This Hair Growth Protocol Is Crazy Effective

Did you know that up to 85% of men will experience hair loss and thinning as by the age of 50? Coincidentally, about 83% of men watching this channel are also men. In this video, I'm going to give you an evidence-based hair growth stack to combat hair thinning and receding. I'll cover things like finasteride, microneedling, DHT, peptides and much more. This video is very useful for women as well because they also can experience hair thinning and hair loss and the techniques apply to both sexes. To manage your expectations, you probably won't be able to go from bald to Mufasa, but I am going to share the results from studies where people went from pretty bad to quite impressive results within only a few months, all of which is achievable for people watching this as well. Let's begin with DHT, the devil in hair loss. One of the most common theories of hair loss in men is that DHT, or dehydrotestosterone, which is the primary androgen in the body, causes hair follicles to fall out. That's why male pattern baldness is called androgenic alopecia. However, DHT is not the real reason for hair loss, as I'll cover shortly. Quick overview of DHT, free testosterone in the blood, can be converted into 5-alpha-DHT by the enzyme 5-alpha-reductase. DHT has a crucial role for physical development and puberty as it governs things like penis growth, prostate growth, facial hair growth, pubic hair, etc. That's why boys have massive surges in DHT during puberty, but DHT should drop lower after puberty. Some of the most common medications for hair loss, like finasteride, counteract DHT. Finasteride is a 5-alpha-reductase inhibitor that reduces the conversion of testosterone into DHT by up to 60%. This has been seen to reduce androgenic alopecia and benign prostate growth. It is true that finasteride helps with hair loss. It can also make your hair grow as long as the hair follicles are still intact, but it doesn't work for everyone and you have to keep taking finasteride to keep the hair. Finasteride can also have some nasty side effects, such as erectile dysfunction, decreased libido and premature ejaculations as shown by a 2010 Cochrane review of randomness control trials. In one of the largest reviews, they found that 1.4% developed persistent erectile dysfunction. Now I'm not going to tell you whether or not you should take finasteride, this is a conversation you should have with your doctor. And I'm not trying to scare you away from using finasteride because it does work for preventing hair loss, but it doesn't address the underlying cause of hair loss. The thing with DHT is that it still promotes hair growth in other parts of the body, such as the beard, chest, forearms, etc. The only place where DHT appears to result in hair loss is on the scalp. The exact reason why DHT appears to result in hair loss in the scalp and not anyone else is not really clear. There is one theory that skull bone growth during puberty causes chronic scalp tension in men, which causes chronic muscle contraction in the scalp and chronic inflammation. This leads to a cascade of fibrosis and calcification that restricts follicle growth and reduces oxygenation and blood flow in the scalp, eventually leading to malnutrition of hair follicles, which makes them fall out. It's been seen in mouse studies that DHT does migrate to inflammation and burn wounds to help to resolve the inflammation. So it might be that DHT migrates to the scalp because of this chronic inflammation caused by chronic muscle tension in the scalp. That scalp tension comes from the bone growth that you experience after puberty. That could explain why hair loss happens in the head, not anywhere else. So what are you going to do about that? Does it mean that you have to start massaging your scalp every day to reduce the muscle tension? You would imagine that there's no way that this could work. But you would be surprised to hear that scalp massaging has been seen to increase hair thickness and hair growth in human studies by upregulating genes related to hair growth and downregulating genes related to hair loss. A 2019 study, although based on self-assessments, found that 68.9% of men who did daily scalp massage for 11-20 minutes reported hair loss reduction or hair regrowth. There was a positive association between the amount of self-reported minutes of scalp massaging and self-perceived hair changes. Reducing muscle tension in the scalp and directing blood flow to the scalp to the head is one of the fundamental ways you can counteract hair loss. It's the fundamental in my opinion because it relieves the muscle tension that leads to the chronic inflammation that makes DHT make your hair fall out. In the rest of this video, I'm going to give you specific protocols to address this issue of relieving muscle tension in the head as well as increasing blood flow to the scalp to promote hair growth. Check out the timestamps in the description if you want to jump into a specific part of the video. Also, did you know that 53% of you watching aren't subscribed? What are you waiting for? Click to subscribe so you don't miss out future videos. The first intervention I want to talk about is the Biopixelin serum by Scandinavian Biolabs who are also kind enough to sponsor this video. I had seen a lot of people talk about Scandinavian Biolabs online and they've shared their results for hair growth after using the Biopixelin serum for only 3 months. Some of the transformations are quite impressive. Scandinavian Biolabs has completed a 150-day clinical trial where 30 healthy volunteers between the age of 18 and 65 saw a reduction in hair loss and an increase in hair capillary density. This means that there is more hair follicles per square centimeter and the hair is more dense. By the end of the 150 days, 97% of the volunteers saw a reduction in hair shedding and 93% of the volunteers saw a reduction in hair loss. The average reduction in hair loss was 28%. Their hair density also increased by 73%. 90% of the volunteers also saw a positive effect in the anagen phase which is the growth phase of hair follicles. The anagen phase increased on average by 17.5%. 