In the episode Homer users ‘Dimoxinil’ (a play on words on ‘Minoxidil’), gravity boots and a scalp massager. But is there actually some truth in these crazy hair loss treatments?

Hair… …just like everybody else

What Homer Did to Cure his Hair Loss

Step 1: Dimoxinil Application

Homer applying the fictional ‘Dimoxinil’

Dimoxinil is a play on words on ‘Minoxidil’, which is the active ingredient in Rogaine and similar topical hair loss treatments. It works by increasing blood circulation in the scalp, which helps carry nutrients to the hair via the bloodstream.

Does it work in real life?

Results from even high strength Minoxidil products are mediocre at best. In fact I’ve never heard of anyone experiencing noticeable hair regrowth from Minoxidil use. It may help slow down hair loss, but that’s about the most you can expect.

Step 2: Gravity boots and scalp massager

Homer massages his scalp while hanging upside down

Scalp massagers are occasionally seen in the world of hair growth products. Again these work by increasing blood circulation in the scalp, which helps feed the hair and stimulate hair growth.

Does it work in real life?

Whilst some hair loss experts advise scalp massages to help stimulate hair growth, you’d have to spend a fair bit of time everyday to get any results from this. Hanging upside down does achieve one thing though: it forces blood into the capillaries right at the surface of the scalp skin. These capillaries usually have extremely weak blood circulation in hair loss sufferers, so forcing blood into them using gravity will help open them up, making unused capillaries (that are supposed to feed the hair) start working properly again.

The results

I have hair, I have hair. Look, look…

Homer is pretty happy when he wakes up with a full, thick head of hair. He gets a promotion and even an unusual new personal assistant.

Is it possible to do any of this in reality?

No. There’s no hair loss treatment that will regrow your hair overnight. But you can use these principles to great effect.

It’s interesting that the Simpsons’ writers went into so much detail on increasing blood circulation in the scalp. This tells me that the main writer of this episode has some experience of hair loss treatments.

One of the keys to regrowing hair is feeding it. In order to feed it you need to increase blood flow to the follicles. I mentioned earlier that the capillaries nearest the scalp surface in hair loss sufferers tend to be almost completely redundant, meaning the hair is literally starving to death. By forcing blood into these dying capillaries you can intensely feed your hair and regrow it.

To learn how to do this in reality, take a look at my 2 minute a day hair regrowth technique.

Image source: Channel 4

I’ve been watching the UK television programme, 10 Years Younger, with Nicky Hambleton-Jones. It’s interesting seeing the different women; how they look before they go through the anti-ageing treatments and how they look afterwards.

There’s one big thing I’ve noticed from watching these different women go through the transformation process:

Short hair really makes you look a lot older, while long hair really helps make you look a lot younger.

Some of the women are lucky enough to have long, thick hair. The ones with the longer hair consistently receive lower age votes in the public surveys, while the women with shorter hair tend to receive older age votes.

Take Tens Years off your Age by Intensely Feeding your Hair

There’s really one thing they miss in this TV programme. They fix the teeth, they fix the skin and they style the hair. But what they really need to do is feed their hair, to make it fuller, thicker and longer.

Using my 2 minute a day hair growth technique, they could make their hair shinier, thicker and longer by the time Nicky goes back to see them again.

Longer, thicker hair would really help a lot of the women on this show appear younger.

Learn how to Feed and Rapidly Grow your Hair with just 2 Minutes a Day

To learn how to trigger your body to send nutrients up to your scalp and feed your hair for 24 hours after you complete a quick 2 minute technique every night before bed, check out this page:

The 2 minute a day hair regrowth trick

Hi..

Am from India. Just went through your website and decided to buy the book. I want my doubt to be cleared before I buy the complete book.

My query is, will the food items that you have mentioned in the original book will be available everywhere. The food items you have mentioned will be easily available in your home country, but it may not be in some other country.

Pl clarify on this

Thanks for your question. The foods used to feed the hair described in the eBook are general food types as well as specifics. Some specific foods are cited but there are always general food types that they belong to. For example spinach is a good source of iron. Spinach is a dark green leafy vegetable. If spinach is not available to you, you could use an alternative dark green leafy vegetable, such as kale.

There are also some specialist ‘superfoods’ described in the nutrition section that contain concentrated amounts of specific nutrients, that we use to achieve specific goals. These are available in supermarkets in the UK, US and Australia. Where they’re not available you could purchase online or ask me and I’ll try to find an alternative for you.

Feedback like this is great because it helps others so is useful for building the members forum content, which helps everyone progress more easily.

If you’re ever in doubt I’m always available to answer any of your questions about specifics.

