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🗓️ 17 June 2021
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As I was recently reading in a fashion magazine, hair has always been the primary indication of confidence for most men. When you consider that two-thirds of men see hair thinning by the age of thirty-five, and men’s hair restoration is a $1.5 billion industry, you began to understand how much confidence is contributed to a man’s hair.
But why?
In a Canadian survey conducted by researcher Rosemary Ricciardelli, men identified hair as being the primary link between their youth and attractiveness. Ricciardelli observed how men with a full head of hair — even the ones who weren’t particularly otherwise attractive — go out of their way to bring attention to their hair when meeting someone new.
These full-haired men tended to be more relaxed and confident in demeanor when dealing with other individuals because they feel like they represent the standard for the ideal man.
Ricciardelli helped prove this theory by asking the participants to physically describe their ideal male figure. All of the participants described men who were clean-cut with a full head of hair. We’re unconsciously groomed (pun totally intended) and conditioned (ha!) to think that a healthy man has a full head of hair. But how does this psychologically affect the way men actually feel in their hair? Perhaps a full head of hair reassures them of their healthy biological standing. Maybe the loss of hair reminds men of their mortal vulnerability.
Even men with gray hair prefer the color change over balding.
Beards also matter, as facial hair is also a key part of men’s self-identification. In one study, men with facial hair were considered more aggressive than clean-shaven men. Both men and women found men with facial hair to be more masculine, with a higher social status, than men who were clean-shaven.
More interestingly, men who are bald tend to accentuate their facial hair as compensation for balding. With the double whammy of baldness and facial hair, a man’s masculine appeal could be through the roof. So, to continue on the topic of hair and beard health in men (and the former in women too) that I visited on my recent podcast with Dr. Cameron Chesnut, I decided to continue to explore the topic of hair optimization.
My first guest, Jay Campbell, who first joined me on the podcast "Is Metformin Really Dangerous, Little-Known Peptides For Muscle Gain & Fat Loss, Testosterone Replacement Therapy & Much More!" is a 4x international best selling author, men’s physique champion, co-founder of Aseir Custom and founder of the Jay Campbell Brand and Podcast.
He is also a a Champion Men’s Physique Competitor and the best selling author of the Testosterone Optimization Bible and of The Definitive Testosterone Replacement Therapy Manual: How to Optimize Your Testosterone for Lifelong Health and Happiness. He also wrote a very popular article on my website entitled Testosterone Decoded, Shattering Testosterone Myths (& Everything You Need To Know About Testosterone Optimization Therapy).
As a global influencer on health optimization and raising human consciousness, Jay is no-nonsense, authentic, and fearless in his servant mission of leading humanity towards the Golden Age. Since returning from 12 days in The Sacred Valley of Peru, he's recently experienced a profound awareness of the importance of #RaisingTheVibration of humanity to reach planetary consciousness aka unconditional love. J
ay also introduced me to the company "Aseir", which he cofounded along with Nick Andrews (see below). Aseir makes a copper peptide GHK-CU and Carbon 60 (C60) (first explored in my epic podcast with Ian Mitchell you can get Aseir's Auxano for yourself with 15% discount code BEN15).
Also on this podcast is Jay's partner in crime Nick Andrews. As one of the world's top peptide product formulators, Nick draws from his 20+ years of expertise in the pharma world to develop industry leading peptide cosmeceuticals.
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0:00.0 | On this episode of the Ben Greenfield Fitness Podcast. |
0:04.3 | This is not snake oil. There's a lot of products in the hair loss industry that guys are preyed upon and they get poor to almost no result. |
0:11.4 | Like what? |
0:12.0 | Immediately before he starts the run and maybe 1 milligram after the run, if he never has any swelling, any stiffness or joint pain at all, he's just good to go. |
0:20.6 | It's like a robot. It creates like literally a physiological and a psychological addiction to users because they know that if they stop taking it, now all their hair is going to fall out. |
0:30.6 | Health, performance, nutrition, longevity, ancestral living, biohacking, and much more. |
0:41.2 | My name is Ben Greenfield. Welcome to the show. |
0:52.7 | Well folks, you've been paying attention to the social medias or maybe you heard my podcast with Dr. Cameron Chestnut about PRP and anti-aging and beauty and hair growth. |
1:04.8 | You're probably tuned into the fact that A, that's a topic I'm addressing quite a bit of late. B, I'm kind of using myself as a guinea pig, a very hairy, fuzzy guinea pig to see what of these tactics, you know, anything from consuming colostrum to doing micro-needling to clay masks to crazy peptides that you smear all over yourself can actually do when it comes to either getting rid of gray hair or reversing nail pattern. |
1:34.8 | Baldness or in my case, just wanting to sprout a giant old head of hair as a practice of seeing what I'm actually capable of achieving in the hair department. |
1:45.9 | So in part, thanks to my guests on today's show as well as my friend Dr. Chestnut who was in the podcast where I got covered with needles and platelet-rich plasma smear all over my face. |
2:00.2 | I'm kind of turning into like a fuzz ball. I mean, I'm now growing a beard. My hair is just absolutely sprouting out of control, you know, like those little sprouts I grow in my pantry except on my head. |
2:16.4 | And my whole family is calling me Mr. Scratchy because I'm just the giant hairy puffball walking around the house now. And I don't know, maybe I'll stop doing this at some point, but right now I'm just having a lot of fun growing out my hair and looking like a dirty hippie. |
2:33.3 | And yeah, maybe someday I'll even have a man bun. So first of all, you're no doubt aware that you can use light to tweak your circadian rhythm. |
2:42.2 | You can use it in good ways, right, by looking at things like sunrise or red lights in the morning or diminishing your use of, you know, high blue light producing devices in the evening. |
2:53.6 | And you can also, of course, get exposed to the type of blue light you made by phones and computers and TVs and light bulbs, even during the daytime that totally disrupt your body circadian rhythm. |
3:03.3 | And also lead to things like brain fog and, you know, almost like that headache in the back of your head after you've been working on your computer for a couple of hours. |
3:11.3 | So my hack for that is I wear a pair of yellow like computer style daytime blue light blocking glensis during the day and that night I switched to the red. |
3:23.1 | And I always lose my glasses. So I've got like a couple pairs of yellow, a couple pair of the reds just like scattered around the house. |
3:28.5 | And I get them from this company called raw. I use raw as well as R.A. Because not only do they use really attractive frame styles, Italian acetate and German engineer and metal. |
3:38.4 | But then their lens technology is different than a lot of other companies like it actually blocks the spectrum of blue light that it's supposed to. |
3:46.5 | And a lot of these other blue light blocking companies is like cheap imports that they then just like slap cool names on and mark up for lots of money. |
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