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I notice from your picture that you seem to have some hair loss, so maybe you're the wrong person to ask. But I've been losing my hair since I was 25-years-old and I want to know the straight story on baldness remedies. Is there anything natural that has been proven to work?

—Brian

It's nice of you to point out my diminishing hairline, but it's actually a new non-surgical forehead augmentation. This pioneering cosmetic procedure is the latest West Coast trend and I hear they're about to sign a celebrity spokesperson. I'm told negotiations are on-going with retired Starfleet Captain William Shatner. Unfortunately, the deal breaker seems to be removing his pet tribble, named Denial, from the top of his head for the photo shoot.

Folklore regarding hair loss and regrowth is often given as free advice from well-meaning, but uninformed family and co-workers. Probably the most common myth is that wearing a hat will speed the loss of your hair. The fact many balding men wear hats as camouflage serves mainly to confuse the issue. Shaving your head won't make your hair grow back thick and curly, and scalp massage and pore cleansers do nothing except feel blissfully intoxicating on a freshly shorn head. As 50 percent of men and 25 percent of women will find out, typical hair loss is genetic and cannot be avoided except by changing your parents. And, if wishing for different parents didn't work when you were a teen-ager, it's not going to happen now.

The short story on hair loss is that the male hormone testosterone, present also in females, is converted into a second hormone called dihydrotestosterone (DHT). Although important in many ways, DHT causes hair follicles located on the crown and front of the genetically predisposed head to shrink or weaken, or to stop growing hair altogether. While historical cures for baldness may be interesting, they were also sticky, smelly and completely worthless.

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