Hi I want to give wet look to my hair without using gel because I have noticed that whenever I use gel my hair falls out. Please tell me the alternative way to give wet look to my hair

If you are experiencing hair loss it is more likely to be due to DHT, stress, diet or hormonal imbalance than due to hair gel use — and you’re actually just noticing the hair loss more when you use gel. I recommend reading more about how to stop hair loss by reading these articles:

• How to remove DHT from the scalp and block DHT production
• How to train the mind to end stress related hair loss
• How to clear the pores in the scalp
• How to naturally balance hormones

If you’re worried about the hair gel use, you could switch to a better quality hair gel. These organic hair gels and waxes are all good ones to try. The Green People gels, the Dr Bonners conditioning styling cream, the Intelligent Nutrients styling gel, the John Masters styling gel and the Jason Salon styling gel are the ones you can use for a wet look.

Make your own Natural Hair Styling Serum

The only alternatives to gel for achieving a wet look would be using a mixture of natural oils, such as almond, coconut and lavender. If you go down this root, pick some pure organic oils and create your own wet look styling serum. Coconut oil is the best for the hair but it doesn’t smell great (it smells quite fatty, rather than subtly coconutty).

If you want to create your own natural hair styling serum I would suggest using the following oils:

• Around 60% castor oil (this is your bulk and is almost scentless)
• Around 10% borage oil (this is really good for the hair)
• Around 20% lavender oil or almond oil (nice scent and good for the hair)
• Around 10% jojoba oil (great for the hair)

Coconut oil would be a good oil to use but it goes hard in colder temperatures so you might find it difficult to mix with the other oils.

You could also try using (instead of the lavender):

• Burdock oil
• Rosemary oil
• Camomile oil
• Peppermint oil

The above are also good for the hair — you could choose whichever you prefer the smell of.

If I use a just for men hair color every 6 to 8 weeks, will this damage my hair? A hair doctor has advised me it will not. Thank you.

Thanks for your question. Hair dye can damage your hair, but it will not cause hair loss. Dying your hair causes protein loss from the hair in tiny amounts, which can make the hair appear thinner, especially if you lighten your hair colour.

Hair dyes use chemicals to bond the colourants to the hair (both internally and externally) and this means the hair must be penetrated by the chemicals. Dying your hair darker is far less damaging than dying it lighter, but will most likely cause some very mild damage, unless you go to a really good hairdresser.

If you are dying your hair darker to cover grey you really don’t need to worry about this. The damage will not be noticeable. In fact the only damage that you would notice would be as a result of combing your hair while it has the dye in, as this might increase protein loss.

As far as hair loss is concerned, colouring your hair does not cause hair loss because the visible hair is already dead. Any hair that you can see (above the skins surface) is dead and is not growing. The only part of the hair that is alive and growing is beneath the skins surface. This is the most important part with regard to hair loss and hair growth.

If the hair bulb is affected by some chemical or hormone in the blood, hair loss can result. And if the hair bulb is not being adequately fed via the bloodstream, hair growth will stop. However dying your hair only affects the hair above the surface of the skin. If you want to increase your hair growth you need to influence the part of the hair that is beneath the skin — and that is how we stop hair loss and promote hair growth.

I am a 21 year old female and for the last 2 years my hair has been falling out. I feel so foolish for leaving it this long, just thought it would correct itself, but the last couple of months it has just got so bad. My hair is now really thin and is so unhealthy. Also, my scalp is very dry and itchy. Always has been but I’ve never thought to link the two together. My hair is dull and lifeless and every time i touch it, I am guaranteed to have hair fall. I dread having to wash my hair because of the amount of hair loss. I did have a baby 5 years ago, so dunno if that’s part of the problem. Hormones? Do you think my problem if DHT related? Looking forward to hearing back.

The fact that your hair is very dull and unhealthy looking tells me that you need to feed it. Providing your body with a massive abundance of the exact nutrients needed for hair growth would be a good start for you.

The best advice I can give you is to intensely feed your hair using the instructions in the nutrition chapter of my eBook. In that chapter you also learn how to improve your hormonal balance by feeding your ‘prostaglandins’, which regulate hormones.

Reducing your DHT levels might also be a good idea. I would recommend having your DHT levels checked by a doctor first though. At your age DHT is less likely to be a problem.

In the eBook I explain how to remove DHT from the scalp and block DHT production in the body. It is a difficult regime to follow though, so you might want to wait until edition 2 of the eBook is released this spring, which is easier to follow and even more effective. Alternatively download edition 1 (current edition) and sign-up in the members area for a free copy of edition 2 (all my edition 1 buyers get a free copy of edition 2) — that way you get both.

In edition 2 I also explain how to clear up problems that cause an itchy scalp — this is touched on in edition 1 but is covered in more detail in edition 2.

The eBook is available to download here.

You also get a free 8 part audio program that helps train your mind to reduce your stress levels. This is useful in stopping stress related hair loss.

