In 2004 or 5 I discovered that DHT was a culprit in the onset of male pattern baldness, and patients who took an anti-DHT pill to treat hairloss reported loss of sex drive. So, I surmised there was a link between DHT production and sex drive, and assumed that giving up masturbating would cause DHT levels to drop and allow my hair to grow back.
So, back in 2004 or 5, I refrained from masturbating for 3 or 4 months, and to my great surprise I started to notice small blonde hairs growing on my hairline where it was previously bald. As time went by, more hair regrew and became thicker and darker. However, I soon slipped back into my old ways of excessive masturbation and my hair began to recede again. I have decided to re-embark on my program, but this time - along with my new discoveries - I am going to see it right through until my hair is completely restored.
Please excuse me if you're already familiar with the information contained in this paragraph, but just to briefly explain why excessive masturbating can contribute to male pattern baldness: Each time we become sexually aroused, the prostate gland produces an enzyme called 5 alpha reductase. This Enzyme converts testosterone into dyhydrotestosterone -- a more potent version of regular testosterone. OK, so when we masturbate, heart rate naturally increases and so does body heat. 35 to 40% of body heat is released from small sweat glands attached to the hair follicles of the scalp; this is why we feel lots of heat around our temples/hairlines when we masturbate or when we do any other physical activity which causes us to produce body heat.
Now each time this DHT filled blood rushes to the head, DHT is prone to building up within the blood vessels connecting to the follicles and therefore causing clogging. This clogging doesn't solely happen through masturbating, but other contributory factors are involved as I will now delve into.
In addition to the DHT/masturbating dilemma, I discovered something else, which I advise you to take serious notice of: the scalp contains two muscle groups we lay on when we sleep. Hair loss never occurs where these muscles are situated.
Please click on these links and look at the muscles I am talking about:
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Notice the familiar egg-in-the-nest effect when a man goes through the advanced stages of pattern baldness, i.e., the hair disappears at the top, but remains around the lower back and sides? The temporalis muscle and the occiptalis muscle provide lots of oxygen to the hairs situated on the layers of skin covering these muscles, so DHT is easily metabolised here and doesn't clog the follicles. However, there are no muscle groups in the upper region of the scalp, so oxygen levels are minimal compared to the lower scalp, thus making it more prone to DHT clogging.
This upper region is called the Galea Aponeurotica:
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Now, consider this: how long do we sleep on average? Around about 8 hours per night, yes? Now the head is the heaviest part of the body, and if follicles are heavily compressed by the weight of our heads against a pillow for 8 hours per night, oxygen and blood circulation would be massively reduced to them.
DHT builds up as you sleep because your hairline and upper scalp is compressed against a pillow. So, if you want DHT to clear from your scalp and achieve hair regrowth, you must not sleep on this vulnerable area of the scalp. Instead, fix your pillows so that you are sleeping only on the scalp muscles provided in the links, and allow the galea to hang over the edge of your pillow.
When we sleep on the upper temples a large artery situated around the hairline (the temporalis artery) is compressed against the pillow. When this artery is compressed against a pillow for the whole time we sleep metabolism is lowered to the surrounding cells and DHT is more prone to building up and clogging (this is why our hairlines begin to recede, due to the temples being compressed against the pillow).
The problem is made worse if you masturbate just before you go to sleep because this DHT filled blood goes to the scalp, and your scalp can't metabolize this DHT because it is compressed against a pillow for hours. So if you have to masturbate on that rare occasion, make sure you NEVER do it before you go to bed, instead do it when your metabolism is active so that blood will effectively circulate and minimize the chances of DHT build up in the scalp.
Also - very importantly: when you're sleeping, make sure that your bedroom is well ventilated, so that fresh oxygen is always being supplied to your cells, otherwise you will be breathing in waste carbon dioxide gases you've breathed out. When carbon dioxide is breathed in, it forms into carbonic acid in the blood. Any cells which have difficulty in receiving oxygen will be prone to carbon acid build up, and will begin to inflame.
Now, the follicles of the scalp (of baldinng men) are oxygen deficient because they are clogged with DHT, so they will be highly prone to the effects of carbonic acid, and thus will be first to become inflamed.You may have noticed that when you're losing your hair you experience a prickly stinging sensation around your hairline or any area where hairloss occurs; this is caused by carbonic acid inflaming your follicles, due to (oxygen deficiency). Simply put airloss causes hairloss.
While we're on the subject of sleep; I have to tell you that it is very, very important to get to bed early, especially after a long, hard day day at work. If you burn the midnight oil too much, then you are prone to exhaustion and premature aging because you're body is in oxygen/nutrient debt; carbonic acid will build up in cells and you will suffer worse hairloss. So if you want carbonic acids to be kept very low, then you must make sure that oxygen levels are completely restored to your cells, and this is achieved through plenty of sleep.
Another theory in the onset of baldness (which I agree is a major contributory factor) is skull size. When the skull is larger than average, the skin of the scalp will be slightly tighter than normal, which would naturally lower the levels of blood circulation and therefore oxygen to cells. And as I previously explained, cells lower in oxygen are more prone to carbonic acid build up. And let's not forget, cells lower in oxygen will have lower metabolism, circulation will be slower and DHT clogging is more likely. But if you sleep without the galea (upper temples and scalp) compressed against a pillow, then circulation will be increased to the galea and DHT will begin clear away.
Also, over production of adrenaline can lead to a tighter scalp because adrenaline acts as a vasoconstrictor to skin cells, and a vasodilator to skeletal muscles. So... adrenaline lowers blood circulation to skin cells, and increases it to muscle groups. If adrenaline is not discharged from the body (via physical activity), then it will naturally build up and make the skin become tighter.
You may have noticed that in bald men the scalp looks shinier than men who have hair. This shininess occurs because of tightness largely caused by adrenaline making the skin cells tighter. When we are chronically stressed out we produce more adrenaline, which then causes heart rate and blood pressure to increase. When this happens blood rushes to the head in order to release body heat from the small sweat glands attached to the follicles, and so the skin of the scalp becomes a target site for adrenaline build up, thus causing the follicles to enter into a permanent state of contraction.
So, in a nutshell:
DHT itself does not destroy follicles, it is down to the major clogging it causes which reduces oxygen to the follicle. Oxygen deficiency causes a buildup of carbonic acid, which then damages the cell through inflammation.
1) Masturbate as little as possible to reduce DHT build up within the scalp.
2) Never sleep on the galea aponeurotica region of the scalp (always sleep on the scalp muscles), so that blood circulation increases to the hairline and upper scalp in general.
3) Always get plenty of sleep to restore oxygen levels to cells, so that carbonic acids are low.
4) Try to relax so that adrenaline levels are minimalized, and the cells of the upper scalp will dilate and allow more blood circulation.
5) (I forgot to touch upon this): Eat a healthy diet. Eating a healthy balanced diet really does help in making the hair healthy.
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Drink black tea. The Harvard study also found that black tea decreased DHT formation. Green tea might be beneficial as well, the study noted, but black tea produced more benefit.
