It’s not a question of if you will lose your hair. The questions are: How soon and how bad will it be?

A man loses between 50 and 100 hairs every day of his life.  That’s tens of thousands of hairs each and every year. That’s if you’re lucky.

If you suffer from male pattern baldness, you’ll lose hair at an even quicker rate:

So let’s spend some time talking about hair loss and the game.

First, if you suffer from male pattern baldness, start taking action immediately. Don’t live in denial. You are losing your hair.

If you are unsure whether you are losing your hair, have a friend compare your hairline to that chart. Anything that is II or below means your body is waging a war of attrition against your hairline. You are losing.

Use Rogaine. Get a prescription for Propecia or Dutasteride – which is actually more effective than Propecia:

We report on a 47-year-old man who was initially treated with finasteride for androgenetic alopecia. Despite continuous treatment, after year 4 his hair density was not as good as at year 2, and low-dose dutasteride at 0.5 mg/week was added to the finasteride therapy. This resulted in a dramatic increase in his hair density, demonstrating that combined therapy with finasteride and dutasteride can improve hair density in patients already taking finasteride.

 

Propecia is really expensive. In my town, it’s $190 for three months. It is possible to get Propecia from a research chemicals company. I’m not going to post any links. But if you search Google for “finasteride research lab,” you will find a lot of sites discussing how to get a good deal on Propecia.

I know many men who swear by Propecia. It is legit. It works. Get some.

Propecia has sexual side effects in some men, so if your body responds poorly, weigh the costs and benefits. I have an unfilled prescription for Propecia. Luckily my hair is still pretty awesome. But my mane is not what it was in my early 20s. I’ll need to fill my Rx eventually.

Second, if you’re over 30, get a short hair cut. It seems counter-intuitive, but shorter hair looks better on an older player. I bring this picture into a salon:

Third, if over 30, start seeing someone at a legit salon. A quality haircut is going to cost you. It’s worth it.

Third, if you’re going bald, shave that shit. And get a body. You must get a body.

In a non-homosexual way, look at the picture from right to left:

On the right, do you notice Daniel Craig’s shitty hairstyle? I think not. (Again, no homo.)

On the left, look at his hairline. It is highly receded. He is a 40-year-old man, after all.

You can notice his hairline despite his $250 haircut and Photoshop magic. Yet you (and girls) won’t notice his hairline at all in the picture on the right hand side.

If you are fat and bald, you are basically fucked. Do not be fat and bald.

If you are skinny and bald, you are not totally fucked. But life will be tougher. Do not be skinny and bald. Get some arms, shoulders, and pecs. Girls won’t look at your hairline because they will be too busy looking at your arms.

Fourth, have hope. Hair loss is inevitable. If you take the right drugs, build a good body, and dress nicely, it won’t harm your game too much.

One player put it best:

• Young and in shape with hair: did well.
• Young and in shape with less hair: did well.
• Older and in shape with missing hair: did well.
• Older and slightly out of shape with no hair: did badly.
• Older and out of shape with no hair: fucking awful.
• Older and in shape with no hair: doing well.

A fat body will cost you more lays than a bald head. You can’t totally stop hair loss, but you can control how fat you get.

Take care of your skin, too. If you have less hair on your forehead, you’ll call more attention to the fine lines and wrinkles on your face.

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I knew muscle was more dense (or as the kids say, “weighs more”) but didn’t realize it was this much more dense:

If you’re doing everything right in the gym (and not using steroids), you’ll be fortunate to put on 5-10 pounds of muscle in an entire year.

It takes a while to build up an impressive physique because 5 pounds of muscle doesn’t take up much space.

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Although American complain of oppression, their lives are rarely so hopeless that they end them. Men commit suicide at far greater rates than women. Four times greater.

The National Institute of Mental Health notes:

Are women or men at higher risk for Suicide?

• Suicide was the seventh leading cause of death for males and the fifteenth leading cause of death for females in 2007.
• Almost four times as many males as females die by suicide.
  
• Firearms, suffocation, and poison are by far the most common methods of suicide, overall. However, men and women differ in the method used, as shown below.

Suicide by:	Males (%)	Females (%)
Firearms	56	30
Suffocation	24	21
Poisoning	13	40

According to a new 2012 study, men are more likely to kill themselves than to die in a car crash. Think about that for a minute.