I came across your website when searching for connection between acne and hair loss. I found your article on that very interesting. I suffer from acne since over 10 years. Last year I also started having problems with hair loss. Currently I am taking Procerin to fight with it but after almost 3 months I see no improvement in hair loss (acne is well improved though). Previously I also tried programs that involved healthy diet and taking nutrition but even when following very strict programs (non-gluten, no diary), exercises, enough hours of sleep, liver cleansing and so on…I saw some improvement but certainly never got rid off the problem completely. Now here is what I found out…When doing blood tests my bilirubin levels in liver were extremely high and so I was diagnosed with Gilbert Syndrome which doctors say is harmful and requires no treatment. The point is I think since it is a liver problem it could be the root cause of my acne and hair loss. I was thinking it would be interesting to share that experience with you and perhaps ask what do you think about that. Is there any chance in that situation to follow your program and will I learn anything new apart from diet, taking supplements and topical treatments? I would appreciate your answer very much.

There does seem top be a connection between acne and hair loss. The liver is an important piece of both puzzles but what most acne programs and hair loss programs seem to ignore is stress. Stress has a greater impact on liver health, sebum levels, hormonal balance and hair loss than diet or hygiene. What types of people tend to suffer from acne? It tends to be more intelligent people who have good skin hygiene and above average diets but also have minds that think about stresses more, or they have more pressure to succeed in work life.

The more intelligent you are the more able your mind is to postulate on a greater number of possible outcomes to any given scenario in life — whether it be something you did at work today or something you do everyday in life.

The people who were stressing out about work or their social life at school, college or university tend to also be the people who are stressing out at work later in life. But it’s not the stress that causes the acne or hair loss, it’s the way those types of people deal with the stress badly.

Take for example now homeless people. Homeless people have terrible diets and very poor hygiene compared to the average person. Yet they tend to have thick hair. It’s not because they don’t have what we would consider stress in their lives, it’s that they do now react to stressful situations in the same way as more intelligent people do.

Stress is what makes us get up in the morning and go to work. It’s what motivates us to work harder to improve our lives. We worry that we could or should be achieving more. Homeless people however don’t tend to worry like this. Those of them who do are likely not to be homeless for very long.

Less intelligent people worry less about things and as a result tend not to to be effected by the stress and so have better balanced hormones, their livers have fewer inputs to process and their body has a greater supply of nutrients for the hair and skin because stress is not using up the supply.

Stress and worry have an impact on hormonal balance and sebum production. If you react badly to stressors (such as work deadlines, pressure to succeed in life, or even simply jealousy), it has an impact on your hormonal balance and liver. The result is often an increase in sebum on the skin and a decrease in nutrient supply in the body (especially B vitamins and other key nutrients required for the hair and skin).

These problems are easy to deal with temporarily — by massively increasing consumption of the key nutrients, such as essential fatty acids, B vitamins, magnesium, etc and by cleansing the liver. However if you want to solve these problems in the long term you have to treat the root cause — which in some cases is problems in the mind.

How greater intelligence can take you down the wrong road

Because more intelligent people are more able to consider a greater array of outcomes to any given scenario, some people tend to focus more on the potentially negative outcomes than the potentially positive outcomes. The result is that some peoples’ minds get geared towards thinking about possible negative outcomes — in other words they train their minds over many years to worry about things more so than others.

For example: some guy has a presentation at school and he doesn’t like the idea of people analyzing his every move (which is what he does when watching other peoples’ presentations). So he sows the seed of fear into presenting in front of people. Now he might avoid presentations at school. As a result he could develop a fear of talking in front of people. He will have thought about it greatly and formed hypotheses and (perhaps unfounded) conclusions on what people think of him and how he deals with this form of stress.

These hypotheses and conclusions train his mind over many years and in a myriad if interconnected scenarios to worry and react badly to stressors.

The key is to re-train the mind to stay relaxed and focused in stressful situations

We can use the process of developing conclusions about things we experience in life to ‘reprogram’ the mind, so that it reacts positively to stressors instead of negatively. This really is the major missing ingredient in all the hair loss programs and acne programs I’ve researched. It’s extremely important and sad that not enough attention is paid to it.

The truth is that if you are very relaxed yet focused, your muscles are loose and relaxed and your breathing is relaxed and calm you are likely to be very healthy both internally and in appearance.

This is why I’ve dedicated a chapter in my eBook to stress. I’ve included detailed instructions on how to train your mind to stay relaxed and focused and not over worry.

With the eBook you receive a free 8 part subliminal mind training audio program, that can be listened to while you sleep, exercise or relax. The program works by removing negative habits from the mind and gradually replacing them with positive ones. In the same way as we train our minds over many years to form negative conclusions about experiences, my mind training program reprograms the brain to eventually draw positive conclusions about experiences.

