I’ve been noticing lately that there are a lot more celebrities making hair changes. The most recent is a certain unwieldy basketball star who just switched teams AND his hairline! Media is trying to decide…did he have a hair transplant, start taking a pill, start using a topical medication or start using a laser hair brush for hair loss? We may never know exactly, but I’m betting on a combo of Rogaine and laser hair therapy. Let me tell you why.
Hair transplants
They have been around for a long while now. At first, they were considered the best treatment for thinning hair. Hairs from other parts of the head are literally transplanted to the front hairline to fill in where balding is occurring. This sometimes gave the appearance of a patch of hair from someone else stuck on the front of one’s head, and there were patchy spots there and in the areas from where the hair was taken.
There were also scars that started to form in the donor sites as time went by. Basically now the person’s head was just thinning all over. Now, however, they are using robotics to image, harvest and replant hairs in a much more miniature and precise pattern so that the looks are much improved. Of course, with this comes a heftier price tag and it IS a surgery. The price tag is not a big thing for a basketball star…but it may be for the rest of us!
Next is Propecia (Finasteride), an oral medication that can be taken by men and post-menopausal women. One must take this continually for any effect to show and for the hair thinning to stop. Rogaine (Minoxidil) is a topical application that can be more site specific. In both cases the pores of the scalp must be unclogged and remain clear for the hair to push out of the follicle, so sometimes a Retin-A product is used. This can be irritating to the scalp so that a topical gel may also be needed (and NO sun exposure). These products have become mainstream as a thinning hair treatment.
My latest bet is on the clearance for the drug Bimatoprost known as Latisse to be used on a bigger scale for conquering balding. Currently it is used to keep eyelashes in the growth phase so that they are longer and thicker. It is now being used “off-label” for eyebrows…
Trick is, that growth stops as soon as your use of the product does, and at the cost of $100+ per month just for eyelashes, what would it be for a large thinning area on our head?
Seems like the laser hair brush for hair loss is the most economic and least invasive manor of treatment on the market today. It uses natural light in a cool laser form to stimulate the hair follicles to grow thicker hair faster. It takes about 15-20 minutes every other day to run the laser hair brush over the thinning parts of your scalp.
This device is portable, light, and the smartest company out there offers you a hands-free stand so you can multi-task by doing your e-mails or reading at the same time. The Nutreve Personal Hair Therapy Laser also has pulsing lasers (not just LEDs like so many) for the perfect output of healing light at the correct intervals for optimum hair growth. At a one time cash outlay of around $600, this beats taking pills, having surgery or spending endless amounts of money for other treatments over time. It is also safe to use with Rogaine for a “one-two punch” to tackle those thinning and receding hairlines. LeBron, tell us the truth…you must be using the Nutreve Personal Hair Therapy Laser…..aren’t you???
