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Understanding Hair Restoration – a conversation with Dr Matee Rajput
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Hair transplant specialist Dr Matee Rajput explains what is involved in having a hair transplant.
Dr Matee Rajput is a specialist in hair transplant and the founder of the MinSim FUE™ technique.
Approximately half of all men and many women will experience some form of hair loss as they age. Undertaking some form of hair restoration treatment is increasingly popular.
In this episode of the Abeceder health and well-being podcast Fit For My Age, Dr Matee explains to host Michael Millward what is involved in having a hair transplant.
In their conversation Michael and Dr Matee discuss
- The causes of hair loss
- Some of the myths surrounding hair loss
- How hair loss can be caused by or an indicator of other health conditions
- Preventing and delaying hair loss
- The stages of deciding to opt for a hair transplant
- Non-surgical options
- The transplant process
- Post operative care
- The future of hair care and hair loss prevention and restoration
Find out more about Dr Matee and Michael Millward at Abeceder.co.uk.
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Introduction to 'Fit For My Age' and Dr. Matty Rajput
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Hello and welcome to Fit For My Age, the health and wellbeing podcast from Abbasida. I'm your host, Michael Millward, the Managing Director of Abbasida.
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Today, i am talking to Dr. Matty Rajput about hair hair loss and what you can do about it. As with every episode of Fit For My Age, we will not be telling you what to think, but we are hoping to make you think.
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Dr. Matty is a follicular unit extraction surgeon and he will explain more about what that means. He's based in the northwest of England but has clinics across the yeah UK and
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and probably well worth telling your family, friends and colleagues about as well.
Understanding Hair Transplant Process
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hello Hello, Dr. Matty. Hi, Michael. Can we please explain a little bit about the work that you do? The common term is a hair transplant surgeon. As you described, flicker unit extraction, what that means is ah you take one strand and transplant one strand. a strand into area where it's needed. So essentially, you take it from the back of your head where you have lots of hair and then you transplant it into area where it's needed. Typically, it's either the crown or the front of the head to actually restore your hairline.
00:01:49
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Although you lose your hair from the front and the the top, there's always that bit around the sides and the back. No one ever loses that hair, do they? No, we don't tend to lose the hair from the side and the back.
Hormones and Hair Loss Patterns
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And it's all to do with the hormonal changes. We call them androgens. So in females and ah males, they're slightly different hormones.
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These hormones are responsible. They have cells and then also they have molecules which set that which act as like signals. and And when you reach a certain type of age or due to certain factors, they act upon the cells and then that kind of stimulates or starts the process of you losing your hair in a certain region of of your head.
00:02:28
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It varies what kind of pattern people have. Typical pattern is you tend to start losing hair from the temples, from your hairlines and then or you can start losing it from the front or a combination where people just lose hair in the crown and and at the front at the same time. Everyone ah varies and there's different components and there's some genetic components to it as well. If you're Family members have had hair loss ah in a typical ah way. You tend to have similar way of providing, like, you know, your diet, your other health is pretty much the same.
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And other environmental factors are same as well. Although there's a genetic element to it, but the other side of it, if you follow the same diet and have the same type of exercise routines as your father, you're more likely to replicate the type of baldness that he had.
Debunking Hair Loss Myths and Health Indicators
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It's not necessarily from your father. The typical myth that's been in the hair industry for a long time is the hair loss comes from your mother's side. But that's not necessarily true. It can come from both sides.
00:03:28
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I would say genetic component plays around about 25 to 30%. The rest of it is, for example, your stress factors, your mental health and well-being, and also any illnesses, any medications you're taking for anything, the weight loss injections, that's going to have a massive and a profound impact on hair loss in the future.
00:03:47
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And in females, things like if you've got polycystic ovarian syndrome or thyroid problems or hormonal problems during menopause, or during pregnancy all these things can contribute to the hair hair loss and hair problems usually are the first sign of something else not right with your body hair and skin are the first thing to show that something is either deficient or something is is not right in your body so if you think there's nothing wrong nothing going on and usually you're excited to experience hair loss or hair thinning when otherwise you you feel absolutely well in yourself, it's a good thing to go and just get yourself checked because it may simply be that you might just be deficient in certain vitamins such as zinc, B12, vitamin D and iron. So it could be just something simple simple as that which you can treat yourself with over-the-counter supplements.
