Shaving your head: a practical guide to doing it well
Not a white flag. For a lot of men it is the point at which they stop thinking about their hair several times a day, which is worth something on its own.
Hair
Hair care and styling damage: telling breakage apart from hair loss
Hair found on the floor with a small white bulb on the end came out of the follicle. Hair without one snapped. Almost everything useful follows from that distinction.
Hair loss and anabolic steroids: what they accelerate and what may not come back
Steroids do not give you a hair loss gene you did not have. They compress a process that might have taken fifteen years into two or three.
The first year of hair loss treatment: what the product information actually says
Twelve months of treatment produces a change smaller than the difference between two bathroom mirror photos. That is the whole problem with judging it by eye.
Combining hair loss treatments: what the licensed evidence actually covers
The pairing marketed everywhere as the gold standard is described by the UK product information in four words: no data are available.
PRP for hair loss: promising, unstandardised, and not a replacement for anything
The evidence is more positive than sceptics allow and much less useful than clinics imply, for one reason: no two clinics are doing the same thing.
Beard and eyebrow hair loss: the red flags that matter most
Scalp hair loss gets all the attention. Eyebrow loss is the one that more often means something, and occasionally means something urgent.
Hair loss and PCOS: what the pattern tells you, and what it doesn’t
Hair thinning gets people sent for PCOS testing constantly. The guideline is surprisingly clear that on its own, it is one of the weaker reasons to look.
Hair loss and thyroid disease: why the shedding often starts after treatment does
The most common thyroid hair question is why the shedding got worse once treatment started. The answer is a lag, not a failure, and it is not a reason to stop.
Dandruff and seborrhoeic dermatitis: what it is, what it isn’t, and whether it causes hair loss
A flaky scalp is not an infection, not a hygiene failure, and not a cause of pattern baldness. It can still make your hair shed, and it is worth treating properly.