Good Health
Answers to your questions about sex, hair, weight loss, and more-from Hims.
Hair
The Early Signs of Balding and How to Stop Them
One of the keys to stopping hair loss is noticing the signs of baldness and taking action as early as possible.
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Skin
How to Get Rid of a Cold Sore Quickly
Luckily, cold sores are fairly easy to control. Most of the time, they’ll heal on their own in seven to 14 days. However, if you’d like to get rid of a cold sore faster than this, there are a variety of tools you can use to speed up the healing process.
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Skin
Tretinoin 101: How it Works, Uses, Side Effects & More
Available as a topical cream, gel or liquid, tretinoin is a retinoid medication that’s widely used to treat acne and reverse many of the visual signs of aging. Tretinoin is also commonly known as ATRA, or all-transretinoic acid.
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Sex
Do You Really Need Erectile Dysfunction Drugs?
The following is informational only and does not constitute medical advice. Always talk to your doctor about the risks and benefits of any treatment. Erectile dysfunction is a problem that has always existed but only since the 1990s has come to the forefront of health education. Since then, numerous medications ...
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Hair
Scalp Reduction Surgery: How it Works and Alternatives
Today, a variety of treatments are available to treat male pattern baldness, from convenient medications like finasteride and minoxidil to highly effective surgical treatments such as hair transplant surgery. However, many of these treatments weren’t available until the last 20 years. Before this, men with hair loss relied on a ...
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Skin
How to Take Care of Sun Damaged Skin
As much as we love the sun, the sun has mixed feelings about us. Sure, it warms us and helps grow our food, but spend too much time basking in her glory, and she’ll repay you with burns, blisters, aging skin, and cancer. Sun damage can happen in less than an hour, particularly for folks with the fairest skin. But even if you’re cautious and avoid burns, the cumulative effects of sun damage can be lasting.
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Sex
What Are the Treatment Options for Erectile Dysfunction
Erectile dysfunction has many potential causes, but most of them are treatable. Psychological causes for ED can be treated with psychotherapy and various non-medical treatments while physical causes for ED can be treated with drugs, surgery, or medical devices.
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Sex
What Should You Do if ED Drugs Don’t Work?
The little blue pill known as Viagra (generic name sildenafil) was first developed in 1989 as a treatment for high blood pressure and angina. After discovering the drug’s benefits for increasing erections in the early 1990s, scientists rebranded the drug as a treatment for erectile dysfunction. Once the drug was ...
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Lifestyle
How to Make a Great First Impression in Any Situation
It may not matter if you smile more, get a better haircut, go on a diet or start wearing the right clothes. If your first impression leaves the wrong impression, you’ll face a mountain-sized uphill battle to change minds and win hearts.
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Sex
Dissecting Diet, Erectile Dysfunction and Infertility
The following is informational only and does not constitute medical advice. Always talk to your doctor about the risks and benefits of any treatment. There is a great deal of misinformation out there regarding infertility and erectile dysfunction. For example, erectile dysfunction is not just a problem of middle-aged men ...
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