00:04:37
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Or it could be something more serious. You may not be aware it could be bowel problems that you're not absorbing the vital vitamins and minerals from your diet. and or it could simply be just down to stress. you might have had a like a job change or a bereavement a relationship issue or something like that that can cause ah stress. And stress is one of the biggest things that affects vitality hormones in the body.
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So stress doesn't just impact your hair loss, it can impact the way you feel, it can impact your diet, impact the way you sleep. So all of these things can be affected. When you notice something not so right with your hair, it's worth just going to your doctors just to get a general checkup and maybe you can find the cause and help to treat that and restore your
Managing Health to Delay Hair Loss
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hair loss. When you say that genetics are only 20% of the cause of hair loss, the other 80%, which is that general health and lifestyle choices, that's for many men, will be quite a surprise because we just accept that as we get older, our hair will thin and 50% of us as men will start to go bald in some way.
00:05:43
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What you're saying, I think, is that if we manage our health better, we can put off or reduce the 20% genetic risk by having a healthier life and monitoring our health better. We're looking at around about 50% of men will lose hair or experience hair loss by the age of 50. All of these things, diet, medication, all these things, just delay the inevitable.
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So eventually you' you are going to experience ah hair loss. So it's you have to just understand that it's something that majority of the population is going to go through. i mean, most definitely after the age of 40, but certainly after the age of 50, you are going to be affected. It's something that that you can actually delay or with the new novel ah treatments and also better management or better understanding around hair loss. we can actually do something about it. Before it was just expected that men in their 40s were expected just to lose their hair and just live with it.
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Now it's becoming a choice to live without hair or without doing anything is actually a choice rather than, you know, something you just have to just suck up and live with. yeah an inevitable part of ageing, I suppose, we can actually proactively manage our health so that we have it has a positive impact on our hair and, as you were saying, also our skin as well. We all go to a dentist to look after our teeth regularly. a tooth is a tissue that needs to be looked after. Similarly, your hair is a growing tissue. and your scalp and skin, it is a growing tissue. So you have to look after it, you have to maintain it. And if you don't look after it, like with your teeth, they start rotting away, start falling out, start you start having problems. Similarly with hair, you start losing it. and But if you can maintain it, nourish the scalp, nourish the hair, follicles and look after it, maintain it, you can maintain it for a long a lot longer period than otherwise it would be.
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One of the things that I was once told is that men don't actually lose their hair. It just moves about. So it moves from your head to your chest. And if you've got a hairy chest, then you're more likely to lose your hair as well. Is there any evidence to support that? So it's to do with the androgens, you know, youre the level of testosterone in your body and DH. ah So men who tend to have high level of testosterone in their body, they tend to be more hairy.
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I mean, there's no link, but it's all to do with the level of ah what we call DHT level of hormones. That's why a lot of the medications
Medications for Hormone Regulation
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that are now available, such as finasteride, dutasteride, they all impact that and try to delay the increase of a certain type of hormone, which is a byproduct of testosterone. to build up in your body. So the medication are there to suppress it, the conversion.
00:08:26
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And that's whether you start losing hair on your scalp or whether you have hair on your body. If you can maintain the levels, safe level of hormones in your body, there's no reason why you should lose your hair so quickly. Whether there's a genetic component to having a hairy chest and no hair at the top, I'm not sure.
00:08:43
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People who tend to have more hairy chest tend to be people from the Asian background or the Mediterranean background. But you you don't see more bold people in those regions than you would do it, say, in the Western world.
00:08:54
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With hair, for every fact, there are a thousand myths. yeah It's getting to that level of understanding of the food that we eat, the exercise that we take will impact our health. And one of the signposts of good health, poor health, coupled with genetic issues as well, is the state of our skin and the state of our hair.
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I went to the northern regions of Pakistan two years ago with a group of friends. And what we saw there was, interestingly, people living to nearly 100. The area is called Hunza Valley. It's famous for its glacier water because it contains, I think the water itself contains 82 of the 120 vitamin minerals that are required for life. Their diet is mainly based fish, nuts and just everything organic like apricots and walnuts, almonds. They don't eat any processed food. The person who was just taking us around the guide, he said his grandma died a couple of weeks prior to the expedition, but she was 106.
