Don’t Be Concerned. Male Hair Loss Is Not Inevitable.

Oct 03 2009

Posted by Peter Albertson as Female Hair Loss

by Peter Albertson

I’m glad to be the bearer of good news if you’re a man. Hair loss is not inevitable. Over recent years the reasons for male pattern baldness have been established by science and there are now some outstanding baldness treatments approved by the FDA. But remember if you’re a man, hair loss can be treated but baldness cannot be treated.

Male pattern baldness is very common in men. For men around the ages of 20 to 45, 95% of thinning hair problems are the result of male pattern baldness. Pattern baldness in men has a technical name of androgenic alopecia and is inherited from members of your family who came before you.

The fact that male hair loss was genetic has been known for a long time however it has not been understood clearly the actual mechanism that causes the hair loss. This si the reason an effective hair loss treatment has not been produced until relatively recently. It was only when the exact mechanism behind male pattern baldness was understood that it was possible to produce a baldness treatment.

The mechanism behind male hair loss which is now understood is this. Those who are genetically predisposed have the male hormone testosterone converted in their bodies into a 2nd hormone called Dihydrotestosterone, or DHT, by enzyme called 5-alpha reductase. It is the DHT that causes the hair loss.

The DHT sticks to the base of hair follicles and, in effect, strangles the hair follicles by limiting the ability of the follicles to take up essential hair nutrients. Because the hair follicles cannot take up sufficient nutrients they thinning and die and there is insufficient reproduction of the hair follicles to replace the dead hair.

Every person loses hair every day. On average person loses around 10,000 hairs each day but these are normally replaced. For those affected by DHT around the hair follicles, more hair will fall out and less will grow. The result is a slow thinning of their hair and an eventual bald spot.

Once the mechanism by which this occurred was fully known it was impossible to produce a treatment. One treatment alone has been approved by the FDA has a DHT treatment and it goes by the name of minoxidil. Minoxidil is available under a range of product names. However not all minoxidil products work the same.

I mentioned the importance of nutrients to the health of hair follicles and the fact that DHT blocks most of the nutrients from getting into the hair follicle. Minoxidil stops DHT from blocking the entry of the nutrients however if there are not sufficient optimum hair nutrients available is not a sufficient treatment.

The best hair loss treatment makes use of minoxidil to block the operation DHT the same time it supplies the whole range of essential hair nutrients by means of oral supplementation. This two sword approach works much more effectively than simply taking minoxidil on its own.

Remember if you’re a man hair loss can be reversed however you cannot grow hair on a head that is already bald. The best hair loss treatments work well but you need to act fast.

To find out which hair loss treatment combines the use of minoxidil and hair nutrients to work more successfully than others visit my website.

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