You want to stop going bald and regrow your hair? Stop masturbating. I'm living proof it works!

I'm the original poster. I must tell you that the hairloss problem is not necessarily to do with ejaculation, but rather to do with the hormone dihydrotestosterone being pumped in excess to the scalp and clogging the follicles.

Some men have very well developed follicles and thus capillaries, which therefore allows for better blood circulation and oxygen delivery to the scalp, and DHT is less likely to clog their follicles. However, men who have poorly developed follicles (as indicated by thin, brittle hair texture) will have problems metabolizing this hormone, and thus it will build up.

So when you masturbate in excess, and have been doing so for many years, then DHT will be pumped to the scalp and it will gradually clog up the follicles, thus preventing hair growth.

There are a number of factors involved which cause DHT to build up, such as a tight scalp, which is generally caused by a larger than average cranium. A larger than average cranium will cause the skin of the scalp to become naturally tighter, so blood circulation and oxygen delivery will be lower than normal, and as a result, hair follicles will be less developed and DHT more prone to building up.

I'm presently experiencing some regrowth -- I'm 33 now, and have been receding since I was 16, so my follicles have been clogged for around 17 - 18 years, therefore it is going to take a number of years for the DHT to clear away so that my hair can be restored to it's original state.

I am constantly devising new and natural methods to cause DHT to clear away faster, so hair can regrow quicker.

If you put this abstinence method into effect, then you will likely see some regrowth after 4 months (depending on your age of course), but remember that it will probably take around 3 to 4 years to see *significant* regrowth... perhaps 10 years to have all of your hair fully restored.

I am now at the 6 month mark (yes I did fall into the habit of masturbating again since I created this thread, but have not done so for the past 6 months), and more hair is growing.

The fact that some hair has been regrowing since I abstained (I also did this in 2004), proves that there has to be a link between masturbating / elevated DHT / and hairloss. But like I say, don't expect overnight results. It will likely take many years to grow all your hair back.

Thank you very much to the original poster of this thread for replying to my comment. I will continue to follow this thread for any new comments or developments, and I am going to try abstaining from masturbation on a long-term basis to see if I experience new hair growth over time. As much as I'd love immediate results, I realize that it took me years (decades) to run myself down this badly, so I will have to have patience with the process. I'm very optimistic about it though, because it explains a lot of occurances in my personal situation, and it makes sense.

I really appreciate your reply, and having some hope again feels great.

Mr 50%

I'm the OP. If I may just add something: since abstaining from masturbating, one of the side effects has been weight gain. This is because testosterone / DHT is formed from cholesterol, so if you cut down on masturbating, then not as much cholesterol is converted into DHT, and it will remain as fat in your body. So, what I suggest you do is, watch your calorie intake - especially fatty foods, and make sure you get exercise.

Exercise is very important because you will have lots of free testosterone circulating in your bloodstream if the body isn't active, and it will go to the scalp and clog up the follicles (just like DHT does when it is pumped to the scalp when you masturbate).

However, try not to over exercise at this point, the reason being, not only are your follicles clogged, but also the capillaries connecting to the small sweat glands directly next to the follicle. These sweat glands are called eccrine glands and are responsible for releasing body heat from the scalp in the form of sweat, but because they are partially clogged, this means that when we generate too much body heat, then not all of it can escape and it gets trapped in the follicle and inflames it.

You may have noticed that you have felt a prickly stinging feeling in your scalp as you have been losing your hair; this is inflammation caused by excess body heat trapped in the scalp. So until DHT levels drop and begin to clear from the scalp, then heavy exercise will only cause further hairloss.

You will know when DHT is clearing from the scalp because you will begin to see little patches of redness around your temples. if you look closely now, you will probably see that the skin (where you have lost your hair) is whiter than normal. This is caused by DHT clogging.

Why does DHT clog up this part of the scalp and not the lower back and sides where hair remains? It's because the lower back and sides contain muscles: the occiptalis muscles (at the lower back of the head) and the temporalis muscles (at the sides of the head). These muscles are oxygen rich due to the high number of cells they contain, so they can clear DHT efficiently. However, the upper scalp (the galea aponeurotica) contains no muscle groups, so the skin of this area is prone to the build up of DHT / free testosterone.

