Dr. Anderson’s SPICY Challenge — Can he survive all 5 sauces?

Oh my god. Hot. Oh my god.

No. So now it’s painful. Hi, I’m Dr. Ken Anderson here at the Anderson Center for Hair. So my staff found out that I’ve never seen hot ones.

So they decided it would be a good idea for a what we’re going to call a spicy challenge. I didn’t pick these out. I’m at the mercy of my staff here.

Got some chicken nuggets in each one of them. I’m going to eat these things and then we’re going to ask me some questions. You are watching Hair on Demand TV.

All right. So, it goes from less to high in terms of spiciness. Okay.

So, here we go. You can describe them to us. Taste.

Well, Okay. Oh, shut up. That’s the least spicy.

Yes. If you weren’t a doctor, what would you be doing instead? Oh, what would I do?

Well, I I wish I was a professional ice hockey player. That would be a dream, but I probably wouldn’t be that now. At this point, if I wasn’t a doctor and I was a professional ice hockey player, I’d probably be retired.

Probably. If you had to describe your aesthetic approach to hair in three words, what would that be? Oh, I would say holistic, artistic, and precise.

It’s awesome. I It’s doing Hair transplants is like creating works of art like every day. It’s It’s almost not like work.

Okay. More spicy. This is level five.

Level out of how many? 10. All right.

Here we go. All right. Saw that I can already tell.

I just felt the pores on my forehead opening up. What’s a common myth about hair transplants that drives you nuts? So many patients come in and they they they think, "Okay, I’m getting a hair transplant, right?

I’m gonna get it. I’m gonna I’m gonna undergo the procedure. It’s a big deal to them.

They’re gonna spend the day here. They’re gonna spend the money. They’re going to they’re going to do it.

And they’re under the impression that’s that one has an extra delayed hit. They’re under the impression that the hair transplant’s going to they’re going to walk out of here free from having to worry about hair loss ever again. They’re just going to go back to a state where they had no hair loss and it’s never going to be a worry.

And some are you know a little surprised even crestfallen to find out that no the reality is that hair transplant doesn’t stop hair loss at all. It’s hair loss continues and you got to continue to address it try to prevent it just the same way as if you know you had a cavity filled. You still got to brush and floss.

I have a feeling the last one I’m going to feel my toes. Jump on there. All right.

Three. Yep. This is this is level six.

Level six. Yeah, I’m still feeling that. Oh, that’s right.

All right. Mhm. Ours doesn’t taste good.

Okay. There’s no limit to the number of hair transplants you can have. True or false?

Oh man. No, I’m feeling it in the hairs on my legs now. No, I’m not kidding.

Oh boy. There’s no That’s false. My god, that’s spicy.

Yeah, there’s a limited number of follicles that one can transplant over the course of one’s life, right? On average, a man has about maybe anywhere from depending on the size of their head and the density in the donor area, 8 to 12,000 follicles total. Now, consider that one is born with about 50 55,000 follicles on the scalp.

That’s only, you know, pushing 20%. And so, this comes into play when patients come in with they’ve lost 80% of their hair on their they’re like, I would like a full head of hair. And I’m like, that’s medically impossible.

So that’s just a reason why prevention is so important, right? Because there’s a limited donor supply. Man, my tongue is not liking me right now.

Next one. All right. All right.

This is level eight, I’m assuming. Seven. Yeah.

All right. No, I’m trying to get all the people That’s one. That one tastes like the color green.

With the color green. Mhm. What does that mean?

Oh my. Oh my. Dr. Anderson, if hair coms possible tomorrow, would you be all in?

And what would that mean for the industry? Okay, now I’m impaired. This isn’t Damn.

Hair cloning. If it became available, would I be all in? Well, there are, you know, geez, there are so many variables.

I actually did a I actually did a fellowship in tissue engineering back at the University of Michigan and it was introduced to cell culture a cell oh my god and we we cloned cartilage and and that’s just a one- cellled organism or or what do you call it one cell tissue hot now so that’s painful with a hair follicle there are so many different types of cells so the safety would be my main concern Wow. Okay, that that one hurt. This one hurts.

That one hurts. Do you have some tissues? How do you break the news to somebody that they are not a good candidate for surgery?

Bedside manner is important. So, you know, they told us in medical school, literally, never cry in front of patients because if you’re cry, if the doctor’s crying, something’s this. If the doctor himself or herself is crying, things are not good.

Oh my goodness. This is intense. Yeah.

That’s, you know, it’s a tough time because often times I’m the last stop on the train, right? They’ve talked to their family about it, their brothers, their hairdresser about it. Most people at first ask their hairdresser, then maybe they’ve talked to their dermatologist.

And a lot of times the dermatologist be like, "You better go see Dr. Anderson." We get a lot of referrals from dermatologists. And it’s about, you know, being empathetic, but not sympathetic, right? There’s a there’s a difference.

So, and you want to be yeah empathetic about it. But not you don’t want to start crying like I’m crying now. Last swing.

Oh, my hands are shaking. That’s all right. Level nine.

Bring it. Oh, wow. It tastes like knives.

So, I was describing earlier what the hottest meal I’d ever had. It was in New Orleans. It felt like it felt like glass on my roof, my mouth, and tongue.

And that’s where we’re at right now. What advice would you give your 30-year-old self about your own hair loss? I’ve been dealing with hair loss for well over 20 years, right?

And if I hadn’t been walking the walk that I talk about the prevention, the topical medications, the laser cap and the PRPs and now PRFs, I would have dramatically less hair. And so, I’m living proof of that. And I think in the next year or three, I’m going to myself need a hair transplant.

Of course, I’m going to go to Dr. Wetzel and trust my amazing team of technicians and staff, and I’ll be having it right here. And I bet I bet we’ll be filming that at some point. But I do feel it in my toes.

That’s Yeah, it’s like a full body experience, right? So much saliva. What’s one thing you wish everyone understood about hair loss in 30 seconds or less?

It’s not a personal shortcoming. It’s just a fact of genetics. It can be controlled, you know.

And there’s really never been a better time to have hair loss. We got all this stuff. When I started in 2003 was just ro gain faster and a handshake and now we’ve got laser caps and regenerative medicine but I would say once you notice it get on prevention get on it and stay on it like I always say and consider surgery as a last resort but you know but with a qualified surgeon who specializes exclusively in hair transplant surgery the results can be nothing less than life-changing.

No, my mouth is kind of weird. It’s it hurts. This has been Dr. Ken Anderson at the Anderson Center for Hair for a spicy challenge.

I I I think I passed. You are watching Hair on Demand TV. There’s a glass of milk here, but I told I told him I’m like, "No, I like spicy food." Oh, you might got this.