Cold Treatments for male pattern baldness

[Aker]

I'm wondering why there aren't more (or any?) treatments that are based around keeping your scalp cool in order to produce hair. If hair is mainly there to keep heat in, and it's known that hair grows on the bodies of anorexics in order to keep them warm...why wouldn't it help grow hair in the case of male pattern baldness?

 

[michael barry]

you stated "and it's known that hair grows on the bodies of anorexics in order to keep them warm...why wouldn't it help grow hair in the case of male pattern baldness?"



IM lazy tonight my friend. Could you look up a couple of links that detail that or at least affirm it? That would be interesting if so. I'll check back in a couple of days to see if you come up with something. Good luck.

 

[bubka]

whats this about hair and anorexics again lol

 

[Aker]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanugo

 

[michael barry]

Aker,

That is interesting. Languno hairs arent the caliber we are looking for, but its incredible how the body can 'make things happen' none the less.


Cold packs are used topically in chemo patients to help them keep their hair. If you google cold packs or ice packs, chemotherapy, hair or hairloss..............you should get a few links to that effect.

Dr. Nasser Razak, in his book about hairloss, noted that ice-pack carriers in .............SIberia I think---ask Stephen Foote----got very hairy backs from carrying the ice. I thought that was interesting. However, lots of folks get abnormally hairy growth on arms after wearing casts over them for a couple of months from a broken bone so...................


If youre really intrigued by the idea and planning on trying to put a cold pack on your head for perhaps an hour a day or so......................I hope you take pictures of before and after and give it a good 6 months. Perhaps you can discover something for us.

 

[bubka]

no sh*t, i have heard of hose hairs on babies that are born, usually fall all out right away, not anorexics

but thats a totally different hair then what you want on your head all together

 

[person_123]

I think that would be a temporary treatment, because as soon as the cold is removed, we'd have heat rushing to the head again. Also, cold area's would result in less blood flow. Less blood flow means less nutrients being supplied to hair. I've heard that DHT travels in blood?, I'm not sure if this is true but even so, what's the difference between starving your hair of food, or poisoning it?

Another reason why it wouldn't work: You'd have brain damage before you have temperatures cold enough to induce hair growth. I'd rather be able to speak than have a full head of hair.

All that aside, in my most desperate hours, I have tried putting ice packs on my head. Didn't really lead to anything though. It was a really hot day, and I thought, might as well cool myself down and see if this does anything.

 

[IBM]

I weight around 110 pounds, 1,70m and i dont have any of languno hair. Also i take cold water shower.

 

[Aker]

I unfortunately don't know much terminology about hair loss, so I don't know what lanugo or vellus hairs actually are!

I do, however, have experience being around someone who is anorexic, and I know most of their problems and such, so I was thinking about the hair growth thing...

Anyway, thank you guys for posting, it's fun to look into these things.

 

[powersam]

cold treatments increase blood flow rather than decrease it. the alternation of hot and cold has long been used by sports doctors to decrease healing time for injuries

 

[wookster]

:freaked: :freaked: :freaked:

Some feral children are found covered with hair. I wonder if exposure to cold could cause the condition?

http://www.feralchildren.com/en/hypertrichosis.php