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Answers to your questions about sex, hair, weight loss, and more-from Hims.
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The Early Signs of Balding and How to Stop Them
One of the keys to stopping hair loss is noticing the signs of baldness and taking action as early as possible.
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3 Signs of Balding You Might Not Have Considered
The most important step to fighting hair loss is to take a proactive approach. The sooner you take action, the better your chances are of keeping a full head of hair. The longer you wait to take action against male pattern baldness, the less effective your treatment program is likely ...
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Survey Results: Can I Have Facial Hair During A Job Interview?
When it comes to the workplace, whether you’re job hunting or if you’ve been in your role for some time, consider the first impression your facial hair is giving to recruiters and current co-workers. Is is positive or negative?
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Alopecia Barbae: Why Beard Hair Loss Happens and How to Treat it
Think of hair loss and you’ll usually visualize a receding hairline, thinning around the crown or diffuse hair loss that affects the entire scalp. However, not all hair loss affects your scalp. Alopecia barbae, an autoimmune condition, can cause you to lose hair from your face, resulting in hairless patches ...
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Stubble to Shaven: Which Facial Hair Style is the Sexiest?
Researchers asked 8,520 women to rate the attractiveness of men with varying levels of facial hair. The results are in...
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How Many Hairs Should You Lose a Day?
It’s easy to panic after noticing a large clump of hair strands on your pillow, in the shower drain or elsewhere in your home. While shedding some amount of hair is normal, shedding an abnormally large amount of hairs during your sleep or after you wash your hair could indicate ...
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Hairs in the Drain or on Your Pillow? How to Tell If You’re Going Bald
When you look at yourself in the mirror every day, it's easy to miss subtle changes in your appearance such as thinning hair around your temples or a receding hairline. Though these small changes may evade you, finding a clump of hair on your pillow will definitely make you sit ...
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Myth Busting: The Baldness Gene
Instead of settling for socks, coupons, or tacky sweaters, families all across the nation have been giving each other a more exciting holiday gift — DNA testing kits. In addition to assessing your ancestral history, these kits also test for the presence of different genes that range from the trivial ...
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Scarring Alopecia: How Scarring Can Cause You to Lose Hair
Most hair loss, whether temporary hair shedding or permanent hair loss that’s caused by male pattern baldness, occurs with no scarring. Scarring alopecia, or cicatricial alopecia, is an uncommon type of hair loss that’s accompanied by scarring. Instead of simply damaging the hair follicles, scarring alopecia involves completely destroying the ...
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Finasteride Side Effects: What Are They, And Are They Common?
The following is informational only and does not constitute medical advice. Always talk to your doctor about the risks and benefits of any treatment. Developed in the 1980s and in use since the 1990s, finasteride is one of the widely prescribed and well studied hair loss drugs available. Side effects ...
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