Look at this diagram of the galea and the scalp muscles: [link to images.corriere.it]

Another reason to cut out masturbating; the penis uses up massive amounts of nitric oxide. Nitric oxide dilates blood vessels to allow extra oxygenated blood to enter the penis so it can stay erect. Nitric oxide also relaxes and dilates the blood vessels of the scalp, and the more you have circulating in your blood stream, the better for your hair regrowth. So the less you masturbate, the more NO in your bloodstream.

Remember: it will take about 4 months to see any signs of regrowth, and possibly a good few years until you achieve significant regrowth.

I also came to another realization earlier, in regards to another contributory factor in pattern baldness, and that is the frontalis muscles.

Look at the two muscles above the eyebrows (the fronatalis muscles): [link to face-and-emotion.com]

When we pull an angry face, these muscles pull the skin of the hairline tight (try it now and pay attention to the skin of the hairline). If these muscles are constantly contracting, then the skin will remain permanently tight, blood circulation and oxygen delivery will be reduced and DHT will build up. I had a lifelong habit of pulling a mean face, and I realize that this has been a contributory factor in causing my hairline to recede. So try not to contract these muscles too much and the skin of the hairline will remain looser -- vital for blood circulation and oxygen delivery.

Hope this helps.

Mr 50% and anyone else. I actually created an updated thread on this subject some time after. It's there somewhere, but you will just have to scan for it.

Here's some additional information which i put into that updated thread...

When we sleep, we have our heads compressed against a pillow for around 8 hours per night, so think about how much blood circulation and oxygen delivery are cut to the temples / crown when we press them against a pillow.

Remember, these temporalis muscles don't extend to the temples, and this is why those areas are so prone to clogging. And the same is true for the crown -- the occipitalis muscles don't extend there, and this is why clogging occurs there.

When you sleep, try to let the temples hang over the pillow edge, and sleep only on the muscles of the lower scalp; this way the follicles of the temples will be able to breath all night.

Also, the problem is exacerbated when you masturbate when you're in bed because A) DHT is pumped to your temples B) When you turn over and press your temples against the pillow, DHT is squeezed into the cells of the temples even more so, and begins to build up faster.

So look at the occiptalis / temporalis muscles again and try to sleep on them and not the galea.

These mucles are tight in some people the reduction in blood flow allows DHT to do its dirty work thats why some people can ejaculate every day and not go bald [link to images.corriere.it]

DHT rises after just one extra ejaculation a week [link to www.bmj.com]

Blood flow is dramatically reduced in the balding areas of men balding and not in men with full hair and no signs of balding [link to www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Don't lie to your selves excess ejaculations will do more then ruin your hair, they make you go blind, and many other health related problems.

Just take propecia or finastercide which blocks DHT absorbtion into the scalp. I bang the wife once or twice a day and then do other things as well.

That's awesome its merely a choice. On one hand you can ejaculate every day and certainly go bald on the other hand you can not and lose no hair. There are trade offs on both sides. The facts prove this to be true and it makes sense considering the gestation period of a homosapien women is nine months. We pretty much measure excessive as something exceding biological limits when negative side effects occur. I say moderately in the spring is a but drastic allthough probably most ecfective. Year around would be best once a month, every two weeks, or once a week if you could give it up for a month or two out of the year.

Here’s is few explanations your all looking for.

The reason some men go bald and others don’t with the same ejaculation frequencies is due to genetic scalp conditions. Some men process a fatty cushion easier on there head or have better blood flow to the scalp. This also means that many causes are out there contributing to decreasing blood flow to the head. Things that can decrease blood flow to the scalp include Tension in the neck and face, hardening of arteries (due to bad diet), lack of exercise, sedentary lifestyles, hot showers, hair care products, any vasodilators (Motrin, nicotine etc...).The number one contributor to this tight scalp actually is not something you’re doing but rather not doing. People with loose scalps unintentionally lift their eyebrows and move the entire scalp while people with tight scalps do not. This means that some people are able to contract the head muscles move the scalp and send blood flowing across the networks of capillaries without even noticing it. If you begin watching the men who lift there eyebrows up balding men the lines stop way below the hair line and the top of their head is rather stationary. This is a big problem considering the top of your head is lacking muscles and muscle contraction moves blood through your capillaries. Not to mention your head is the most north of your heart so it is the last slowest point of pressure from each pulse of your heart.

