I can vividly remember on my 24th birthday, my hair didn’t look the same as it did in prior years. When a couple months elapsed and I started my first accounting job, I revisited my appearance in the mirror. When I homed in on my physical appearance, I noticed a shocking blow in how much hair I lost!!! Parting my hair in different directions looked as if it was mowed down in a diffuse pattern.

As a 24 year old, hair loss was real! I was so stunned I didn’t know what to do next. I was mortified to even confront a hair care specialist or dermatologist. Just the thought alone was frightening as I didn’t want them to think less of me.

At that time, my social interests were completely shattered. I was extremely disconnected from the outside world and I couldn’t stand looking at myself in the mirror. Part of me felt as though I had leprosy, only without the physical, rotten deformations. The Joe who was once revered by his loved ones as upbeat and outgoing, became a completely different person – melancholic!

Because hair loss got the best of me, I constantly had suicidal thoughts desperately crying aloud every night to the Almighty. How can He who’s so interested in how many hairs you have allow such a horrific suffering eat every aspect of my identity…my self-esteem…my quality of life…my will power? I told myself, I can sit and cry all day and nothing will ever be the same or accept my condition and actively find a resolution by TAN (Taking Action Now). So, I had nothing to lose and did just that – I TANned!

For four grueling years, I searched diligently and tried various products only to be left with much disappointment. Above is a rundown list of the treatments I’ve tried.

Can you guess how much I spent? A staggering...

As you can see from the table, my hair recovery using a laundry list of products was a colossal failure! I spent over $2,000 on treatments over the course of four years only to get negligible hair improvement. I know the number displayed in the chart above is a precise number. After all, I am a CPA who values accuracy, reliability, and honesty. I just didn’t want to slap on a rounded number from thin air because that would be misleading.

If I only read this staggering tagline a couple years ago, my trouble, misery, and more than $2,000 would’ve been spared!

Words couldn’t describe how I felt during those four ugly and humiliating years. I wanted to end my life then and there. I sweated “blood”, wasted four years of my life, and spent my hard earned money down the drain only to experience more abandonment, despondency, and emptiness! Without question, that was the darkest moment of my life!

But something inside me kept telling me this wasn’t the end. That inner voice lifted me up from the “dungeon” I was living in and pushed me to persevere until I found the answer I was looking for.

And when I kept tenaciously searching on Google for more credible hair loss solutions, I clashed into several notable, empirical ideologies. I also read more anecdotes on hair loss forums and watched a plethora of YouTube success videos to recharge my hopelessness.

The findings made logical sense, but I didn’t want my thirst for finding the truth to end just yet. I became more determined than ever by God’s saving grace and strength to:

To me, knowledge is power. I didn’t want to make the same mistake twice of “drowning in the waters” by quickly jumping in without fully knowing if I am capable of swimming.

Instead of just buying that new cutting edge hair growth marketing product that comes out every year, I used professional skepticism and thought twice before blindly offering my credit card. I did my due diligence by validating any purported statements against the clinical medical database.

If there wasn’t a study or evidence-based paper, my interest in that hyped up hair “cure” product as the marketers usually deceptively say, would hastily dissolve.

Over the next two years of my hair loss journey, I have educated myself dynamically across the medical board. I read like there was no tomorrow across many prominent platforms studying about all the processes involved just to develop a single adorable hair follicle. Indirectly, digging in the hair loss literature was compulsory for me to learn about the human body holistically!

And so, I was bedazzled to find out that hair loss falls under three misconceptions:

If there was one big learning lesson I can extract during those four awful, hellish years of trial and error experiments it was this: Trying to resolve hair loss with a single-handed remedy is almost as worse as doing nothing!

Take my learning experiment as a hardcore lesson and don’t make the fatal common mistake others make when they first notice hair thinning – applying one individual solution at a time without a heterogeneous combination of other promising methods.

When my mind travels back in time, in a way, I thank my heavenly Father for my gruesome four year back-and-forth experiments. It was the first chapter in my life of truly understanding my full self, capabilities, strengths, weaknesses, and perseverance. It was as they say, a blessing in disguise.

Those four barbaric years might at first glance seem like a loss; but I now see it as a win! I became stronger and keenly knowledgeable about my surroundings. My senses were enkindled vigilantly to the point where I now can smell a scam artist before becoming the prey.

Using the versatile knowledge I’ve gained from the multitude of articles I’ve read, I developed a versatile system for ARRESTING HAIR LOSS AND BAD HEALTH in deep grounds that’s: