Biohacking Pioneer Dave Asprey Restores Natural Hairline with 10,000 Hair Transplant

Dave (00:00) I'm really happy that I worked with Bauman Medical. They put the hair where it should be. These hairs that they transplanted aren't going to fall out. The rest of my hairs are staying in. So that's what I wanted, and that's what I got. And I have a very natural-looking hairline. I looked at doing some international options, and they didn't look particularly safe, and they didn't look very sustainable. And people don't get good results that way. Hey, I'm Dave Asprey, and I'm the guy who created the biohacking movement. You probably know me from putting butter in coffee, written nine books, half of them New York Times bestsellers, and I run Upgrade Labs and Danger Coffee. I've always had pretty good hair. And then I did a experiment by switching to testosterone pellets to keep my hormone levels healthy. And that raised my testosterone so much that in 2 months I lost an inch of hairline and it didn't grow back. And I didn't like that. then I discovered there was some missing on the top. So I said, "how do I move some hairs to where I want them to grow?" And after a lot of research, I found Dr. Bauman, who is the best in the country as far as I can tell. so I went in to move 10,000 hairs from the sides to the front. So it's back the way it was. Dr. Bauman has an incredible reputation for the work that he does, and he develops his own procedures and uses cutting-edge Technologies like red light therapy, lasers, and the right type of follicle extraction. So after a lot of diligence work, I went with them I went out to see Dr. Bauman, and they did this incredible hair analysis and scalp treatments. and then went in, and it took a couple days, actually, and there were 3 people working just moving each hair one at a time. So I have a perfectly natural hairline and it wasn't particularly painful because my head was numb the whole time. the entire visit was pretty easy. I mean, I could be on my phone and I was some of the time, where I was talking to people and just having, basically, hair artisans put my hair where I wanted it to be. the team at Bauman Medical was really professional, and really accommodating. So I literally just had to sit there and they did the work. Anytime it hurt, they'd add more lidocaine, and I was able to just, recover easily and, really, sit there and get some work done. So it wasn't like I had 3 days of downtime. it was definitely a lot of time, but it wasn't a lot of Non-productive time, and it wasn't a lot of pain. It was one of those things where, 'great This is cool.' and I left and for a little while afterwards I wore a hat. So it was pretty easy. the first thing I noticed when the results started to develop was all the places where the hair was, it just started coming in. And within a month or two, I had long enough hair that I didn't really need to have anymore, and it just kept growing and growing. And I've kept those hairs, and they work just fine. Well, I am a leader in the longevity movement, and having my hair fall out didn't work very well for me. So I was very public about the fact that, yeah, I moved some hairs around on my head, and that's one of many, many different ways we can control our biology. So it just made me look more like myself. Today I've seen dr. Bauman multiple times when he comes to the biohacking conference I run every year called beyond biohacking. He comes in and we recently did some custom stem cells that were grown specifically for me, and he always puts growth factors in which I think has really helped. and then I do the Bauman turbo laser cap Which is a laser cap not an LED cap, and I do that before I go to bed - some nights, not all nights. And then I use a bunch of hair nutrients topically from Dr. Bauman as well as minoxidil as a topical only. And it seems to work really well. I've got nice, thick, functional hair. It's kind of cool. I believe that you get to choose how you look, you get to choose how you feel, you just have to how to do it. So I wanted to look like someone who didn't try testosterone that caused my hair to fall out all at once, because I did it wrong. The Bauman Turbo Laser Cap is the most powerful hair growth technology that I've seen that isn't something you apply directly to the skin. and someone close to me was using it regularly. And her hairdresser finally just said, "I don't know what you did, but could you just cut off the scraggly stuff? Because you have 3x more hair at the root than we do at the end," because the hair got so much thicker. So I would say it really works. hair restoration is not a simple task. The quality and expertise of the person who does it really, really matters. So you want someone who's going to make you look natural. Someone who's going to actually keep the hair follicles alive, select the right ones and plant them in the right places. So it's part art and part medical science. And I think that's the biggest variable - is what do you do right afterwards? What kind of guidance do you have from the medical team? and just did they do a good job and use the right way of getting the hairs. And Dr. Bauman's the best.