i am not poking holes in the theory. There are holes in it. Where is your empirical data?
tissue tension = inflammation
inflamed tissue = more dht for anti-inflammation
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Palmar fascia tissue and cultured cells from patients with Dupuytren's contracture and from normal subjects were characterized and analyzed for androgen receptor expression. Androgen receptors have never been studied in Dupuytren's myofibroblasts and may have a role in its high male...
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Pressure is instrumental in the formation and remodeling of tissues. In humans, pressure varies from the positive pressure wave in the circulatory system to the negative pressure of the thoracic cavity. Measurements in the prostate, of normal and disease states, have shown elevated pressures...
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while dht causes hair growth in tissues normally, when tissue is under chronic stress, as in the above examples, the dht activates the protein tgf1-b and creates fibrosis to protect the tissue
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fibrosis is known to inhibit hair growth anywhere on the body, because it inhibits bloodflow/oxygen to the hair shaft and mechanically, it reduces the area in which the hair can grow. i have a scar along my jaw line from a dog bite and though i have thick dark hair, that scar is still visible under stubble
there's also heavy empirical data proving that male pattern baldness ALWAYS follows the path of maximum tension
Androgenetic alopecia (AGA) is a frequent disorder characterized by progressive hair miniaturization in a very similar pattern among all affected men. The pathogenesis is related to androgen-inducible overexpression of transforming growth factor β-1 ...
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that is, no matter what your skull shape, depending on where the tensile apex is, that is where you, personally, will begin to lose your hair - whatever else might start that cascade, the tension maximizes inflammation in that area, which causes dht to overexpress itself to protect the tissue, thereby causing fibrosis and swelling, reducing oxygenation and ultimately suffocating the hair follicle.
there is resesrch that shows under stretch hair follicles get thicker. This wasnt a theory it was observed in a lab environment.
i don't know what this means
can you elaborate? if you mean pulling your hair is good for your hair, i agree \o/
Theres also the fact people thin on their napes and on the sides their head where the muscle sits. How does mechanical stress apply there?
that sounds like areata. if it's not pattern hair loss, then it's not pattern hair loss. falling out in patches etc seems far more like an autoimmune disease
if you mean people eventually lose hair all over the hair, like a chemo patient - i have never, ever seen that
Also the AGA botox studies used 150 units. Do you realize how much that costs and how easy it is. The work per profit ratio is way better. And its not as permanent it goes away after 6 months. Do the math man. Botox is way more profitable than hair transplants. People have to keep coming in. The risks are lower.
agreed, but like i said - people wouldn't even take a free solution. the fact is, most people want a pill, because it's easy and they don't have to do anything except open up.
The only place ive really seen concrete “evidence” of people claiming hair growth from massages are from a website run by rob. Who is hardcore shilling and that guy happens to have a full head of hair as in he doesnt seem to have ever suffered from AGA.
isn't there even another guy who went about "activating" the muscles via exercises, who also produced years of results? there are a lot of anecdotes online - years ago i found a compilation of people who were massaging and dermarolling, and some were phenomenal
there is so much bogus information and studies on AGA for profit. AGA is one the most highly exploited industries full of snake oil.
yes but common sense and logical discussion tend to keep them at bay. using one study to discredit another, is neither.
Also idk how u can discredit the skull surgeries i showed and say that it does nothing to address the structural so called muscles tension.
take two people pulling on a rope opposing each other. Add a third in the middle pushing the rope up the amount of stress on that third middle individual would be significant and if this theory had merit people would lose hair in those areas..
imagine your head is a balloon and your scalp is a towel. now imagine you put a bouncy ball under the towel, resting on the balloon. do you think the bouncy ball is going to affect the tensile strength required to burst the balloon, by pulling on the towel?
it'll be the same, because the stress is being dissipated by the larger surface area of the balloon, and the bouncy ball, though appearing distinct, is largely negligible.
If scalp massages do work its because they work on increasing blood flow which has also been shown empirically in muscle or because studies show that stretch causes hair to thicken
they also reduce inflammation, edema and fibrosis, three key things associated with mpb
i also know from personal experience that my scalp feels like playdoh normally, unless i eat a lot of fat or sit at the computer too long, then it becomes thick and hard and almost has a feel like pins and needles, the same way, i might get from sitting on my hands and restricting blood flow.