
Introduction
The way I analyse and contemplate life and my world these days I owe to my hair — or at least the lack of it — at a time in life when I thought I would need it most of all.

The way I analyse and contemplate life and my world these days I owe to my hair — or at least the lack of it — at a time in life when I thought I would need it most of all.
Hindsight can offer great opportunity to realise the need to change one's approach. I look at where I am today and how much hair I have, and recognise that this is all due to a proactive approach and the changes I made in life, all of which came from a motivation within. For me, this approach was about understanding, feeling, and reading the signs already available, in fact, to eachand every one of us, in the human body.
There are in the world two types of people, those that lose their hair and those that don't. Naturally, like many men I too was losing hair. I began feeling old and somewhat depressed at the thought of becoming bald. The more my hair would fall, the older I felt. The more of my forehead that appeared, and the more of my scalp I could see in a mirror or in any other reflection, the bigger my insecurity grew. My visits to the hair-dresser became a negative experience; hair-cuts took less time as my hair-line receded and hair became scarce. With each visit my scalp became more obvious.
There was the thought of expensive treatments or intervening with my body to get back — what was mine from the beginning — but this option just didn't sit right or feel normal. Nor do I agree with the philosophy of treating a symptom and completely ignoring the cause and underlying issues. There had to be an alternative as with most things in life, surely?
"Yesterday" was a day I decided to do whatever it took to stop rapid hair growth and to stop losing much more. I was not bald when I began my quest, although I was balding like the average male, rapidly. I wrote this book four and a half years after developing concern for hair loss, yet, the journey to keep my hair, will live with me until I die.
The following book shares my experiences and knowledge gained through research and a personal journey to regain the elusive hair on my head. I wish to share certain myths about hair in general, together with the techniques and lifestyle changes which aided my hair growth and regaining control of my body, my "mind", and in turn, my hair.