Everyone gets old, and an evident sign of this for men is a progressive hair loss that many try to solve using products or with hair transplants - an increasingly popular method, especially in soccer. One of those men who presumably resorted to this method is the football player, David Beckham.

During his career, the athlete is known for his fondness in wearing all kinds of hairstyles, from braids to long manes, dyed, buns, and crests. But two years after his rumored hair transplant to save his golden locks, David Beckham's hair was noticeably thinning in photographs of him during a trip in Cotswolds.

As male pattern baldness is common in more than 50% of all men over the age of 50, various techniques were also developed by experts. Recently, Japanese scientists have discovered a new technology that solves this hair loss problem among men.

David Beckham's Case of Missing Hair

According to MailOnline, the 45-year-old who is in lockdown at his country home went out without one of his signature hats, with his thinning hair hard to miss. He has rarely been seen in the past few weeks without one of those hats that cover his hair, and only post snaps in baseball caps and bandanas to disguise his locks.

In October 2019, David was sporting a noticeably fuller head of hair styled in a quaff for his ad for the whiskey brand Haig Club. While during the June Women's World Cup and 2019 Wimbledon tournament in July, Beckham was also looking confident with his perfectly groomed long locks.

Back in 2018, he was rumored to have undergone a hair transplant procedure, but Beckham himself once said that he would not be tempted to go through such a costly process, although he sees nothing wrong about the procedure.

Craig Henton, hair restoration expert, and owner of Cheshire's MHR Clinic said that he is not convinced that the football star has had a hair transplant because the photos from last year show a fast reversal of hair growth, which is not typical for someone who has had a hair transplant.

Instead, he thinks that David has paused a medical hair program - involving medications and laser treatment - which led to his thinning hair right now, but it should be back once recommenced the therapy.

Japanese Scientists Discovered a New Way of Reversing Baldness

Whether Beckham has undergone hair treatment or not, male baldness pattern is still a problem in men. Various solutions have been developed to solve this problem, and now, Japan's new technology seems to have a promising solution for that problem.

According to Express, scientists from Tokyo Medical University Hospital in Japan have pioneered a new method in reversing baldness through transplanting a patient's own hair cells directly into the scalp to stimulate hair growth.

Ryoji Tsuboi, lead scientist, and his team tested the new method in 5 men and 15 women between the ages of 33 and 64 and found an average of 8% more hair density on the areas of the scalp that received the transplants.

Typical hair transplants take hair that a person has and transfer it to an area that does not have any hair. However, the new procedure developed by the Japanese involves taking small samples of dermal sheath cup cells from hair follicles on the back of a subject's head. These cells were treated and grown to greater quantities inside a laboratory before it is injected to the top of the scalp.

They observed the test subjects every few months and found that between the sixth and ninth month, the hair seemed to be more active. However, it slowed again after nine months. They also noted that the treatment appears to be more effective with older subjects.