Male Pattern Baldness - Stemming The Tide Of Hair Loss

More than likely you have hopefully entertained the thought that you would live to a mature old age and still have a full head of hair

. Sadly, as you gazed in the mirror and into your hair brush you began to recognize that life has a different fate for you and your hair. What is male pattern baldness? What causes it? How can I slow it down or prevent it altogether? This article will respond those questions and others.

First of all, when it comes to male pattern baldness, you are definitely not alone. Every man, to some degree or another, is going to experience some hair loss by the time they reach their mid-60's. Sorry guys, but that is just the way it is. For those of us who have had generations of bald-headed wonders in their family tree, you can most likely guess what the future holds for you. Particularly if you see it on your mother's side of the family. So genetic predisposition is a huge factor in male pattern baldness.

The hormonal culprit is testosterone. When head of young, you have a ton of testosterone running through your system and this hormone can have an effect on your hair follicles. Without having to have a degree in body chemistry, it basically goes something like this: when testosterone meets up with an enzyme referred to as 5-alpha reductase it changes into dihydrotestosterone, which fortunately has been reduced and labeled in much easier terminology as DHT. It is the DHT that gets into the hair follicles and slows hair growth down or stops it all together. So with no new hair or very little new hair coming in, through time you start seeing an increasing amount of your scalp and less and less of your hair.

Many men just learn to put up with the inevitable and begin learning to like and even celebrate their hair loss. But there are some guys who actually do long for a full head of hair and would like to do something about it. So what are your alternatives?

Although they may be marketed under in a variety of brand names, the two main medications for male pattern baldness are finasteride and minoxidil. How do they work? Well, finasteride gets in there and stops your testosterone from changing into DHT, thus giving your hair follicles the chance to keep producing hair. You will be taking it in tablet form and it has a pretty good success rate: about 66% of men either eliminating hair loss or in some cases even reversing it. Like all medications, there are several drawbacks to finasteride. One is that it takes a heck of a long time for it to work. You won't observe much of anything for at least 4 months and to see any reversal of hair loss you may be looking at up to 2 years or more. Secondly, you got to keep taking it for as long as you want to keep your hair. If you stop, your hair will begin receding again. Lastly, if gets pretty expensive. Particularly if mane was making its slow exit down the drain.going to use it for the long haul.

Minoxidil is a little bit different in how it works. First of all it is a solution that you rub on your head. What's puzzling about this treatment is that nobody can adequately describe exactly why or how it works and there is also some strong disagreement on its effectiveness. A number of studies indicate that maybe 50% of users end up showing a halt to hair loss, with a pretty small percentage (15%) of men experiencing any reversal of hair loss. As with finasteride, minoxidil takes a long time to work and you have to use it all the time. It's not low-cost either, so keep your wallet handy.

If neither one of these treatments appeals to you, what exactly are the remaining choices that you have? First of all, you could embrace your dome and learn to live with it. You could look into getting a hair piece. Or you might want to go the direction of having one of those high-priced surgical hair replacement procedures. You can almost certainly see which one of these is the most cost effective alternative, but if you want to go down the hair restoration avenue, I would recommend starting with the finasteride or minoxidil and see what transpires. Now, if you happen to have a whole lot of money and price is not a factor, then by all means help yourself to the expensive hair pieces (for god's sake get a good one) or go the surgical route.

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