Up until the age of 23 (long before I realised skull expansion causes androgenetic alopecia) I was blissfully unaware of hair loss or the pain that it can cause. Despite many male members of my extended family suffering hair loss, I had no idea about what was in store for me just around the corner. So, I went through university and then embarked on my career just like anyone else.
I left university with a B.Sc. honours degree in civil engineering. I then joined the Royal Air Force (RAF) for pilot training. It was during this time that I first noticed my hair loss beginning to develop.
Learning to fly an aircraft is obviously a very demanding occupation, but the stress involved did not start my hair loss. Androgenetic alopecia was always going to affect me, just as it affects anyone else with the genetic tendency towards skull expansion.
However, it's probably true to say that the high pressure environment I was under might have increased my rate of hair loss.
When I left the RAF, I worked for the civil service (Crown Prosecution Service) for two years in London before deciding to return to university for teacher training.
After qualifying as a high school teacher of mathematics and working for a couple of years, I travelled the world.
When I came back to Britain a year later, I became a licensed tennis coach with the Lawn Tennis Association (LTA). In pursuing that career, I also gained diplomas in sports psychology and advanced nutrition.
As you can see, I've had quite a colorful career so far! A career that's largely focused on education. Even in my spare time I studied. I believe that if you analyze hard enough and dedicate yourself long enough, you can solve almost any problem. And that includes hair loss.
My hair loss began with a receding hairline. The rate of hair loss at my temples increased quickly and within a couple of years, had extended to thinning at the crown. Eventually this spread into thinning hair at the back of my head as well.
This picture was taken in 1991 (age 25) which was when my hair had only just started thinning at the crown. Although I tried very hard to cover up my receding temples, you can still see how quickly my hair had receded in just two years (see red arrow).
My hair loss continued for seven years in total (1989 to 1996). And it was getting relentlessly worse and worse throughout this time. Then I finally realised how to stop it.
I believe my qualifications and work experience gave me a unique perspective from which to view androgenetic alopecia.
All the studying that I did developed a very analytical approach to problem solving. That's how I discovered the skull expansion process: the continued growth of specific bones of the skull during adulthood that is the direct cause of androgenetic alopecia.
I was 30 when I finally discovered skull expansion. Very soon afterwards I started developing my techniques. I used them in a daily routine and kept experimenting with them, trying out new ideas.
Within three months of using them, my severe hair loss had virtually stopped. (So I knew I was on to something). Obviously I kept doing them, and very soon the rest of my hair started growing noticeably thicker too.
Within a year, my previously thinning hair had thickened up and was growing normally again. The recovery continued and I've managed to keep my hair ever since. Over the years, I've even had some noticeable regrowth in the temple region.
I should mention that this region of the scalp is very difficult to address: whilst my temple recession stopped and some new hair growth did follow, I still have some residual loss in this area.
These techniques have given me the healthy head of hair you can see in this picture. I'm extremely pleased with the results, and I'm in no doubt that, but for these techniques, I would have suffered severe hair loss many years ago.
Whilst I couldn't really accept androgenetic alopecia, I also felt uneasy about the prospect of drugs (minoxidil) or a transplant.
So, once hair loss hit me, I had to find a natural solution. I wish it hadn't taken me seven years to discover skull expansion, but at least I got there in the end!
Later on I decided to build this website so that other people could learn about skull expansion too. And I wrote the "Here Today, Hair Tomorrow" ebook to give them the opportunity to try the techniques that helped me.