I would like to share with you some useful and interesting facts about hair loss in men. I have pulled these ten facts from various online and offline sources. These facts about male hair loss should not only help you gain a clear understanding of the condition, but may also provide some hope that an effective treatment exists for you.
I hope this helps!
10 interesting facts about hair loss in men:
- Androgenetic alopecia, more commonly known as male pattern baldness, is the most common form of hair loss in the world, affecting almost 50% of every man over the age of 50!
- The primary cause of male pattern baldness is a buildup of male sex hormones known as androgens. The most disgusting of these is dihydrotestosteroneor DHT.
- DHT adversely affects normal hair growth by clinging to your follicles and preventing them from absorbing proper nutrition from the scalp’s blood supply. Essentially DHT suffocates her to death!
- Initially, the effects of DHT buildup will manifest as thin patches on the crown and in the “widow’s peak” areas of the head. The hair will usually be very fine and begin to disappear.
- If androgenetic alopecia is left untreated for a long time, your hair follicles will continue to starve until they are no longer thin…they’re gone! This results in total baldness.
- If a person is in this late stage of alopecia, their treatment options are very limited. Plugs, transplants, hairpieces, hats and good old Bic razors are pretty much what he limits himself to!
- In the early to mid stages of alopecia, when hair is thin but still visible, DHT blockers can be used to slow, stop, and in many cases even backwards hair loss.
- The only FDA-approved hair loss treatments available for men with early to mid-stage alopecia are finasteride (Propecia) and minoxidil (Rogaine).
- Minoxidil was originally designed as a blood pressure medication. One of the common side effects was excessive hair growth! This stuff worked even before it was supposed to, and today it yields a success rate of about 64% when used alone.
- Finasteride has an even higher success rate…83 percent. Unfortunately, this treatment option for male hair loss also carries the risk of serious sexual side effects. A natural alternative to the drug is the extract of a North American palm plant known as saw palmetto.
In addition to these ten facts about hair loss in men, you may want to know that minoxidil and finasteride (or saw palmetto) can be taken simultaneously, and if they are, the success rate is huge.
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