Your washing and fap habits? personal experiment starting

[sachalamp]

I am not trying to be a jerk, I am really not. With the condition of your hair, you really don't have time to waste on your plan. I understand and have no problem if you do not want to risk taking meds, but your plan will not change the condition of your hair at all.



Like Mike said, not washing your hair is gross.

I know my hair is not in good condition, and i expect and hope this will change in a couple of months. It is possible it will take 1-2 years, even 6, but i will persevere. My current estimate on noticing some degree of improvement is 2 to 4 months.

Not washing is gross is a product of exceptional and persistent marketing schemes that resulted in shifts in people's views. There was no shampoo up until the last century. People probably washed their hair with homemade soap, if that, the day the went to church or sunday gatherings. Even in the 60s, women used to get their hair washed weekly at salons, not at home. I don't think washing hair every other day was even conceivable. The more you think about the nowdays normality, the less normal it sounds.

Rinsing with coldish water probably happened more often.

[fred970]

And so, what is your point exactly?

[walrus]

There is no study on this as far as i know.

Says it all.

[sachalamp]

And so, what is your point exactly?

My point is that not only are men balding but we are paying big bucks to speed up the process.

Says it all.

It doesn't for me.


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I want to correct a piece of information in the op. In a casual conversation with my mother yesterday, she remembered i did use a 5a reductase for one or two weeks at the age of 21-23. I had many mixed feelings about it though, but unfortunately this is the only information i had remembered while writing the op. I did some of my annual blood tests after that and tga or tgp markers were pretty high (i will look for the papers). I don't remember the exact timeline though, but it's very likely that i stoped because of that too.

As an update, i would like to bring into attention that going cold turkey on masturbation/sexual fantasy on people using 5a reductase could prove dangerous and could lead to sexual as well as general health issues. I do not know if this applies to minoxidil users, but as a rule of thumb, i would advise no hair loss medication on this regimen. Best thing, as i am fairly sure this is the case already, is to let me give it a go.

[Aphrodite]

You keep mentioning that people didn't wash their hair as frequently way back when. I'd just like to point out, men were still going bald then. MPB is not a recent finding.

[sachalamp]

I'm sure they were, but please keep in mind that shampooing is not the only factor.

Incidence aside, which i personally believe has gone up, what i'm most intrigued about is the early onset and aggression of today's mpb.

[35YrsAfter]

You keep mentioning that people didn't wash their hair as frequently way back when. I'd just like to point out, men were still going bald then. MPB is not a recent finding.

Historians can only take a wild stab at how many centuries MPB goes back. The following is dated between 970 and 560 BC:

2 Kings 2:23-24
Elisha Is Jeered

23 From there Elisha went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, some boys came out of the town and jeered at him. “Get out of here, baldy!” they said. “Get out of here, baldy!” 24 He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them in the name of the Lord. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the boys.

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[walrus]

I'm sure they were, but please keep in mind that shampooing is not the only factor.

You have yet to provide evidence that shampooing is even a factor at all.

Incidence aside, which i personally believe has gone up, what i'm most intrigued about is the early onset and aggression of today's mpb.

Personally believing something does not make it true.