What Options Do You Have When Looking For Products For Thinning Hair?
Up to half of all men and a quarter of all women will suffer from some form of balding during their life. Some people consider baldness in men to be fashionable but no one considers female baldness to be fashionable. So the market for thinning hair products is massive and there are plenty looking for the best product for thinning hair. Lets consider the options you have when searching for products for thinning hair.
First of all let’s consider the causes of hair loss. But first let’s talk about the causes of thinning hair. Whilst there is a wide range of causes in both men and women the overwhelming cause, estimated for men to be responsible for up to 95 percent of all hairloss, is pattern baldness. This is a condition inherited from previous members of your family which genetically predisposes you to some degree of balding. There is men’s pattern baldness and women’s pattern baldness and the results for different individuals vary wildly but the method by which it operates is the same for all. A hormone called DHT slowly limits the capacity of hair follicles to take up essential hair nutrients thereby resulting in the hair thinning and weakening and eventually dying.
The market for thinning hair treatments is enormous and like all these things where there is a market there will be a product, or lots of products. If you get on the internet and search for a product for thinning hair you’ll find any number of lotions and potions and ointments and creams and shampoos and conditioners and vitamins and minerals all designed to be a thinning hair treatment. But sadly the most likely result you will get from using these products is to empty your wallet.
In fact FDA approved balding treatments are very limited, in fact there is only 2. One is finasteride which normally goes by the name of Propecia. The second is minoxidil which is found in a range of products. Both finasteride and minoxidil are approved for use in men as a baldness treatment but it is only minoxidil that has been approved for women as the use of finasteride by women can have some serious side-effects.
Neither of these products was designed as a hair loss product, finasteride was originally intended to treat the prostate and minoxidil to treat high blood pressure. But in both cases studies show that subjects who used to product exhibited an increase in growth of their hair and so further studies were done on use of the product as a balding treatment. In each case positive results were observed.
There’s many products to choose from if you’re in need of a good thinning hair treatment. But other than the 2 mentioned above no other products are FDA approved as a balding treatment. You’re welcome to try them but you do so at your own risk.
It is also true to say that neither of the 2 approved products mentioned work for everybody. Equally the degree of hair regrowth you experience may differ from that experienced by another user. And equally you should be aware that observable results, even when using either of the 2 approved products, may take quite some time to appear and you should be prepared to use either of them for a minimum of 6 months and preferably 12 months before you decide if they are working for you. But both these thinning hair treatments work.
Ultimately the method by which hair is lost in cases of pattern baldness is that the hair is deprived of essential nutrients because a particular hormone, DHT, causes this. It is thought that the way minoxidil increases hair regrowth is by increasing supply of blood to the hair follicle thereby improving its ability to uptake nutrients. One innovative company has combined the use of minoxidil with a range of essential hair nutrients that are made available to the hair follicle so that when the minoxidil allows the follicle to increase its uptake of nutrients all those nutrients are available.
This approach makes sense and would seem to be more effective than simply using minoxidil by itself. It certainly makes sense that if lack of nutrients results in poor hair growth a supply of essential nutrients, when combined with minoxidil, will increase the likelihood of successful regrowth.
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