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And she was
Natural Diets and Healthy Hair Observations
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just walking and doing normal housework and amazed and shocked. And one of the other things we noticed, all the men who were there in their 80s and 90s, there was very few men who were bold. And I asked them, what's the reason? And they said, it's purely the diet. And if you then compare that with the rest of Pakistan or the rest of Indian subcontinent,
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That particular population has unique you know life expectancies, unique health health. And you don't even see many health clinics in those regions because lack of requirement, because people generally die of natural causes like old age. We saw lots of people in their 80s and 90s just cutting out their normal work. And they all had amazing hair. That's down to diet. And also when you're living in a natural environment where there's lots of greenery, nice seasons where where life is moving nicely and slowly, you tend to have less stress in your life. You do hear biblical stories or chronic stories or, you know, in the Old Testament, some of the individuals lived for hundreds of years.
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You can understand that because they lived in very healthy environments and their diets were all natural based. The more we're moving into the process, chemical manipulation of our food or non genetically modified food, ah yeah less healthy we're getting as a population generally. And that's reflected in the the number of people getting diabetes, the number of people getting stressed, the number of people having cancers at a young age.
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Inevitably now we're going to start seeing hair loss epidemics coming up because of all these people trying to counteract that with all these weight loss injections and one of their side effects is hair loss.
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which you don't hear an awful lot about, but I suspect with every tablet, every injection you take, there is some sort of side effect.
Emotional Journey to Hair Transplant Decision
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Hair transplants are are not a new thing, are they? They've been around for a long time.
00:11:34
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When someone comes to see you, what is the most common thing that they're saying as being the reason why they've decided to go for a hair transplant, a surgical option to change their hairline? It starts off really simple. So you first come aware that you've actually started to lose hair, kind of accepting it to yourself that that has happened. ah You get frustration, emotions that people describe, they get frustration, denial, a loss of confidence. I've had patients who've not left their homes for like three months once they've started noticing their hair loss. And the first person they come and see I said they're families myself. I've had patients where footballers who were getting abuse in the terraces,
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Even for a slight slight amount of hair loss, they correlate that with their performance. A 17-year-old girl who came with her mum and dad because she had a high hairline, she was getting lots of abuse and bullying at school, so she treated herself to a hair transplant on her 80th birthday because I don't do procedures before that. And it's the thing that she'll be looking forward to to most of her teenage years. So that's the first situation. And then you start seeking information and then getting and diagnosis. if You tend to see a doctor or a hair clinic or or a trichologist who then tells you whether your hair loss is due to
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androgenic alopecia which is age-related or whether it's alopecia errata where you can just lose hair due to stress no particular cause or where you can lose hair due to like traction pulling all sorts of different things then most people tend to go through a non-surgical option first and the common ones are minoxidil also known as regain or finasteride also known as propecia or And they try supplements, shampoos. And the other thing they treat, which has now become quite common in the last five, six years, is PRP, platelet-rich plasma treatment, where you take your own blood and spin it in the machine, take the good blood out, platelet-rich, and then inject that under the skin, in the scalp. And that tends to improve the quality of the hair. doesn't give you new hair follicles, but it improves the quality of existing hair follicles.
00:13:36
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And when you've kind of done that for one year or 18 months or so, you then tend to accept that, actually, i need I need to get it surgically restored. That's when they come and see clinics like our ourselves, who specialise in hair restorative surgery.
Hair Transplant Procedure Details
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We then see them, we can then give them different options. And sometimes patients, even when we say them see them, depending on type of their hair loss, We then tried we then encourage them to continue new non-surgical treatments if that's what suits them. Or we would actually say, actually, this is what you need. This is how many grafts you need. This is what your likely expectation will be. And we'll give them lots of examples based on all the patients that have shared their stories with us. So patients then get an understanding on what to get. And then, yeah, after that, they book in for a hair transplant.