There are also instructions on how to cleanse the liver and replenish the body of nutrients required for hair growth and how to normalise sebum levels, increase circulation in the scalp and reduce DHT levels. These are all crucial to stopping hair loss and regrowing hair.

I’m 14 years old and I’m losing my hair. What should I do?

At your age the hair loss might be due to stress, or some other underlying condition. I highly recommend visiting your doctor to have your scalp and overall health examined. Don’t be embarrassed to talk to your parents or guardians about your hair loss. It is very important that you address this problem now. It could be something simple, such as a small dietary change that is required that may not only improve your hair but also your overall health.

Hair loss in young teenagers (often referred to as alopecia) is often thought to be caused by stress. You doctor might decide that this is the cause of your hair loss. If so you should work on reducing your stress levels. The best way to start is to talk to a parent or guardian about how you feel and whether anything is troubling you. Then you can work on resolving problems together. If you don’t feel you can talk to a parent or guardian, perhaps there is a teacher at school you could talk to?

If your doctor cannot give you a reason for your hair loss I recommend trying another doctor or a specialist dermatologist. Don’t stop until you have found the root of the problem and a suitable treatment.

I’m a an African American female in my late 50′s. I wear a lock hairstyle, having started to grow locks in 2002. While I’ve always had fine hair, I noticed that my hair did change when I was pregnant in my 30′s. I’ve lost quite a bit of hair at the top center of my head and consequently wear my hair up daily – to cover the thin bald areas in my scalp. The information on your site is truly encouraging. At one point I thought I’d have to cut and shave my hair down but was afraid to because I felt it would not grow back. I will purchase your ebook when its affordable. I want to ask if your research 100% extends to women as much as it does men. I would imagine so as hair loss is hair loss. I do not want to cut my hair and look forward to seeing results after about 6 months of following the routines suggested in your ebook. However, I am unable to wash my hair daily. Would you suggest a weekly shampoo? I’m excited, thanks.

Following up to my previous message, I failed to mention that I experience quite a bit of itching at the top of my scalp where I have suffered a lot of hair loss. What could possibly be the cause of the itching? The itching is only in the areas of the extreme hair loss. Please advise. Thanks.

Thanks for your emails.

The instructions in my eBook work for both women and men, although some of the instructions are particularly tailored toward men because of hormonal differences between men and women. The eBook explains how to firstly get your scalp and body back into the condition they were in before the hair loss began — by eliminating all the causes of hair loss. Then we use some powerful techniques to intensely feed the hair and reactivate dormant hair follicles.

However you will find some of the advice in my eBook difficult and perhaps even impossible to follow if you are unable to wash your scalp. In the eBook I recommend applying a special custom made formula to the scalp, which feeds the hair. This will not be practical if you cannot wash your scalp in the morning.

The itching you describe could be due to a skin condition such as eczema, which is a very common skin condition, or it could be due to something such as demodex mites, which is less common. It’s difficult to treat these conditions without being able to apply topical treatments to the effected areas and washing the scalp daily. For example shampoo containing zinc can be used to treat dandruff and itchy scalps. And other treatments can be used to remove demodex mites, but they rely on you being able to properly wash your scalp thoroughly after each treatment.

My best advice would be for you to visit a local dermatologist and have your scalp examined under a microscope. However any dermatologist is likely to advise you to wash and treat your scalp. If you’re not happy to do this you’re only other options are to use diet to help feed your hair by increasing your consumption of food for hair growth. You could also try using some of the methods I use to increase blood circulation in the scalp, which help increase the supply of nutrients to the hair, via the bloodstream.

Your priority should be to eliminate the cause of the itching. Once you have achieved this you can start applying techniques to reactivate dormant hair follicles.

I am living in Pune for 9 months. My hair is falling badly. I am suffering from dandruff. Can you suggest any remedy and suggestion in diet or anything?

I would suggest massaging organic cold-pressed extra virgin coconut oil into your scalp every night to help clear up the dandruff. Wash the coconut oil out each morning with a good shampoo such as one of these organic shampoos, one of these ant-DHT shampoos or one of these specialist hair loss shampoos. Ideally choose a shampoo that contains zinc — this will also help further clear up the dandruff.

I would also increase your consumption of oily fish such as salmon and mackerel for increased omega 3. Also increase your consumption of green leafy vegetables such as baby leaf spinach to increase your iron intake.

Stress is a possible cause of your hair loss. Do you exercise regularly? You should aim to get quality strenuous exercise (that makes you sweat and get out of breath) three times a week if possible. Take some time to relax every day without any distractions and try to get a good nights sleep every night.

If you feel stress is a big problem for you, try downloading my eBook, which has a chapter dedicated to training your mind to relax in stressful situations — it also comes with a free 8 part audio subliminal mind training programme, which trains your mind to stay calm and focused.