India, Oct. 1 -- Drawing on more than 7 lakh consultations, the men's health platform's new index shows Indian men are confronting hair loss a decade earlier than the old stereotype suggests..

If you are a man in your 20s who has noticed more hair on your pillow, your comb or your shower drain than you used to, you are not alone.

That is the clearest takeaway from the Hairfall Index, launched by doctor-led men's health platform Man Matters to mark National Hair Day on October 1.

The index draws on 7,04,152 consultations for hair loss over the year to August 2026, from a platform that has supported over 10 lakh Indian men and now does more than 5,000 consultations a day.

And the man at the centre of that data is not the one popular ima...