I decided that with finasteride (aka propecia) causing sex destroying side effects, and being in a marriage, I'd rather keep sex working and lose my hair(which seemed way off in the distance). It happens so slowly you get accustomed to it, and even if it catches your attention "I'll deal with it later" is an always temptation to succumb to. Even when it's clear it's going to eventually get bald you tell yourself "I'll just get a transplant when it gets too bad.".
Those delays all make the situation much worse than putting the brakes on asap. Transplants look just ok at best, only from certain angles, usually they look like crap or worse. And are way more complex than you imagine, with a yearlong recovery.
"Fuck it" is easy to say when it's not too bad.
It's 200% crystal clear in hindsight, with all this knowledge acquired in the last decade, that nothing is as good or easy as just protecting the hair you've got for your future self.
Looking younger as you age is a huge advantage in business and relationships. That's why people spend a fortune trying to turn the clock back. It's not just shallow vanity.
For men, fitness, hair, and money means age and the experience that comes with it make you more valuable to the opposite sex, more charismatic to the other men you do business with, not less, than when you were younger.
Destroyed hair makes you look older, period. Old and tired. People will draw conclusions from you about that, fair or not. Bald is ok if you look good bald, but not as good as a healthy head of hair.
You can control fitness and success through your efforts. Hair, once it's too far gone, is out of your control no matter how much money you throw at it.
If I told you spending the equivalent of a few cents a day in effort now will give you an asset men would spend a million on at some point in the future you'd consider that a smart investment.
You see what you're losing, but that thinning crown isn't in your face every day. Other people see it. Do you think that's attractive? Guys who focus more than most on building a good looking physique want to pretend hair does't matter, when that's pure cope because they feel like they have no control over it so go into acceptance mode.
It's like saying "as long as you're healthy a below average physique with a flabby belly is fine, it'll have no impact on your life and how others perceive you".. Few here would buy that crap.
When your slowly retreating temporal frontal indentations meet the ever enlarging thinning crown and you're starting to see yourself turning into an old monk it's going to suck worse than you can imagine now.
Androgenetic alopecia is the most common cause of hair loss in both males and females. In a society that places significant value on hair and associates it with attractiveness, a lack there of can have damaging psychological consequences. The ...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
