What's up guys and welcome to wall street millennial today we're doing a video on tesla, ceo and spacex founder elon musk, despite his ripe age of 49 years old musk sports, a healthy head of hair that most 30 year olds would be jealous of. However, this was not always the case in this interview from the late 90s when he was only 29 years old. His hairline was visibly receding and it looked like he would be bold within the next five years, given how much his hairline had receded. It almost seemed certain that he suffered from male pattern: baldness a genetic trait that causes males to lose their hairline as they age in 1999.

Musk had almost no hair in the front and top parts of his head. There are a few strands left that he let grow out in an attempt to cover his bald spots. However, once male pattern baldness sets in it advances very rapidly. At this rate, he would end up with a jeff bezos slick within three to five years.

However, the opposite ended up happening over the next two decades, his hairline completely regrew, and he now has a perfectly full hairline. Such a regrowth is not possible without intervention. He almost certainly got a hair transplant to achieve this result in this video we'll go over what male pattern baldness is how hair transplants work and when musk probably got his hair transplant male pattern. Hair loss is believed to be due to a combination of genetics and the male hormone dihydrotestosterone, dihydrotestosterone or dht is an endogenous androgen.

Sex steroid and hormone naturally produced in males dht plays an important causative role in pattern. Hair loss from a genetic perspective, elon musk's, father earl musk, appears to have a full head of hair. Despite his very advanced age. However, the genetic traits that cause male pattern baldness often skip generations.

There are very few available pictures of elon musk's grandfather, walter, henry james musk, and he is often wearing a hat, so it is hard to tell if he suffered from male pattern baldness even without genetic predisposition. Male pattern: baldness can also be caused hormonally by abnormally large levels of dht. The amount of dht present in the body from day to day depends on the amount of testosterone present when levels of testosterone increase morphine is converted to dht and so levels of dht. Therefore also increase, as a result, men naturally have more testosterone than women, and this is why male pattern baldness, is far more common than female pattern baldness.

It could be the case that elon musk had above average testosterone levels contributing to dht and causing his baldness professional bodybuilders use performance-enhancing supplements to boost their testosterone levels to supernormal levels. Consequently, many of them suffer hair loss and end up shaving bold. This could possibly explain jeff bezos's hair loss, as he does look quite jacked. In many pictures, however, musk had a pretty average physique in the 1990s, so it seems unlikely that he had excessive testosterone levels.

It's more likely. His receding hairline can be attributed to genetic factors. It is pretty obvious that musk did something to reverse his hair loss in 1999. Musk's, hair loss was extremely obvious by 2004 the loss had improved, but he still didn't completely have a full head of hair by 2010 there was no trace left of his previous hair loss.

Whatever treatment he took was extremely effective. There do exist, medications designed to slow hair loss, the most potent of which is called finasteride finest steroid decreases the body's dht production. Remember that dht is the hormonal cause of hair loss. Finosteroid is highly effective at what it does.

In some cases it can decrease dht by 70 percent. However, even if you decrease dht by 100, this will merely stop the hair loss. It will not cause hair that has already been lost to grow back. The only reasonable explanation for musk's hair recovery is a hair transplant.

Hair transplanting is actually a very common procedure. That's performed quite often, the vast majority of patients get their hair transplants to treat male pattern baldness. A surprisingly large number of men in the general population has had a hair transplant according to market insider. A recent study found that 1 in 13 men have had a hair transplant.

650, 000 hair transplants are done annually as the most effective treatment option for balding, which is actually increased. 60 since 2014, because of the high popularity of hair transplants, there have been many innovations in the procedures in recent years. The traditional methods include procedures, called follicular unit extraction and follicular unit transplant, where the hairs are literally removed from one area and put on the bald area. However, these methods are very time and labor intensive, thus putting a lot of fatigue on doctors and causing substantial pain and discomfort to the patient.

Newer techniques include using stem cells extracted from the patient and deposited in the bald areas. These stem cells are then stimulated to grow hair follicles. Also, there are new devices where the hair transplanting is done by a robot which can do the extraction and transplant more quickly and precisely, however, despite over 35 million men suffering from hair loss worldwide, the cost of getting hair transplants is still very high. This is why many men try to use every possible alternative solution first from shampoos that claim to help prevent hair loss to special over-the-counter treatments.

The actual price of a hair transplant for treating balding can vary widely, depending on how much area needs to be covered, but it ranges in the ballpark of four thousand dollars up to fifteen thousand dollars for most everyday people who aren't extremely rich. This is a lot of money to shell out, but because it is such a common problem for men around the world, an entire industry of what's called aesthetic tourism, has developed. Besides the us, the most popular places to get hair transplants are brazil, japan, mexico and italy. One clinic in brazil advertises hair transplants for one dollar and fifty cents per graft, which means per hair follicle that is transplanted most hair.

Transplants involve grafting 200 on the low end to as much as 3 000 follicles and what are called multi-day mega sessions at one and a half dollars per graft. That would put the cost of a hair transplant at that particular brazilian clinic at four and a half thousand dollars on the very high end about ten thousand dollars less than the high-end range of the us. The result of these savings is a booming industry. That is only growing, but elon musk, with a net worth estimated at 151.4 billion dollars does not even have to consider traveling internationally to get a good deal on a hair transplant.

He could theoretically afford to pay for 15 million hair transplant procedures in the us when you're that rich. Why pass up the opportunity to look your best, especially as a bonafide celebrity appearing on snl and elon, wouldn't even be the first male celebrity to get a hair transplant? There is broad speculation that nba star lebron james got a hair transplant at some point over the course of his career in his early and middle years of his career, his hairline could be seen visibly receding, leading to many jokes on the internet and in pop culture. He also started wearing a headband in public and during games and that headband gradually moved backwards along its head over the years, but in recent seasons it would seem that his hair has magically come back. He's never publicly admitted to getting a hair transplant, but the evidence with the headband his before and after pictures and the realities of the wonders, hair transplants can do leaves most people convinced hair transplant technology has improved dramatically over the past two decades in the 90s, when Musk probably first started experiencing balding hair transplant technology was still in its infancy and it's likely that he wouldn't have wanted to get it back then.

But in the present day, hair transplant procedures are common, safe and effective, and for someone like elon musk, it's accessible just by selling a couple shares of tesla sock, regardless of how he achieved it. Musk's hair regrowth is undeniably impressive. His full head of hair gives the illusion of youth. In reality he is actually 49 years old.

For example, look at prince william from england. His male pattern baldness, makes him look far older than musk. This is despite the fact that musk is actually 11 years older than william, alright guys that wraps it up for this video. If you like, this content, don't forget to like subscribe and share, make sure to check out our second channel wsm research, where we post dd on high growth socks.

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