John Cena Led Me Here: Chad’s Hair Transplant Journey

I am Chad and this is my patient journey. My name is Chad Demchek. I’m from Detroit, Michigan and I’m a personal trainer and married and I got two dogs that I love.

So I’m a big dog person and I’m a big Marvel fan. I notice most of my hair loss when I get my hair cut because my hairdresser slicks my hair all the way back and you can just start really seeing the receding happening on each side. So I get like this blush moment in my face, you know, kind of like, oh man, like this is this is getting worse.

And so that’s kind of like where it kind of hit me like, oh man, I got to do something. I do some acting and some commercial modeling work and my hair I can notice it in photos and it was just kind of like oh it’s getting worse and worse each year. It felt like it was getting worse and worse and more noticeable where I was trying to comb my hair a certain way to cover the areas that were receding and then also just my hair would just kind of fall down in front of my head and it was just kind of getting like less density in front.

So that’s why I started to panic a little bit more. So it was a gradual panic over time. I was just sick and tired of being sick and tired of my hair.

And so I was always complaining in the mirror and just getting frustrated. So, I think that was probably just like last year just looking in the mirror being like, "All right, I got to do something about this. Where am I going to go do this?" That was my question.

Where am I going to find a quality place that knows what they’re doing that I can trust it? I don’t really want to go Turkey, you know, or You know, even though these clinics seem very upscale, you never know if you’re getting the doctor. I wanted the doctor to actually be doing the head hair transplant.

I didn’t want just technicians doing it and get a botched hair transplant. So, just testimonials, making sure that the doctor was doing it. Make sure that they’re thorough with, you know, and yeah, just reputation really at the end of the day.

That’s what that’s what I was looking for. I saw John Cena on a random reel talking about, you know, Dr. going to Dr. Anderson and getting a hair transplant. I was like, John Cena is coming here.

It must be good. So, I Google, you know, Anderson. And I was like, "Wow, okay.

I I should probably I should do this." I think it’s becoming less taboo. I think maybe like if he’s talked about it 10 years ago, you know, people would probably give you more, you know, I just felt that it’s important to feel good. You know, I work out.

I exercise as a personal trainer. Biologically, I feel like I’m healthy, you know. And but I want to feel I feel like I’m good biologically.

I want to look better physically. And I think it’s not nec I guess that’s not I don’t know. It’s not vain.

It’s just, you know, it’s okay to want to look better. I don’t think there’s anything there’s no issues. Just like, you know, somebody likes to look good going out and the night out of the town in their, you know, dress or their business meeting in their suit, you know.

I just think yeah, if you want to do it, do it. I think just being able you wake up in the mirror each morning and you look at yourself and it’s going to be nice to see that I look a little younger. I feel a little bit more confident in how how my, you know, hair looks.

And I think that’s going to be the most exciting factor, you know, just for myself. And I think also acting jobs. I’m not a big time John Cena actor, but I do like some commercials, like some smaller stuff, you know, and you know, once you start your you start getting it, it affects auditions when your hair is receding and it’s not receding crazy, but you know, I still feel like, okay, like if I do a Merced like, yeah, we need a MercedesBenz driver.

You’re gonna be in the MercedesBenz commercial or we want you to audition. And I’m like, okay, well, if you look at most of the guys in Merced, they have a good hairline. If you guys say, you know, they they’re very picky when it comes to that kind of stuff.

You know, they’re, you know, they’re very judgy. Of course, it’s the it’s the industry. So, and then the part they’re looking for.

So, I understand that completely. But I think I’d book more jobs so I could, you know, make more income, just more confidence and I just won’t have to look in the mirror every day and complain to my wife, you know, oh, this stupid hair, you know, like I can’t can’t stand this, you know? You know, she’s sick of me saying stuff, you know.

I think that’s the big thing. I would just say I would just say do it. Life’s short.

You know, invest in yourself.