THURSDAY, Sept. 20 (HealthDay News) — More Americans now commit suicide than die in car crashes, making suicide the leading cause of injury deaths, according to a new study.

In addition, over the last 10 years, while the number of deaths from car crashes has declined, deaths from poisoning and falls increased significantly, the researchers report.

“Suicides are terribly undercounted; I think the problem is much worse than official data would lead us to believe,” said study author Ian Rockett, a professor of epidemiology at West Virginia University.

There may be 20 percent or more unrecognized suicides, he said.

Why do men kill themselves? Largely because men, unlike women, take action rather than complain.

Life often seems more hopeless for men than for women. A man without a job has few life prospects. A woman without a job can easily get on the government dole.

Men are being arrested and falsely imprisoned in record numbers for bogus rape and domestic violence charges.

Men are being denied the right to visit their own children.

I’m not going to get on a high horse and say suicide is not the answer. But anyone who is considering suicide should email me for my phone number.

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Young men often complain about the cruelty and unfairness of modern society. This moving video video of an old alpha lion (who had led an aggressive pack for years) being castrated by the young lions is a reminder that life is cruel. There are no rules. There is only exercise of will.

As one viewer writes, we can learn from this lion:

“A hard life. When one sees the heart and pride of a lion it becomes apparent most utilize the comparison too loosely. Fighting and not breaking to the end. Broken limbs, bleeding, massive wounds, and they still don’t give an inch. So much bravado and heart.

“If memory serves correctly the one getting killed in the vid (Kinky Tail or Mr. T) was one of two brothers who ruled an area with a high level of aggression and a high body count over the years. You reap what you sow I guess.

[Here is the backstory; and here.]

“The day before he and his brother killed a lion from the younger group. It too is on vid and it’s brutal as well.

“This time the tables turned and the level of violence which includes castration and hours and hours of torment and attack makes ones really feel.

“Amazing displays and sad as well.

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When Roosh posted this video of Gwen Stefani while noting how well she has aged, I immediately thought, “I’ll bet if I Google her name and vegetarian, something will pop up.”

Sure enough, it did:

Unlike many of her rock peers, Stefani has aged gracefully and maintained her form on stage for over 25 years. Going vegan has helped her persevere, and she notes “’t’s more for my brain than it is for my body.’ Yet veganism and exercising is not solely about mental health for Stefani, as she goes on to admit, ‘I like to wear clothes too much, so I try to keep focused.’

Mimi Kirk is a vegan. She’s 72.

William Shatner, who is a boss player at 80 years of age, was a vegetarian at one time.

Then of course you have Jack LaLane, a vegetarian, and Jay Kordich, a vegan.

Sylvester Stallone is something of a vegetarian.

Bill Clinton went vegan:

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Everything in civilization exists because a man decided to put it there. Men are natural builders, inventors, and problem solvers.

In a modern, feminized society, men have lost touch with their truth nature. Men have stopped building things. Factories are shut down, craftsmanship is dying out, and most of us work in white collar factory farms.

Think about the average corporate job. You sit in a cubicle or office. You shuffle paper. Most of what we do is “make-work.”

I could insert a bunch of quotes from Fight Club (a great book, by the way). But Fight Club’s theme is based on nihilism, which is for quitters and pussies. You’re mad at the world, are you? Since when does that make you tough? Every whiner and pussy throughout the history of time has been pissed off at the world.

Instead of going Fight Club and breaking shit, you need to build something. As a man, to remain sane you need a long-term, ongoing project that can be steadily improved.

This project can be anything. My projects have always been my body, my blogs, and a dog.

I was a fat kid with asthma growing up. I then got my black belt, boxed in a ring, and beat up pretty much everyone who looked at me sideways. I went from a bullied kid to someone that couldn’t even get local fights. By the time I was a freshman in high school, even seniors didn’t want to fuck with me. I could only get into fight when I went out of town, where no one knew my reputation.

Later in life, due to extreme injuries, I was unable to exercise. I got fat. Fixing my body was my project. I lost 80 pounds of fat. Then I started gaining muscle. This project is ongoing. I just started juicing, for example, in order to improve my vitality.

I’ll be in the gym when the next fucked-up thing happens to me. Tragedy is always around the corner. It’s just waiting to catch you slipping.

I’ve had a web presence since 1999, when I uploaded my articles on self-improvement to a Comcast server. (What I would do to find those articles….)