00:14:24
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What's the actual process of having the hair transplant like? All that's done and patients, the patient comes in, sees myself in the morning of the hair transplant. We go through again the treatment plan and also a post-op plan, which has already been sent to them by our clinic, the KSL clinic. All the clinics do slight variations. So the clinic that I work with do that. And then pre consultation morning operation consultation, just make sure that all their medical history is fine and they're happy to go ahead. They haven't changed their mind about which area they want to treat. or how they want to treat it. They haven't changed their mind about the hairline, so we we but we prep them up, draw the hairline, and then we shape the back of the head where we're going to take the hair from. We tend to take the hair from a ratio like one to three. That's the safe ratio. So you take hair one follicle and miss two.
00:15:16
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So what you don't want to do is called scarring and also, you know, take too many grafts from the back to make it look unnatural at the back of your head. That process takes about two hours to take the grafts out.
00:15:26
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And then the patient has a lunch for about half an hour. Then ah we recheck the hairline with the patient. If they're happy, I will then ah again give the anaesthetic and make incisions. That usually takes another hour. Patients then are enjoying watching Netflix whilst my team is actually putting the hair in one by one.
00:15:44
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And that takes another two and two to two and a half hours. So all in all, you're looking at between five and a half to about seven hours. book a day really to have everything sorted but you're doing it one hair follicle at a time. Yeah so you're looking at a typical hairline can be anywhere between 1800 to 2200 grafts you're essentially looking at making about 5000 tiny tiny holes in someone's head at the back when you're taking them out at the front when you're putting them in.
00:16:11
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Right and they all have to be lined up so that you end up with a natural hairline as well. Yeah, I mean, I myself have had a hair transplant as well. So if you looked at my hair, you wouldn't know you wouldn't know that I've had it done. So that's the key. you You want to make it look natural as part of yourself and making sure that it looks naturally for you. We do get many patients, especially the young patients who are heavily influenced by social media and reality TV shows. They want straight hairlines. And sometimes as a doctor, you have to tell them that it's not going to look good.
00:16:43
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So we don't recommend that. And sometimes you get patients who have had lot of psychological issues. They just fixated on a particular celebrity and they want that hairline, even though the person's physique, the face looks nothing like that particular
Balancing Expectations for Transplant Outcomes
00:17:00
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celebrity. So it's it's actually more of dealing with body dysmorphia than the actual medical issue there. So for example, and you have to then try to get them to reach a compromise. But it sounds as if what you're actually aiming to achieve is what the hairline was before yeah the hair loss started, because that is the natural look. Yes, and the clear guidance is that I get them to raise their eyebrows. Your forehead has muscles, so what you don't want to do is go below that, because every time you move yeah you raise your eyebrows, you you don't want your hair to move. You want to make sure that the the scalp is separate from your forehead.
00:17:35
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So what I tend to do is I tend to not to do anything beyond what I think will look normal for the patient. That's where I stop. I have a red line. I don't tend to cross that red line. And you can only take hair from the back of the head. You couldn't, for example, use hair from someone's back or someone's chest. You can, you can take hair from anywhere. And you can put them anywhere. So sometimes i take them from under the beard. right So under your chin, in the area that you don't really see in someone's beard. And because the density is less than the back, you tend to take a lower number.
00:18:07
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And that's assuming that you've exhausted all the, you know, the donor area at the back of the head. This is that patients who you're looking at, what we call a no order one to seven, where someone's completely bowled from front to back. You've done it two procedures already where you've done the front and the back hair transplant and then your patient needs some extras. That's when you tend to take them from the...
00:18:28
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And the change you can take it from the chest, but this the density is really weak. So you don't tend to, and the chest hairs don't really grow that long. So what you don't want to do is have curly hair. I've had people asking me to take their leg hairs and put them on their chest in all sorts, which i I declined to do so. But you can't technically take them. I've only taken it two or three times from the chest hair.
00:18:50
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And that that was someone who didn't who had no hair but wanted ah just to have you know the small stubble look rather than the actual um yeah growing their hair out. yeah Because there are limitations to what you can do with hair from different regions.
