Chrome-domes! Stop wasting money on Rogain & other expensive hair-loss cures! Now there's something better, and it really works!
Posted on 12/24/2004 7:33:15 PM PST by Red Badger
German medics arrived at the conclusion that consumption of large caffeine doses prevents baldness.
Male's hormone testosterone is responsible for baldness in men, meaning that the more testosterone a man as, the more prone he is to losing his hair. Head of the research team Professor Peter Elsner states that hormonal boldness could in fact be prevented by means of caffeine.
As a result of their extensive research studies, German scientists arrived at a fascinating conclusion! Apparently, claim the scientists, it is possible to prevent baldness at an early age by means of treating hair with products containing caffeine (for instance by rubbing a special solution into the scalp).
However, the scientific team advises coffee lovers against consuming their favorite beverage in excess to fight baldness. According to an expert-cosmetologist Adolf Klenka, "one would need to consume 60-80 cups of coffee per day for the caffeine to reach hair follicles." Professor Elsner in turn notes that "even though a person would be willing to do just that for beauty"s sake, our research did not cover the way caffeine intake influences one"s scalp. We did prove however that caffeine should be used as an external substance that should be applied directly onto the scalp."
According to him, those men who are genetically predisposed to baldness, should consider such "caffeine therapy" while they are still relatively young. German medics consider that rubbing coffee ground into the scalp is the most effective way to prevent baldness.
Let me guess coffee ground therapy available at your nearest Starbucks. Price: $225 for a 5 minute follicle stimulating session.
Maybe so, but do you really drink the required 60-80 cups per day?
Okay, I'm covered.
No it doesn't. Been there. Done that. Bald.
Chrome-domes! Stop wasting money on Rogain & other expensive hair-loss cures! Now there's something better, and it really works!
lol....I was just about to make the exact same statement.
I must be close, The inside of my toilet is brown......
FReeper gitmo feeling better after his third cup of java.
The OldEagle is pretty much a bald eagle and I have been drinking way too much coffee for the last fifty years.
Maybe it didn't work back then?
actually I believe it is dihydrous-testosterone... which is not the same thing. A specific form of zinc is required to convert it to a useful form of testosterone... which ENHANCES hair growth and sex drive, the competitive edge and so on.
Testosterone does NOT cause baldness, or the massive levels of it in young males would have all males bald at 13-16 years of age. Testosterone DECREASES as men age, and grow bald... it doesn't increase.
baldness is known to be largely genetically driven... and there are treatments for it that are effective. I have had several friends that use something called kevis or tevis(???), and it has helped them considerably.
baldness does not run in men in my family, even at 75 years of age... but the idea the coffee could cure baldness...
ridiculous.
EVERY bald man I have ever known, has been an addict level java junkie.
I probably averaged 30 cups a day for last 50 + years with no help. Maybe the 2 pack a day of Camels counter-acted the caffeine....
And here I have been drinking it instead of putting it on my head
Looks like my boss just prior to my meeting with her for my monthly performance review.
Mmmmm! Coffee!!
Well... there might be something. I drink coffee on a daily basis and unlike my father and uncles from both sides I am NOT balding. Of course, I could have always picked the genes of my maternal grandfather who wasn't bald at all.
The gene for baldness comes from the maternal side...so it indeed comes from your maternal grandfather...lucky you!
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