It does not pull the hair out.
It shrinks the follicle that makes it.
Each growth cycle, the follicle comes back a little smaller.
So the hair it makes comes back thinner and shorter.
Day to day, nothing changes. Over three years, everything does.
Eventually it stops making hair at all.
Male pattern baldness is your follicles reacting to DHT.That is why it runs in families, on either side.And why it is treated with medication instead of shampoo.
The same follicle, three cycles apart.
Every hair up there is on its own clock. Some of yours are still at the first stage. Some are further along.
Treatment works on the follicles that are still working.
By now you have your own tells. The barber angle you avoid. The photo you delete instead of posting. The hat that stopped being a choice.
It starts with noticing.
Then doing something about it.
“It was after my last haircut that I really realized I was starting to lose my hair. It kind of freaked me out at first, but then I found Keeps.”
“I knew hair loss would start at some point as I approached 30. It was great that Keeps made it easy to start early. Happy with the results so far!”
One enzyme makes your DHT.
That enzyme comes in two forms.
Two doors in.
Finasteride is the standard prescription. It is the one most men are put on, and it shuts one door.
Dutasteride shuts both. That makes it the stronger option.
One trial put the two head to head.
Same trial, same men, both drugs.
It measured DHT in blood, in men being treated for an enlarged prostate, at 5 mg. For hair, it is prescribed at 1 mg.
So read it as blocking power, not a promise about your hair.
Whether one shut door is enough for you, or you need both, is what the assessment works out.
Blocking holds the line.
Minoxidil does the other half.
A blocker protects the follicles you still have.
Minoxidil improves blood flow to the follicle. That is what supports regrowth.
What it actually does.
And what it does not.
Finasteride and minoxidil together are above 90% effective at slowing or stopping further loss.
On finasteride and minoxidil, 66 in 100 men see some regrowth.
A third don’t.
2 in 3 men have some male pattern baldness by 35. It does not wait for you to decide.
Every month you wait, the follicles that still work get no help.
There’s no magic cure for baldness.The earlier you take action, the more hair you’ll keep.
You have probably heard the finasteride stories.
In clinical studies, 3.8% of men noticed sexual side effects.
Among the men taking a placebo, a pill with no medicine in it, 2.1% reported the same.
The gap between those two numbers is the part the drug is responsible for. It is a real risk, and the clinician you speak to after the assessment is the person to raise it with.
Roughly half what the pharmacy charges.
The first consultation is free, and it happens after the assessment.
Nothing is charged for finding out where you stand.
Which door, which half.
That is what the assessment is for.
The first question is what you want: keep what you have, grow some back, or both. You already know your answer to that one.
The only hair any of this can protect is the hair you still have today.
Keep what’s leftThey should seek out help with a physician who can help them make a diagnosis and come up with the appropriate treatment plan.
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