Success with Scalp Massage

Growdamnit wrote:If it helps you at any case, I am 25, have a receding hairline and have tried many, many things. I have been doing DT for over a year now and can attest to it's ability to reduce hard spots and swelling in the scalp. It feels good after a while, so why not? Does it create healthy environment for hair? Yes, I believe it may help, yet hair loss is a multifactorial approach for most people (cannot be so sure with females, sorry ). I would assume it would help you if you were to have a good diet, proper supplements, lifestyle, etc. You need everything right to even start growing hair.

Markus wrote: Hey, thx for the post – but I cannot share the hype. Its a useless image. The hair is longer, but you can still guess that the temples and vertex are NOT regrown but the hair is covering the spots. Thats something most ppl with hair loss are perfect in – trying to cover the […]

JD Moyer: Hi Markus — I did try to take a better comparison picture from the same angle and address some of the criticisms from the first post.

I don’t have any bald spots I’m trying to cover up. I suppose if my hair were 1/4″ short I could “prove” that — if I cut my hair that short I’ll take some more pictures and post them.

Re: temples, that is the 20% (my rough approximation — I haven’t been using calipers) of my lost hair that has not yet grown in. My hairline in front is still a “V” shape, not straight across. I am growing my hair a little longer these days (because it no longer looks like a comb-over when I do) but next time I cut my hair as short as in the very top picture, I’ll post a picture from the same front angle. It still looks like I have a receding hairline from the front, but in fact it’s advancing (albeit slowly — no quick fix here).

To some extent this is a game I can never win. No matter how many pictures I post, some people will never be convinced that I have regrown a lot of hair with this technique. But I will take your criticisms in good faith and post more pictures down the road.

I assume you are interested, if skeptical, in this technique if you are still reading and commenting. Have you tried it yourself? For how long?

I don’t think this technique is for everyone. It’s a big time commitment, there’s very little research to back it up, and progress is very slow. Consider the above statement “anti-hype”!

My guess is that in a few years time we’ll have a better idea of how effective this technique across the board. Maybe someone will try to replicate Choy’s initial study. If not, we’ll know more from anecdotal posts and shares like mine and those on the immortalhair forum (including comments from folks who have tried the technique with NO results).