Why do some women go bald but not nearly as many as men ? The prostate found only in male mammals is responsible like the OP has said for converting T to DHT whether this is done by secreting the 5-Alpha Reductase or just simply converting T it makes no difference. Women however do make DHT but they make it in their brain primarily. Secreted out and not distributed through the blood it explains why the women who do bald do not do so in the same pattern but start with a diffused typed thinning. Things that can cause this unbalance of hormones include birth control pills, menopause, and peculiar diet habits. The main time women will lose hair is when birthing males this is because if she has a tight scalp or bad blood flow during pregnancy of a male she experiences a time when DHT hits an all time high for her. DHT in highly elevated levels in the womb assists in the formation of male genitalia so many women experience hair loss during this time. Another reason men lose hair is because hair simply used proteins so if you do not get enough protein as many women in America and Europe don’t you can have thin brittle hair.

Hey op, What do you think about Saw Palmetto?

Hi Im 17 this year and Im having a bit of receding from the top of my hairline ...

I started masturbating at the age of 13 and about 2 to 3 times a day ..at the age of 15 i noticed that my hair follicles that had shed out from my scalp becoming thinner and thinner ...
my scalp also starts to sting and itch terribly at the age of 16...and now I could notice a small patch at the top of my scalp have only few thin hair follicles left...my friends noticed it and critics came flooding my ears...my confidence started fade away ...everytime I get a chance to hide it by sitting at the edge or corner of a restaurant,class and etc places i would take it for sure... and last month I saw this page and the OP really convinced me for masturbating being the cause of my receding hairline...I stopped masturbating and avoiding sex thoughts come to my mind ...now after one month my scalp is not as frequently stinging itchy as before but I could still feel a bit of itch but much better than before...

I have a few questions if you can spare some of your time sir to help me out,please :( ...Is this a good sign? What more can i do to help clearing dht away from my scalp? At the state where your hair regrows , could you still feel a bit of itch or you're totally free from it?

Massage your scalp
Look up Tom haggerty scalp exercises
Get sunlight followed by cold water
Don't where hats that are tight
Moderate exercise
Healthy diet, produce...peppers...berries....soy
Don't frown
Don't use shampoo or conditioner


I am not a medical doctor any and all health related questions should be directed to you primary care physician.

BS. I'm mid 40's, I whack it 4-6 times a day, have since I was 12 and I have a full head of hair.

To the poster before me in his 40's that "whacks" it 4-6 times per day: The original poster ALREADY STATED at least FIFTY TIMES why some men who masturbate do NOT lose their hair.

This goes for all the others that post in this thread saying they masturbate but haven't lost hair, and because of that, braggingly say this theory is nonsense, bs, etc. The OP covered this question several times and shouldn't have to repeat himself endlessly.

So please "Whacker", step away from the mirror, rest your right hand til tomorrow, and actually read the thread you're commenting on before, yes before, you comment.

To all these 40 year old guys who "claim" to ejaculate for years with no signs of baldness.

A: If your prostate genetically is smaller then you would put out much less DHT then other people per ejaculation

B: If your circulation is soo good DHT can not harm the follicles then you also could ejaculate every day and not go bald

C: You more then likely have lost hair just not in such a distinct pattern as those with high level pressure points in the front and crown of the head. My guess is some of you are bald but you are so caught up in your addiction you spread lies to make your point


****If you are balding then ejaculating often will speed the process I PROMISE YOU THIS!!!

For me, is exactly the opposite....if I stop with masturbation, I notice my hair fall increasing during the bath.

I'm taking Finasteride 5mg/day, for 2 years already, and it works pretty good. I'm also using Ketoconazole shampoo, 3-4x/week and a topical lotion with Flutamide over the affected areas. All of this is avoiding about 90% the baldness process.

First of all you have no way of measureing hair fall as a sign of baldness. The thickess hair people shed more often its the regrowth that matters. Cats have very thick coats and shed like crazy in the summer. Your taking a medication that shrinks your prostate numskull it shrinks the only organ in your body specifically designed to aid ejaculation. Its common sense bro. BTW it takes months for you to notice the effects of any treatment. I doubt you have ever went that long.

stop excessive masturbation and your hair problem will start to get better.

"Hey op, What do you think about Saw Palmetto?"

I've never tried SP, as my chief focus is on lowering my DHT levels only through abstinence. However, I've heard that SP really does assist in reducing DHT, so maybe it would be worth you trying it out and seeing if you get any positive results.

"I have a few questions if you can spare some of your time sir to help me out,please :( ...Is this a good sign? What more can i do to help clearing dht away from my scalp? At the state where your hair regrows , could you still feel a bit of itch or you're totally free from it?"

