Michael Regilio
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard 12 Jul
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Hair loss has probably been happening very slowly since 30, but at 50, you start to notice. Bright overhead lights become your enemy. Hair goes through three stages of its life cycle. The first phase is called the antigen phase, and that's where the hair is still growing.
Interestingly, the antigen phase for the hair on your head is up to eight years, which is why you can grow your hair so long, while the antigen phase of an eyebrow is just a couple months.
As a comic, I have to say I'm very impressed. That might have been the first antigen phase joke in history. Phase two is called the catagen phase. This is where the hair is growing dormant and is dying from the inside out.
We should be celebrating that. Okay. Phase three is called the telogen phase. The hair pinches off and dies. Some hairs can reenter the life cycle. Others can't. Scientists now understand that it's hormones that drive these phases. Hormones are the drivers and the brakes on these processes. Hormones determine if you're a shag rug or a hardwood floor.
I'm getting way outside of my pay grade here, but... dihydrotestosterone, or DHT, which comes from testosterone, is a hormone. And I'm totally oversimplifying here, but DHT can send your hair into the telogen phase, and that's bad.
Well, women, by the way, also have testosterone. In fact, I learned that women have more testosterone than estrogen, but they have more estrogen than men. But testosterone, that's for everybody.
And you're asking the wrong guy because, again, this is way past my pay grade, but I did actually ask the same question. And the answer I got was that it's the conversion of testosterone to DHT. As men age, they have more DHT, which causes hair loss. The other thing that causes hair loss is decreased blood flow to the scalp. A healthy blood flow replenishes nutrients and oxygen.
Understanding these mechanisms built the entire hair growth industry.
Yes, but let's go in order of potential side effects. This is a good place to mention that a lot of these treatments work best in tandem with other treatments. One thing that works really well with other treatments has almost no side effects, and that is microneedling. Have you heard of it?
Yeah, well, I was surprised. I hadn't heard of it either, but microneedling is, it's like a kind of acupuncture for your scalp, except it seems to work.
And it kind of is. Microneedling is using a roller device of really small needles to micropuncture the skin, which promotes blood flow, which in turn promotes hair growth.
Yeah, apparently it can. In fact, it can even bleed, which is still better than the side effects of modern drugs.
Sure, yeah, there actually are, and they're not all placebos. Some herbal remedies have been studied, like salt palmetto. Oh, I've heard of that. This herb is being investigated for its potential to inhibit the enzyme which converts testosterone into DHT.
We're going to get into the enzyme because it does some really interesting stuff that we're going to get into in a sec. But the fact of the matter is saw palmetto might actually work. So might laser treatments, which are being studied. The lasers are thought to have an anti-inflammatory effect on the scalp and promote hair loss.
But either way, you're getting zapped in your head with a laser and that's pretty sci-fi, kind of cool. Kind of how I imagined all medical procedures will look like in the future someday.
I saw it, yeah.
Yeah, that would be weird if the cure for baldness was a drug we had all along, like caffeine, which, in fact, turns out to be an effective treatment for growing hair.
Just because I've had a conversation with a Mormon recently about this. It's not caffeine that they're not allowed to have. It's hot drinks, which was interpreted as coffee and tea. And most Mormons are soda pop addicts.
Full of caffeine.
Anyway, you said drinking, and that was your mistake, because who said anything about drinking? This is caffeine that you would apply directly to your scalp.
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