.