00:19:04
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The hair in different regions has is pre-programmed to grow to a particular length, so to speak. Yeah, so most Caucasian and Asian people have straight hair. yeah However, if you take their beard hair, the beard hair is curly hair. If you take their chest hair, it's curly hair. yeah It doesn't grow in a straight line ah like the hair on the scalp. So you put that hair in front of someone's hairline, you're going to get... weird shaped hairline and we tend yeah so we so those are the things that I remind my patients because I do get these questions all the time and especially like what I mentioned your patients from you know the Mediterranean and Asian background where they have lots of hair on their chest I do get that request a lot what's the sort of success rate I'm assuming that it's not 100% guaranteed that everything's going to be perfect every time That's true. Because it's a medical procedure, you can never guarantee from a medical perspective the outcome. However, I'm working with a clinic, KSL Clinic, and even my previous clinics that I work with, we guarantee that if you don't get 80% growth, we rectify you free of charge. the The reason why we can't give 100% guarantee is because of the guidance given to us by you know the Quality Care Commission that you can't do that. However, the simple concept we have at KSL Clinic is that
00:20:18
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If we've done a hair transplant with you and you're not happy with it for whatever reason, we rectify that for your charge. So a patient who will come to see me will walk away filled with full confidence that their hair has actually been treated.
00:20:31
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And I do tend to treat about five to six patients a month from other clinics in the UK and also clinics from Turkey where patients have had hair transplant, maybe one or two, but they're still not happy. The concept that I have is...
00:20:44
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Who am I to judge whether this hair transplant is good on a patient or not? The patient themselves decides that. So if for whatever reason the patient's not happy or the patient is amin and idling about the hair transplant, we we ask them what do they want. And if they want a slight tweak or slight alteration, we do it free of charge. That's our guarantee. so you shouldn't So patients who come and see me will know that they'll get... they're almost guaranteed to get a perfect result from what they set out. So from what the expectation we set out at the consultation. Okay.
00:21:16
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Once you've finished the surgical part of the process, the person gets ready
Post-Surgery Care and Expectations
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to go home. What are the sorts of things that they can expect will happen after the surgical process?
00:21:27
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So let's say I've done your front half of the head will be about two and a half to three thousand grafts. And we will then give you a two week postdoc pack. It contains a neck pillow, shampoos, medication, antibiotics to prevent infection, all the things that you may require for the next two weeks. And we give you a step by step, but dayby day by day guidance on what to do.
00:21:48
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and So your scabs will fall out. Remember, there's skin tissue with the hair when we take it from the back. So that skin tissue will then fall out. And after two weeks, you'll have your tiny little hair almost look like a size one haircut sticking out.
00:22:02
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Okay. yeah First a couple of days is critical that you don't get let anything touch your hair. And then essentially after that, you just have to be really sensible that nothing touches your transplant area.
00:22:13
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The donor area will recover absolutely fine after a couple of weeks. The interesting thing that happens after two weeks, all the transplanted hairs start falling out between two weeks and with a period of six weeks. At the end of six weeks, you kind of look like what you look like before the transplant.
00:22:28
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At two months and four months, we recommend a PRP treatment. You can have it more frequently if you want. And then after about four months, you start noticing about 25 to 30% of the hair follicles coming through. Around about six months, about 70 to 80% come through. Around about nine months, most of them come through.
00:22:46
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And we tend to like judge a hair transplant procedure. Previously, it used to be about 18 months, but we now tend to just make a judgment to see whether your hair transplant will be successful at one year, at 12 months. And if a patient's not happy for whatever reason, we we sort that out. But...
00:23:01
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You're talking about 95% of the patients are absolutely fine. They have amazing results. Right. But it's not a quick fix. It is a long term process that you need to be committed to because I suspect that a large part of the success could actually be how the patient themselves treats their hair post-operations. Yeah, so one of the reasons why we get invariable results is because of that. ah Some patients are very good at adhering to treatment plans, some patients aren't. Some patients take the medication, some patients don't. Some patients might walk out of the clinic and bang their head and then not tell you they've done that. are Some patients might wash their hair ah you know inappropriately.
00:23:42
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So there's all these factors. id So that's why we can't offer 100% guarantee because yeah ah it's all subjective. you kind of have to. it's like It's like getting a knee operation done. If you get a knee operation done, you have to start doing early physio. You have to start doing all of that stuff. If you don't, you're not going to get the full range of movements as a person who's had a knee surgery done.
