Alright, so my significant other had a shaved head when we met, but has since decided to try to grow it out for the first time in many years.  It's been about a year now since he decided to stop shaving, and he is talking about shaving again becuase he is frustrated that his hair isn't growing like it did when he was younger!  I have grown used to his blonde locks and I told him that perhaps we can do somehting to stimulate his hair growth before he decides to shave it away again.

The problem is this:  His hair is growing at what seems like a normal rate on the back half of his head, but on the front half, I.E. his bangs and what not, are growing veeeeeery slowly.  In fact it is almost not growing at all.  He is getting worried that he is balding.  He's 28, and his father, at 50, is not bald, so I don't know if he is balding or not, but I doubt it.  He claims that when he was a teenager he had the opposite problem with his hair.  The back grew normal and the front and bangs grew like weeds!  

Anyone have any idea of what causes part of someone's hair to grow at a much slower rate than the rest?

I have heard of people taking vitamins to encourage hair growth, but I have never tested this.  We are pretty healthy people without taking daily vitamins.  He drinks a LOT of energy drinks though.  Maybe they affect hair! hehe.

Anyhow. what I want to know is, does anyone know of something you can take, or apply, that will help to re-stimulate hair growth?  I know there is no miracle cure.  Long hair takes time!  But is there anything at all that isn't chemical that could encourage my man's hair?

Lemmie know!

I've heard that the genes for MPB come mostly from a man's mother.  My husband's father never had thining hair, but his maternal grandfather did, and so has he.

Biotin is indeed something to look up.  Also stress on that part of his scalp might be an issue.

My short answer was going to be; let him!   Sorry I don't have any advice.  I don't know if it's just a "Danish thing" but most of the men around here who were blond as kids tend to thin earlier and more pronounced that the brunet men I know.  Hub's certainly that way.  His dad was a light brunet/very dark blond when younger and still has relatively thick hair but most of the men in the family were very fair haired, actually white haired as kids and those who had a whitish blond shade into their teens have been balding or thinning since some time in their mid-late 20s.  Sorry, it's not my intention to be discouraging. 

Your significant other's sounds like he has the same growth pattern as my husband who's now 40 but has since I met him at 29, had hair that was slightly thicker in the back than the top and front and I wouldn't consider his hair thick or full by any definition.  I still love the golden shade of his hair in summer but ultimately it doesn't matter.

Definitely be encouraging like others have said.

I looked up the toxicity of Biotin, and it says on the Wikipedia that even high doses show no adverse effects.  I understand it's hard to OD on B vitamins, because the excess just gets flushed out.

If you have a Trader Joe's, I get a chewable multi there that has 100% of my daily Biotin in it.  90 of them for something like $8.  I haven't looked at the non-chewable formula, but those are usually even better.