87% of the participants saw a reduction in the telogen phase which refers to the phase where the hair isn't growing anymore and this phase decreased by on average 36.5%. These are quite impressive results. So what's the secret sauce of Biopixelin? The main ingredients in the Biopixelin serum are curcuma longa or turmeric and niacinamide which is a form of vitamin B3 or niacin. There are also other studies specifically on topical turmeric and niacinamide. In a 2005 pilot study, topical niacin for 6 months increased hair fullness in women with female pattern alopecia. A 2022 clinical trial saw that a topical mixture of curcumin, piperine and capsaicin for 3 months increased hair growth in 19 patients with alopecia areata also known as spot baldness. The effects were similar to minoxidil, a common hair loss medication. Biopelixin also has other ingredients such as caffeine which is a known ingredient for stimulating blood flow and hair growth. It also has eucalyptus, glycine, arginine, zinc and other essential amino acids which are needed nutrients for the hair. It's simple to use. You apply two pipettes across your hair and massage it in with your fingers. Because the serum contains niacinamide, caffeine and curcumin, it feels spicy for a few minutes on the scalp. That tingling feeling is what stimulates blood flow to the scalp and stimulates hair growth. I recommend getting their Hair Activation Kit that includes the Biopelixin Serum, Biopelixin Shampoo and Biopelixin Conditioner for a scientifically tested and validated combo for hair growth. If you don't see results, then you have a 150-day money-back guarantee, but you do have to use Biopelixin for at least 3-5 months before seeing significant results. So head over to ScandinavianBiolabs.com and use the code SEAMLUND for a 20% discount. You have a 150-day money-back guarantee. This brings me to microneedling which has also been seen to benefit skin anti-aging and hair growth. Microneedling is a dermatological technique that causes microtrauma to the skin with small needles on a dermarolling device. It triggers collagen synthesis and skin repair. You can use a dermaroller or a dermapen for that. In this 2013 pilot study, they gave one group 5% minoxidil twice a day and the second group minoxidil together with weekly microneedling. As you can see from the pictures, the group getting minoxidil alone did see some minor improvements in hair growth, but the microneedling plus minoxidil group saw much more results. Another 2015 study took 4 men with hair loss who were taking finasteride and minoxidil for 2-5 years already, but they saw no new hair growth. They were then put on microneedling for 6 months. All 4 patients showed plus 2 to plus 3 improvements on a 7-point scale and the new hair started showing after 8-10 sessions. The reason why dermarolling works better if you combine it with things like Biopelixin or minoxidil is because the microneedling opens up these channels inside the skin that enables the ingredients to go deeper into the skin where they have the effects. And microneedling also triggers collagen synthesis by up to 400%, which is another reason for new hair growth and skin anti-aging. What about minoxidil alone? A 2002 randomness control trial saw that 5% topical minoxidil was superior to 2% minoxidil in increasing hair regrowth and it showed an earlier response time to hair growth. Minoxidil does have effects on inhibiting 5-alpha reductase, but it's not nearly as effective as finasteride. Minoxidil is technically an adenosine 5-triphosphate sensitive potassium channel opener that has vasodilating effects, which means that it promotes blood flow and lowers blood pressure. That's why I think minoxidil can be effectively used in combination with microneedling. Minoxidil sometimes is associated with sexual side effects, but they're much less common than with finasteride, which already is a single-digit percentage. However, some people are sensitive to the blood pressure-lowering effects of minoxidil and they can get allergic reactions to it. Next, I want to talk about peptides, such as BPC-157 and copper peptide GHK. Studies have shown that BPC-157 has promising effects on healing various tissues, such as the tendons, ligaments, muscles, and even bones. When it comes to the mechanisms, then BPC-157 supports nitric oxide and thus blood flow. It upregulates growth hormone, which promotes recovery, and it also increases collagen synthesis. Because BPC-157 stimulates blood flow, you can apply it topically to your scalp to increase blood flow in the scalp. It's going to be especially effective if you do it after dermarolling. You might wonder if it's going to work topically without ingesting the peptide, but the answer is yes. There are studies with topical BPC improving healing from burn wounds and skin lesions. I made a video about BPC-157, if you're interested in that, you can check it out here. Next, we have another peptide called copper peptide GHK. Copper peptide GHK is with an amino acid bond of glyceyl-L-histidyl-L-lysine, and it's been seen to stimulate blood vessel growth, nerve growth, increase collagen and elastin synthesis, as well as hair follicle growth. In cell studies, copper peptide stimulates the growth of human hair follicles by stimulating the proliferation and preventing the death of dermal papilla cells, which are fibroblasts specialized for human hair follicle growth. You can apply copper peptide as well topically to your scalp, and the best time to do it would be after you do microneedling. Another peptide that might induce hair growth is thymosin beta-4. It's been seen to support hair growth via stem cell migration, angiogenesis, the growth of new blood vessels, and wound healing. In rat and mice models, thymosin beta-4 has been seen to promote hair growth. The last intervention I talk about before outlining the complete protocol is Rayleigh therapy, also called low-level laser therapy LLLT. It essentially involves shining certain wavelengths of light with lasers on your scalp or skin. A 2013 randomness control trial on men with androgenic alopecia saw that