Bald Man Burns Scalp, Accidentally Regrows ALL His Hair

In 1986, a 78-year old bald man fell asleep in his rocking chair, slipped, hit his head on his fireplace, and suffered full-thickness burns across his scalp.

Six months later, he baffled his physicians when he returned to the hospital for a checkup... with a full head of hair.

Who would have thought that an accidental burn to the scalp could inadvertently trigger hair follicle regeneration?

This single case report rewrote everything we had previously suspected about hair regrowth from androgenic alopecia. Contrary to the dogma repeated at the time, we learned that hair follicles don't die. We also learned that full hair regrowth is actually possible... even for people who have been bald for decades. And this discovery happened by accident, because of an accident.

In this video, we'll dive into this case study, discuss wound-healing pathways for hair regrowth, and reveal how anecdotes like this help pave new avenues of research into androgenic alopecia.

Fascinatingly, signaling proteins and growth factors recruited during wound-healing processes share significant overlap with pathways recruited for hair follicle proliferation. Now, it's up to researchers to identify these processes and find a way to consistently replicate these hair growth results... and without risking severe injury!

We're getting closer to answers. In the meantime, don't try this at home.

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0:00 – Intro (man burns scalp, regrows hair)
1:12 – DHT & androgenic alopecia: the evidence
3:39 – Eliminating DHT doesn't regrow all lost hair
4:45 – Bald hairs moved to mice regrow in a single hair cycle
5:30 – More cases of wounds causing hair regrowth
7:14 – Has this happened to anyone else?

[hhfp]

I lifted my arm to shield my eyes from an explosion. I made a full recovery without scaring. I did not pick up any shrapnel, and nothing was 'blown off'. I had no skin grafts. Over a few days the burned skin fell off. That included the entire top of my forearm. As bandages were changed I watched the skin on my arm regenerate from nothing. The first thing to happen was hair growth. It was amazing, little hairs emerged from nothing but redness like shoots from seeds in newly planted field. Then little circles of pink skin grew around the hairs. These grew and joined up. It is now just as it was before, a person can not tell the difference.

[tentimetex]

Could it perhaps be because in order to heal the wounded area, the body builds extra blood supply through vessels, thus feeding hair follicles?

[ifowl]

This actually makes perfect sense! I got an incredibly bad sunburn on my shoulder a couple years ago that left discoloration and marks for a long time. Ever since then, I've been growing hair in that area on my shoulder when it never grew there before at all. I believe trauma can cause hair to grow.

[HowieHudak]

Realize this video is a year old, but just saw and wanted to share that I had surgery on my rib cage where I had no hair, and after the surgery, the scar produced an amazing amount of thick hair.

[realpeekaboomaster]

here comes Hairgaurd with their Burncomb.

[kennethbeal]

Thank you! My dad dove into a too-shallow pool in his youth; fortunately, angled up and didn't hit his head, only scraped one side of his chest on the bottom. That side grew much more hair, as he developed later. So all my life, from that story, I've "known" the link between wounding and hair grown. Thank you for this confirmation!

[skye]

As a female I had an injury to my lower left leg a couple of years ago. And I like the smooth shaven look yet this spot always has more hair faster growth than any other part of either leg.

[Ryan-obgp]

Assuming deep wounding of a sufficient size is indeed a trigger for stem cells (or whatever) to trigger fresh new hair growth, I wonder how it is that the widespread trauma of a hair transplant doesn't have the same effect? Does a large patch need to be completely destroyed to the base in order for this to occur? So many questions.

[blachlee]

This guy appears to be wearing a hair helmet.

[hawk_]

I fell down on my back of my scalp at age 10, while trying to evade a horizontal rope held by my senior in school. He brought the horizontal rope down in time to catch my neck while im running causing me to fall back and had the back of my head hit the cement floor.
I got some good amount blood and had to admit in hospital where they simply put cotton around the injury area to stop bleeding.
Its been over 20 years now and still the injured area(1sq cm area) has been growing very thick hair compared to surrounding area on scalp, just above occipital area. The wound area has so thick and solid hair. I'm wondering researchers should focus more on wounding to cure baldness.

[anothercomment-]

This story about the burn leading to healing is exciting information - thx for sharing - I’d say it relates to micro needling - inspiring healing through damage

[GeorgeT]

That whole video and information it gave was very interesting....thanks...

[BA-viyk]

thank you SO MUCH for your continued efforts and giving me hope

[paweopalczewski]

I remember reading about this man in your book you published few years back. Your book was a revelation for me, I implemented most things from it and I stopped my hair loss and regrew most of my receding hairline. Thank you.

[wngkcee]

Great video 👍🏻

Around this time last year I had shingles. A scab/cut appeared because of this where my hair was receding . I now have alot of hair growth in this area

[bakkermaarten]

If sometime in the future an actual cure - not that finasteride or minoxidil pharmaceuticals- for MPB is found it will deserveedly be lauded as one of the greatest achievements in medical history. Many men, especially those with square heads, suffer in silence due to balding.

[ltpstan]

This reminds me of a situation that personally happened to me. Due to my itchy fingers, I've always liked to press out whiteheads on my upper arms. I noticed back then that the area which I've caused some damage by pinching and slight bruising sometimes caused some thicker hairs to grow. They are slightly larger in diameter then the rest of the arm.

[brettk]

Funny how accidents can end up helpful. Like guy who's glasses got shattered and went into his eyes. The doctors thought he would be blind but removed the shards of glass healed and had perfect vision!

[Realmusicvideo]

I recall reading many years ago of a bald man hit by lightning bolt. Afterwards, his entire scalp regrew hair.

[rodepperson]

I'm beginning to believe if you treat hair the way you do your grass/lawn it will grow....Micro needle is like plowing or aeration...And have you ever seen a lawn burned and how pretty it comes back?