Are you starting to lose your hair and are afraid of ending up with a completely bald head soon? Simple gestures, cosmetic medicine, and tattooing can help you take the root problem.

Every morning, on the pillow, in the shower or while styling, you make the same observation: you lose your hair. And maybe soon by handles. Before joining the very welcoming club of men hiding their monk’s tonsure behind a horrible wick that they desperately tackle on the top of their heads, you can decide to act now.

“It is normal to lose an average of 50 to 100 hairs per day,” says Hélène Krause, doctor, and researcher for Phytosolba laboratories. But when this loss worsens, we move towards baldness. This affects one in two men. Most of the time it is hereditary. The first signs of this phenomenon can appear from the twenties, located on the top of the head, the forehead, the temples, and the temporal gulfs.

In most cases, this hair loss is linked to male hormones (androgenetic alopecia). Other factors can cause a significant fall such as intense stress, trauma, medication, or skin disease. But also chronic inflammation around the bulb. “Dandruff causes irritation of the scalp that affects the health of your hair,” says Dr. Krause.

But faced with androgenetic alopecia, which is the most frequent, we can act to slow down this process, before it is too late. In fact, caused by an excess of male hormones (also called androgens), this process begins at puberty. “We assess the severity of alopecia according to the Hamilton classification which ranges from 1 to 7,” explains Dr. Krause. “From stages 1 to 3, the hair begins to fall on the forehead until the top of the skull appears at the level of the vertex”. Beyond stage 4, it becomes difficult to act against baldness. Since it is still impossible to resuscitate the hair follicle at the end of the 25 hair reproduction cycles, here are 5 solutions to protect yourself against baldness.

1. Simple everyday gestures

Since prevention is better than cure, you can now take simple steps to keep your hair healthy and strong for longer. For starters, avoid products that are too aggressive for the hair, such as the abuse of dry shampoo, dyes, or gels. Opt for a mild shampoo with a neutral pH. You can even precede its application with a gentle massage of the scalp from the nape of the neck to the top of the skull. The blood circulation thus stimulated will make the scalp more receptive to care.

“You should avoid rinsing your hair with too hot water which attacks the scalp and makes it quicker to grease. In the sun, be sure to use sun protection or a hat to protect the scalp, ”adds Dr. Krause. A varied and balanced diet can meet the needs of hair in iron, copper, zinc, silicon and group B vitamins and essential fatty acids.

2. Cosmetic and pharmacological treatments

You can get specific food supplements like Phytophanère, from Phytoselba laboratories, formulated to strengthen and promote hair growth. You can also supply yourself with fall protection lotions sold commercially and in pharmacies. Men with very short hair can

Find help at Kérastase, which offers a fall-prevention roll-on with fortifying taurine and a massaging ball that stimulates microcirculation of the scalp. Vichy offers a fall protection treatment based on Aminexil which helps the root to better anchor in the scalp, and with a massaging applicator to stimulate microcirculation.

Phytosolba also offers a new hair loss product, Phytologist 15, which acts on 15 biological targets involved in hair loss and growth. This global treatment is formulated with cocoa extract, Baikal skullcap, Indian gentian, and Globularia plant stem cells.

3. Drug treatments

A dermatologist who will have assessed the severity of your hair loss can prescribe drug treatments. “This type of treatment can be used up to stage 5 of the Hamilton classification,” adds Dr. Krause. Hair lotions based on minoxidil stop hair loss by slowing down the hair cycle. Finasteride tablets are an anti-androgen inhibiting the activity of the enzyme 5α-reductase which affects the lifespan of your hair. But these drug treatments have important side effects, such as loss of libido, to take into account. Hence the importance of being followed by a doctor at the start of treatment.

4. Aesthetic medicine

If it is already too late to save your hair with simple gestures and specific treatments, you can use cosmetic medicine. The technique of micro grafting consists in taking pieces of healthy hair at the level of the crown of the head (where they are “eternal”) to graft them on the disaster areas. “Any lack of hair can be filled with a transplant, and this, at any stage of baldness,” reassures Dr. Jean-Albert Amar, dermatologist specializing in hair transplants. “But you have to be careful to choose a very good doctor who will imagine how your hair should develop in 20, 30, 40 years for a natural result” specifies Dr. Mauser.

The strip or flap technique involves removing a thin strip of scalp from the back of the head to re-implant each follicle in the area to be covered. Tedious, this 2-hour operation redistributes 4,500 hairs on average.

The Low-Level Laser Therapy , she is a laser therapy of low energy that acts as a bio-stimulation to promote hair growth.

5. Skull tattoo

For men in denial, you can always get dotted tattoos on the head to give the illusion of a shaved head by choice. Cheaper than a long cosmetic surgery, the scalp tattoo is democratized by Good Look Ink, a “micro-pigmentation clinic” which offers you invent hair for 5000 dollars. For reasonable men, we recommend the zero ball instead.