Elvis Suffered From Male Pattern Baldness

Elvis used to tell him to do whatever was needed to keep his hair on his head...

If you are just a regular guy going to work each and every day and you start to lose your hair it can obviously be pretty stressful, but imagine that your job depended on it. Actors and movie stars suffer from the stress related to male pattern baldness far more than regular men as their hair loss could change their image and the perception that the public have of them completely and thus they could be out of a job.

Ukmedix News has seen reports that the actor Jude Law is suffering from the male pattern baldness genetic condition and apparently is pretty stressed about it. Another famous person who apparently used the hair loss drug Propecia is none other than Tom Hanks. Probably the most famous person ever to have been worried about their male pattern baldness was none other than Elvis Presley.

Elvis lived in a time when there was much less information about male pattern baldness available and the wonder drug Propecia had not yet been invented. In those days people who wanted to keep their hair at all cost had to use a wig or go for a hair transplant. The only problem with a hair transplant is that the surgeons were not nearly as skilled as they are today and the results would have been pretty obvious.

Larry Geller who was the hair stylist for Elvis Presley had concocted a special formula to make the famous singers hair thicker and fuller. Mr Geller say said Elvis used to tell him to do whatever was needed to keep his hair on his head. Apparently the special formula used a mild shampoo and lots of Vitamin E as well as a number of other things to make the hair look fuller.

At Ukmedix News we know that while this special formula may have had some cosmetic advantages it would not have stopped the genetic process that causes male pattern baldness and in time Elvis would have probably had to resort to wearing a wig!