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It is estimated that around half of all men and a quarter of all women will experience some problem with baldness at some stage in their life. Whilst for men baldness can sometimes be fashionable it is certainly not fashionable for women, and it’s probably true to say that men who suffer from it generally do not consider it fashionable. So the market for thinning hair products is massive and there are plenty looking for the best product for thinning hair. Let’s examine the ins and outs of hair loss treatments.

First of all let’s consider the causes of hair loss. But first let’s talk about the causes of thinning hair. It is thought that the vast majority of men and women, up to 95 percent, have an inherited condition called pattern baldness. You inherit pattern baldness from previous members of your family and it means that you are predisposed genetically to some degree of baldness. There is both male pattern baldness and female pattern baldness and whilst the effect on men and women from this condition can be slightly different the method by which it causes the balding is the same. 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.

There is a massive market for products or thinning hair and of course where there is a big market there will be plenty of products. If you search Google for a product for thinning hair you’ll find a huge number of conditioners, shampoos, lotions, potions, vitamins minerals all promoted as thinning hair products. But sadly the most likely result you will get from using these products is to empty your wallet.

The reality is that there is only 2 products for thinning hair that are approved by the FDA for use as a balding treatment. The first is finasteride, marketed as Propecia, which is a prescription only balding treatment. Minoxidil is the second and is found under a range of different names. Both minoxidil and finasteride are approved for use as a balding treatment for men however it is only minoxidil that is FDA approved as a balding treatment to women because studies have shown that the use of finasteride by women can have unpleasant side effects.

Both these products were originally intended to treat other conditions, finasteride to treat prostate related conditions 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 of these thinning hair treatments are effective.

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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