This is a very good sign because it means that your follicles are no longer inflaming. Inflammation within follicles is the killer, and this happens due to hypoxia within the cell. Basically, there is an area within the cell called the cytoplasm - where oxygen is produced by organelles called mitochondria. It is within the cytoplasm where the DHT molecule binds to receptors, yet when too much of the hormone enters the cytoplasm, it prevents oxygen reaching the mitochondria. As a result, the cell begins to produce vast amounts of respiratory acids, it then begins to asphyxiate and dies. When the follicle loses lots of these cells, it naturally begins to shrink.

Now, if you want your cells to clear DHT quicker (in addition to abstinence), make sure that you eat plenty of complex carbs / low fat protein (I really cannot stress the importance of this enough, and I wish I knew about this many years ago). Glycogen contains lots of oxygen, and complex carbs provide a steady release of energy throughout the day, meaning that your cells are constantly oxygenated and energized. Since increasing my complex carb intake, I suffer no inflammation throughout my scalp.

Also, when you sleep, try not to sleep on your hairline or crown. when you consider how many hours we sleep on average for (around 8 hours per night), think about how much your temples are pressed against a pillow for, and further consider how much oxygen will be reduced to these areas.

The reason why the lower back and sides of the scalp are not affected by hairloss, is because there are muscle groups in these areas and the skin is looser (possibly due to a thicker layer of adipose tissue), whereas the skin of the upper scalp (galea aponeurotica) is naturally tighter, which means that circulation and oxygen delivery is naturally lower (try pinching it, and compare how tense it is to other hair producing tissue on your body). So when you sleep, try to sleep with the hairline / crown hanging over the pillow.

You're only 17, so you really do have an excellent chance of restoring your hair to its original state.

Remember folks, air loss = hair loss.

I am 40 years old and a chronic masturbater since the age of 13, and my hair still grows like a weed.

My guess is your a liar or you have some degree of hair loss that you wont admit. Look at your pictures of when you were young I bet your hairline was different. Either way much like the 90 year old smoker who didn't get lung cancer it proves nothing that some may not bald from ejaculating while most or others will.

low testosterone levels.

You're joking, right? I masturbate all the time and my hair is so long I can sit on it. After giving up commercial shampoos and conditioners and using only apple cider vinegar and baking soda to wash it, it's now thicker and shinier too. Most hair loss is caused by wearing hats, using bad products on your hair, and in extreme cases stress. Masturbation has nothing to do with it.

Listen Dude.

Hair growth is affected by multiple factors much like the growth of a plant in your garden. You do not simply plant a seed in dry ground and expect the sun to do all the work. You also need water. Additionally this water needs certain nutrients to maintain the optimal level of plant health. Well much like a plant needing sun, water, and nutrients hair needs nutrient rich blood, sun and hormones. Well some hormones promote body and facial hair and some promote hair on the head. It just so happens that the hormone that promotes facial and body hair also damages hair on the head under the “wrong” condition. I will get to that wrong condition in a moment. First what is this hormone that promotes facial and body hair and is also the main cause for Male Pattern Baldness (MPB)? It’s called Dihydrotestosterone (DHT) and it’s a potent androgen that is converted from Testosterone (T) in many places but primarily in your Prostate. This is in no way my opinion it is common knowledge that DHT is the culprit behind MPB and all medications on the market aim at stopping this conversion of T-DHT. The only medication that has had any real success with this was first introduced to the public under the brand name Propecia. Propecia claims to block the enzyme responsible for making this conversion of T-DHT and that enzyme is called the 5-Alpha Reductase. If you don’t already know, an enzyme is a catalyst that speeds up or in some cases makes a chemical reaction happen that other wise would not have been possible. Propecia makers originally prescribed the medication for people experiencing Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH). In other words BPH is simply an enlarged prostate usually noticed by an increased in urine frequency and in most cases difficulty urinating. Propecia works by reducing the size of the prostate and it was later that it was discovered to grow hair on balding crowns of men. Sense then they have hypothesized that Propecia blocks T-DHT conversion via the inhibiting of the 5-Alpha Reductase. Its mechanism for doing this or to what degree it does is irrelevant because the reducing of the prostate is the key to re-growing hair. As Testosterone leaves the testicle(s) along with Sperm it travels to the Prostate where the semen is excreted through Dermal Cells to join the sperm to make the total ejaculate. Semen from the prostate keeps the sperm alive in the highly acidic Vagina. 95% of the Testosterone that gets to the prostate is converted into Dihydrotestosterone. These hormones are very much essential for reproductions and go on to be key in mammalian hair growth. At age 12 your prostate is only the size of pea where it begins a rapid growth phase that will slow down in your early 20’s. After you have reached this age and subsequently this size prostate you now are able per ejaculation to put out more DHT then ever before. So then DHT will promote hair growth in many places in your body before it affects hair however at high enough levels you begin to experience free DHT that simply has nowhere to go. A hair has growth phase of 6 years so if you have all the hair you need growing and you continue to have high DHT it’s going to be expelled out of your body VIA acne. Now this would be fine if it were not for that “condition” that I mentioned in the beginning. Because of various factors that are being discovered as you read this the scalp of males and females can become vary tight. It is in this tight scalp that DHT can not make it across the tiny capillaries running across the top of your head. The DHT literally gets clogged in the “run off” to the hair follicle and the hair starves to death. The tightness of the scalp comes in many forms and where that pressure is applied is what will begin this balding process and also how fast the pressure is applied will determine how quickly you lose your hair in those areas. Some people the pressure gives at certain areas so they don’t lose as much hair other its all over and for some……like you…….there is no pressure at all and you experience heavy body hair, acne, or sweat profusely and DHT exits without causing any hair loss at all. So while you may whack it every day and experience no hair loss much like the guy who smokes and doesn’t get lung cancer...You lucked out…congratulations. Either way your lack of knowledge on the subjects makes you a deceiver for trying to speak as if your one example changes anything and anybody experiencing hair loss should know that ejaculating often will accelerate this process. Sorry for any typos or misspelled words I typed this very quickly. If I feel like it later I will tell you more about how to alleviate a tight scalp and get over ejaculation addiction.

