Every single person wants to look as the best version of themselves. For men, their appearance is mostly enhanced by their beard. Beard has always maintained it’s spot as the stylish manliest accessory.
Having a patchy beard may sometimes trouble your confidence regarding your appearance. Though it is quite a common problem but some men have tough time accepting it. So, why take any chance let’s start with building few blocks of knowledge regarding what can be done for the patchy beard.
Causes of Patchy beard
Let’s go through some of the causes of sparse beard.
- Genetic factors
As we all know, Genetics have a great part in the beard growth. Genes from both the sides of parents affect your beard growth. If most men in your have a thick full beard, then you are most likely to have it too. But if not, you will be dealing with the same problem as there’s.
- Unresponsive Androgen Receptors
Testosterone are the hormones which help in our beard growth. The high and low levels of this hormone decides the hair growth of the beard. In some cases, testosterone and DHT (dihydrotestosterone) is high, but still the beard is patchy and sparse. This is likely caused by poor sensitivity in the androgen receptors within the facial hair follicle cells.
- Poor circulation in cheeks
The cheeks have weaker circulation as compared to the mouth and chin. This serves as the reason how it is easier to grow moustache and goatee, but seems impossible to fill the upper cheeks.
- Lifestyle
Your lifestyle has a great impact on your beard. Deficiency in vitamins and minerals, having a poor quality of sleep, low sleep duration, excessive stress, and low-calorie fitness-bunny diets are all known of collapsing your natural hormone production.
- Medical Conditions
In some rare cases, patchiness in beard is caused by few medical conditions like Alopecia Barbae and Alopecia Areata. This causes round coin-shaped bald spots in the beard area.
Ways to filling patchy beard
Give time to grow
To get an idea on how patchy your beard is, first you need to let it grow. Let it roughly grow for around 2 months. The basic reason behind it is that most beard looks extremely patchy in the first weeks and months of growth. So, grow it more 2 months and then trim it off to the same length to get the exact idea of where you are starting from. Maybe possible that your beard was really not patchy at all.
Consume food that reduces patchiness
As high levels of testosterone and dihydrotestosterone are needed for beard growth. There are certain food items which are rich in these hormones include-
- Sorghum – an ancient grain which has been shown in one study to increase the levels of an enzyme that produces DHT by 54%.
- Oysters – rich in zinc and selenium, two of the most important minerals for maintaining the beard growth hormones.
- Olive oil – in a study of Moroccan men, using olive oil as the main fat source for 2-weeks increased testosterone by 17%.
- Pomegranate juice – shown to increase the beard growth hormone; testosterone by 24%. Good for circulation too (which helps with patchy cheeks).
- Alfalfa sprouts – a study of men eating alfalfa sprouts showed significantly increased free-testosterone and DHT levels. Broccoli also had a small effect.
- Coffee – rich in antioxidants and magnesium, but more importantly it might raise testosterone and DHT levels, quite significantly even.
- Micro needling
This claims to stimulates beard growth and helps activate dormant follicles, which results in less patchy thicker facial hair. Puncturing the face is said to prompt the body into a healing response, which in turn will help the area receive an increased flux of fresh blood filled with nutrients and hormones, enhanced collagen production, and more.
- Dye your patchy beard
Some of the healthy common sense and quick beard filling solution could be to just dye your beard a shade or two darker. Another benefit from coloring your beard is that the non-pigmented light vellus hairs will also catch the color, which will make it look less patchy and more dense. However, if you don’t have any experience then better not buy jet black beard dye and think you can fill the patchiness in your beard, rather it would only result in unnatural looking beard and stained skin.
Conclusion
You can fill your patchy beard naturally and there are number of proof for that. It may be difficult but never impossible for you to grow the beard. So, follow the ways mentioned to get the beard of your dreams.