• We should now be fully online following an overnight outage. Apologies for any inconvenience, we do not expect there to be any further issues.

How to beat back baldness

Page 2 - Seeking answers? Join the AnandTech community: where nearly half-a-million members share solutions and discuss the latest tech.

Flyback

Golden Member
Sep 20, 2006
1,303
0
0
Another vote for "big 3" : propecia (pill), nizoral 2% (shampoo) and rogaine foam (topical)

Some people switch out the propecia with avodart as they don't respond well to propecia.

Oh and get in shape if you aren't already. Lift weights, put on muscle. That way if you can't stop the loss (go with big 3), then you at least aren't bald and fat ;)

Don't try any of the herbal remedies or crap they sell on television. The "big 3" are the only really accepted methods of at least slowing it down (some experience regrowth). Anything else is snake oil.

Don't wait too long, either. I waited a year between noticing and getting on the big 3. I still have lots of hair and a hairline (diffuse as opposed to MPB) but my hair is much thinner.