Sonnie’s Porch

Last night was a big night for my employer, together with company executives and senior managers, suppliers and tenants, and friendly competitors, the year long 50th Anniversary celebration commenced with a banquet, exhibit and musicale presentation about the life of the company’s founder . All the men are in formal black suit while the ladies wore elegant evening gowns (fotos and field report to follow).

With this, I have a quick stop at a barber shop to have my hair “trimmed”. And since by nature I already have thin hair and receding hairline, I told my barber “please, don’t put emphasis on what is already obvious” . Several months back when I had my haircut, my attending barber discussed about hair transplant , since he has an advance problem on balding. Lucky me, mine is just a case of receding hairline, and when someone tease that my forehead is similar to Steven Seagull or Nicolas Cage, I take this as compliment. My attending barber/consultant said he did not pursue the transplant because the procedure is unclear and his queries were not addressed, not to mention the cost.

This is where Dr. Shapiro’s Hair Institute is different. There is no middle man, Dr. Shapiro himself will address his would be client’s concern and will even arrange a meet up with past patients to discuss the experience. When I visited his website, I found that some of the nutritional supplements I take contributes to my thinning hair. I never knew that supplements meant for weight loss and mass gain (that increases the levels of testosterone) also develops DHT, a hormone that causes baldness.

Since I am into anabolic exercises, I take regular dose of protein shakes with supplemental amounts of creatine. I never thought that for every muscle I gain, I can loss a hair with the supplements I take. A forehead like Nicolas Cage is fine with me, but being bald? Paging Dr. Shapiro….