I’ve had blogs for about a decade. I start a blog, say what needs to be said, and move on. Progress often means saying goodbye.

I’ve also always trained a dog. People would always marvel at the tricks my dogs would perform. I could throw a tennis ball on the sidewalk. If it bounced into the road, my dog would stop, sit by the curb, and wait for me to retrieve the ball.

He would walk off leash on busy city sidewalks. Stop. Sit. Stay. He would wait for me to give him permission to continue walking.

“How can your dog do that!?” My answer was like every answer I give at this blog, “Consistent hard work over a long period of time.” No one seemed interested in the logistics of dog training after hearing that answer.

Your projects may be different. Maybe it’s writing a shitty novel. Or rebuilding the car you when you were 16 but couldn’t afford. Or going after that girl you always wanted.

Your projects may be different, but you must have at least one. The project should be something that will last a long time.

The project should be something you can improve upon. You can always lift more weight, or lose a little more fat, or gain a little muscle, or decrease your resting heart rate, or dig deeper into yourself to write with honesty and without fear. You can always teach a dog – even an old one – a new trick.

You can build a business. You can work 100 hours a week building an empire. You can start a side hustle for some extra cash while working a corporate job.

You can work on building a lasting, trusting relationship with a loving woman.

OK, I kid.

Whatever the case, remaining sane in a fucked-up world requires you to create something. If you are not building something, then you are not a man.

What you build is up to you. But you have to get started…

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It’s 2:30 p.m. my time. I’m going to start making my first meal.

It’ll be beet juice – one beet w/greens, two lemons, and three or four carrots. Thrown in 5-10 grams of BCAAs and 5 grams of creatine. BCAAs are overhyped as giving a guy huge gains. That’s not exactly true.

What BCAAs do is help you recover a little bit faster. At my age, less DOMS and quicker recovery might mean an extra 20-30 workouts a year. When you have to really grind for gains, those extra workouts make a cumulative difference. BCAAs help with recovery. Big time.

Then train.

Then a protein shake with bananas blended with kale and some coconut water.

Then 2 or so “whatever meals.” Maybe salmon with kale chips and dark chocolate. Maybe a rotisserie chicken with the skin removed. Maybe 5 eggs cooked in coconut oil with fresh-made (by me) guacamole. Maybe I’ll take some sushi-grade ahi and make a nice poke. Beats me.

I eat a lot and prefer preparing my own food. I don’t really like going out in public and only do so to meet up with friends.

It’d also be really expensive to eat out the way I eat. I regularly eat 8-10 ounces of wild Alaskan salmon. Even at Costco prices, that’s $8. To get that much at restaurant prices would cost you around $22. Sushi-grade Ahi is expensive as fuck but a few ounces go a long way.

Plus you really can’t get kale chips at restaurants. I either bake my kale chips at 350 degrees (after coating them with coconut oil and nutritional yeast) or use my dehydrator.

If you guys cook for yourselves, leave a comment. I’ll do a post on recipes if the demand is there.

My last meal will be around 10 p.m.

So I usually eat for 6-10 hours and fast for 14-18.

A couple of days a week I do a modified juice fast. I only drink juices (with protein powder) during the day, again during the same feeding window. Then I’ll have one large meal for dinner.

I don’t count calories or keep track of protein intake. I get in around 2,500-3,000 calories, which keeps me lean enough while allowing me to make steady, consistent gains in the gym.

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A lot of guys want to eat healthier but don’t know how to start. Well, here you go (and note the shout out to lemons):

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Skinny guys are quick to tell me that they can’t gain weight. “I eat and eat and can’t gain muscle.” Ask yourself who hardgainers really sound like.

What other group of people claim that the law of thermodynamics do not apply to them?

Skinny guys who say they can’t gain weight are no different from fat people who say they can’t lose weight. “I don’t even eat much! How can I be so fat?!”

Do you know how fat people lose weight? They eat less than they want to, nearly every meal, and nearly every day of the week. There are occasional cheat meals and cheat days. But fat people, in order to lose fat, have to eat less than they would prefer to.

How does a skinny guy gain weight? He eats more than he wants to, nearly every meal and every day of the week. There are occasional days when the skinny guy skips a meal or doesn’t eat much all day. But skinny guys, in order to gain weight, have to consistently eat more than they prefer to.

It really is that simple.

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