00:24:03
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And it's really important. it only depends on the patient because it's a growing tissue. But once you look after your hair, say for two weeks... and you look after it really well for two weeks, once the hair has fallen out, the regrowth of the hair will then start following the same cycle as your existing hair.
00:24:20
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So you then have to take care of your hair, hair transplanted hair, as you would your existing hair anyway. yes I say to patients, after two to three weeks, return back to your normal life. Don't be too concerned about taking too much care of your hair. Nature will do it, do whatever it needs to do. You just need to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Yes.
00:24:38
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Can you use hair from another person? No. Or does it have to
Ethics of Donor Hair Use
00:24:42
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be from the patient? It has to be from the patient. The reason being is technically hair a follicle is an organ. It's a tissue. Just like a kidney.
00:24:49
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Yeah, when you take a kidney from another person and give it to a recipient, they have to be on these immunosuppressive drugs for the rest of their lives. What that means is your body recognizes that kidney as something foreign. So your body's natural reaction is to attack it.
00:25:03
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right You then have to suppress your immune system. I don't know if anyone's ever done it. I don't know if it would be ethical. I've never heard of someone's hair transplant on another person be working... without them needing you know any other medical intervention. I've never seen that done before. Because it's it's a procedure that improves your your image, don't know whether ah you would get the ethical approval for that or the medical necessity for that. What they are doing now is we we're moving towards where they're trying to grow hair on mice,
00:25:33
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ah you know, through cloning or taking tissues or using these advanced stem cell techniques to actually take your own hair follicles and, you know, try to improve
Future of Hair Regrowth Research
00:25:41
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them. BP405, where research is going on at the moment where ah you take that peptide and it improves the actual cell structure of the the hair follicles. And then even if your hair follicle gone dormant, when you actually lose hair, you don't actually lose hair it just goes dormant the hair follicle so the new research is based on trying to reactivate those dormant hair follicles that's what finasteride tries to at hormone level that's what minoxidil tries to do and dritasteride that's what all these medications tend to do And that's what even PRP tries to do is because PRP contains stem cells and platelets, which then have growth factors with them, try to actually reactivate the the follicles. So that's what the new treatment is. So in the future, yeah um you're probably possibly looking about four or five years away where ah you can actually stop your hair loss getting worse.
00:26:34
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At an early stage. So if you act an early stage where before you've actually lost your hair and it's starting to thin, if you act at that point, you can actually reverse hair loss. Right, yes. So we're getting to that stage. But once you've lost hair, then the only really viable solution is actually a hair transplant. I can see why you're so fascinated about it because it is such a complex issue and each individual is different.
00:26:59
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And for you, I suppose, no two days will ever be the same. Yeah, I've had the variety of patients that i have from all sorts of background and how it impacts them amazes me even to this day. I've done one of the richest men. I've done royalty. I've done ah footballers. I've done the the guy who just works in Tesco's or... The guy who just works in Asda, I've done someone who just works in a warehouse. Every single person has a different story about how their hair loss has impacted them and what their hair loss journey has been.
00:27:28
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Even footballers, every every single person has a different... um ah And I've gone through it myself. I do think that a lot of ah men who go have middle-aged crisis or go through problems ah in their relationship or in their life or their work, one of the new things that I'm working towards with my ah brother and another group of doctors is we're now am going to have a metabolic clinic in London, ah which is going to be looking at all of these things and see whether we can help to...
Dr. Matty's Metabolic Clinic Plans
00:27:59
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you know, almost like do an MOT on your body when you start hitting late 30s and early 40s and restart your, make sure you get your vitamin levels, mineral levels and also hormone levels back to where they should be and prevent, you know,
00:28:15
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and aging ah faster so slow down the aging process of your cells of your vital tissues by making sure that your hormone levels are optimum levels. it Sounds fascinating I'll have to invite you back to ah explore that in more detail but for today
Podcast Conclusion and Further Exploration
00:28:33
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Dr. Maiti it's been so interesting I really do appreciate your time thank you.
00:28:39
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Thank you Michael. I am Michael Millward, the Managing Director of Abbasida. In this episode of Fit for My Age, I have been having a conversation with Dr. Matty Rajput.
00:28:50
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