I've been doing the scalp exercises for a week and small hair have started to grow. I'm a norwood 2 btw.
>Step number one in the learning process: Stand in front of the mirror and raise your eyebrows (contract the frontalis muscles). Next, try to pull back your ears (contract the occipitalis muscles) as you relax your forehead. There will be only a small, almost imperceptible, movement at first when you are trying to pull back your ears. The contraction of the muscles at the front of the head will be easy. These muscles are fully voluntary. The muscles at the back of the head will require a lot of work. You do not have to consciously relax these two muscle groups as you are alternately contracting them. The frontalis and occipitalis muscles are antagonistic muscles: when one contracts, the other relaxes automatically. I suggest doing the contractions with a fluid movement concentrating on good form.
>Step number two: Visualize the muscles at the back of the head by looking at the drawing of the epicranial muscles. Now place your fingers over the two muscular slips at the back of the head and try to detect contraction when you move the scalp. These strategies will eventually pay off. You will start to feel a slight bunching up of the occipitalis muscles.
The scalp exercise does three things: It quickens the blood flow to the whole epicranial area. By epicranial area I mean the skin of the scalp; the layer under the skin, which is called the subcutaneous layer; and beneath this, the muscles and the galea. It strengthens the walls of the capillaries that nourish the hair follicles, and perhaps promotes the growth of new capillaries in scalp tissue (angiogenesis). Read Exercise and Angiogenesis: Two Articles for a further elaboration on this. It increases the flexibility and elasticity of the whole scalp. There is a positive correlation between a tight scalp and male pattern baldness. "Scalp tension is etiologic of MPB." - That is from a current textbook on dermatology. These three things should halt the shrinking of the hair follicles and even reverse the shrinking process, which in turn should halt hair loss and promote the growth of new hair. This simplistic statement needs much elaboration. I'll give this elaboration as you keep scrolling.
How long are you supposed to do this exercise for each day?
Joshua Ward
15 minutes.
3x25 ideally
Grayson Bennett
bump
Jayden Myers
lmao
thanks for the laugh op
Lincoln Miller
>can fly into space. >cant figure out a simple way to fight baldness. fuck.
Ethan Kelly
So its saying people go bald because their head muscles get tight, and not because of dht?
Leo Cooper
Nope. The scalp doesn't get "tighter", it doesn't have enoough bloodflow. It's not guaranteed to work, but it has worked in most cases in the long term. DHT does have an impact but gaining control of this muscle and exercising it can lead to great effects in the long term (8-12 months).
Better hair is guaranteed, though.
Jordan Jackson
bump
Angel Brown
Wont this give me a bunch of forehead wrinkles?
Tyler Green
nope
And honestly, even if it did, would you trade your wrinkles for a bald head?
Adrian Roberts
Couldn't you just take good flushing niacin to increase scalp bloodflow?
Literally my favorite thing to do during a niacin flush is scalp massage
Justin Butler
Sucking B B C works way better whiteboi
Anthony Russell
thats basically how minoxidil works. it increases the bloodflow
Isaiah Thomas
I'm like a norwood V, should I even bother with this?
Lincoln Powell
what you're advocating is equivalent to taking steroids but not working out.
What could possibly go wrong? Do you have vellum hair (small, thin hair) If you do, this makes them thicker.
Aaron Allen
had the same thought, how do i know that this isn't an elaborate scheme by OP to make himself more aesthetic by ruining other peoples aesthetics?
Robert Gutierrez
Good old Hunter. You and I, user, would get along just fine.
Xavier Butler
It's not. Did you even visit the websites I linked?