shining 655 nanometers of light to the scalp every other day for 25 minutes for 16 weeks significantly improved hair count by 39%. The hair count in the light therapy group increased from 142 to 228, whereas the hair count in the placebo group stayed the same at 162. Another 2014 double-blind randomness control trial saw that applying 655 nanometers of light to the scalp of 24 women with androgenic alopecia improved hair count. The hair counts in the group getting the light therapy increased from 209 to 309, whereas in the sham therapy group, the hair count increased only from 228 to 252, so that's significantly less than in the light therapy group. To sum up the major studies on this topic, a 2021 meta-analysis of 7 randomness control trials concluded that at-home low-level laser therapy devices are potentially effective for pattern hair loss. These devices are slightly different than regular red light therapy devices. Only about 32 of them are FDA approved for hair loss, and the retail cost is somewhere between $279 up to $3,000. You've seen me talk about red light therapy devices before, which have evidence for skin collagen synthesis and reversal of skin aging. They also appear to have effects for joint healing and inflammation reduction. For the scalp and hair specifically, they increase hair growth by triggering collagen synthesis, reducing inflammation, and stimulating blood flow. Now, most people don't have a red light cap at home, they usually have a red light panel like this one. So theoretically, you could get the same wavelengths of light to your scalp, but you would have to pretty much touch your scalp with this device to mimic having a red light cap or a low-level laser therapy cap. So theoretically, it could work, although there's no direct evidence that using a red light panel like this one would support hair growth. Although you're getting the same wavelengths of light as you would with these FDA devices, I don't think that there would be technically much difference. But you would still have to use it for something like 20 minutes a day and shooting it pretty close to your head to target the scalp. Just make sure your device has 650 to 660 nanometers of light, because that's the wavelength of light that's been seen to work. Another reason red light therapy is good is because we're exposed to excessive amounts of artificial blue light. Not only does blue light from screens damage your eyes and skin, but it's also been seen to inhibit the proliferation of hair follicle stem cells, which can reduce hair growth. Naturally, from the sun, you get blue and red light together, but in the modern world, we're pretty isolated from red light. These face lamps, these artificial computer screens, phones, they all emit blue light without the red light, which is why you're getting excessive amounts of artificial blue light that damages your eyes, damages your skin, and now we also have evidence that it damages your hair. So that's one of the reasons why a lot of people nowadays are going bald. They're getting exposed to excessive amounts of blue light without the red light. All right, I've gone through all the main interventions for targeting hair loss and stimulating hair growth. Now I'm going to give you an actual protocol that you can follow. Scalp tension and lack of blood flow might be one of the primary reasons why DHT causes hair loss specifically in the scalp, but not anywhere else in the body. For that, I think it's very effective to do scalp massage for at least 10 minutes a day. You can either use these scalp massaging devices, or you can just use your fingers. 10 minutes a day is going to relieve muscle tension in the scalp, it's going to reduce inflammation in the scalp, it's also going to stimulate blood flow to the scalp. And this is something that 99% of people never do, like there's no muscles they train for their scalp. Yes, you can move your scalp a little bit if you have some good muscle coordination in that area, but unless you actually stimulate it with your fingers or with a massager, then 99% of people never have actual blood flow directed to their scalp, which is why that area tends to become quite tense. Secondly, microneedling once a week across your hairline and areas of concern is going to trigger microwounds that then promote collagen synthesis and hair growth. If you're doing microneedling for your face, then why not do it for your hair too? Third, the daily serum stack would be Scandinavian Biolabs Biopilexin. You apply it twice a day, once in the morning and once in the evening, two pipettes each. Massage it in with your fingers or a massager. If you do use minoxidil, then you can probably apply it at the same time. Fourth, topical copper peptide and BPC-157 are more advanced compounds and they're more expensive. I don't think you need to jump into peptides immediately. You have much lower hanging fruit that you can do first, such as microneedling and the Biopilexin serum. You can try those first before trying any peptides. Raylight therapy is also quite impactful, especially if you're not getting a lot of natural raylight exposure. Like I said, you can make a regular raylight therapy device work by targeting your scalp, but there are also some FDA approved caps out there. You do that once a day for 20-30 minutes, ideally in the morning. I would do the raylight therapy after having applied the serums and the peptides. And lastly, finasteride, it definitely works. Should it be your first option? I don't think so. You can try these things first to see if you can remedy hair loss or make your hair grow with more natural interventions that don't have side effects, such as finasteride. Although finasteride would still probably be very useful for people who have advanced hair loss. Alright, that's it for this video. Make sure to check out my video about dermarolling to know the correct technique for doing it on the skin. And check out the sponsor of this video, Scandinavian Biolabs, for their Biopilexin serum. Link in the description for a 20% discount. Other than that, thanks for watching this video. 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