Hello,
what if you practice something like this?
[link to www.amazon.com]

You masturbate, but you avoid/block ejaculation.
This should block the Testosterone-DHT conversion right?

I'm asking because of this...
[link to archive.mensjournal.com]

"The typical man who has 350 orgasms a year, versus the national average of around a quarter of that, lives about four years longer."
"Roizen suggests, with a straight face, that 700 a year could add up to eight years to your life."
"But the big kahuna of longevity studies was completed just 10 years ago in Wales. British scientists interviewed nearly 1,000 men in six small villages about their sexual frequency, then arranged for all death records to be forwarded so the scientists could record their life spans. Ten years later they determined that men who had two or more orgasms a week had died at a rate half that of the men who had orgasms less than once a month."

(They speak about orgasm, not ejaculation)

Actually it's said that I look younger (maybe about 10 years younger, at 27 they give me 17... now at 29, I don't know) and, well, before stopping the masturbation practice for the hairs (now they are long and they fall a lot, but without masturbation I noticed they are now thicker), I used to masturbate a lot (maybe the same frequency as in the article).

Another small evidence...
[link to voices.yahoo.com]

So... If I masturbate and block the ejaculation, and maybe I masturbate very quickly to limit the rise in temperature, do you think I'll have the same benefits as not masturbating for the hairs AND the benefits of multi orgasm for lifespan?

Here some other evidence about lifespan extension, as written also in the multi orgasmic man book.
[link to www.articlesbase.com]

Think about recording ejaculations over the last month......can you remember how many? these studies are bogus nobody could remember or record back ten years. Don't listen to studies that suggest life span changes measured by spoken guess. If you ejaculate too ofte you will lose your hair. Period. Reduce as much as you can and it will become easier day by day. Don't watch porn, sex movies, read lady magazines or stare too long at attractive women. Your eyes are the gateway to your sexual drive keep the covered from the excessive amount of stimulation in modern culture.

But the study about the worms seems reliable.
I'm about one year into "controlled masturbation", I mean now I don't have any problem stop masturbating for a long period, I'm just asking myself if I'm losing something, cause the studies and the alleged effects of over masturbation in my last 10 years. I'm thinking to go for a month with the practice of fast masturbation & stopped ejaculation, two times a day, and I want to see if I'll see the same good effect on my hairs as in complete abstinence. I think I'll see even after just 10 days. If there will be no good effects I'll come back to complete abstinence.

How do you explain all those monks then?

Hahahah monks are not all bald they shave their head nut case. Besides im pretty sure monks practice masturbation.

Helew ppl =D i find this thread intrstng n its related to the situatn im havng currntly..
One questn tho,,does dht produce during premature ejaculatn/wet dreams?? Cos been havng them aftr i startd to stop masturbatng..xs