Nobody likes to think about balding. There is even a tendency to wish those balding signs away and pretend it isn’t happening to you. The common myth is that hair loss is entirely genetic and inevitable, so why face it while you can still hide it with a comb over? The fact is that there are many types of balding that can be treated, so stop hiding your head in the sand and read on!
An almost unbelievable forty-five million men i the United States alone have male pattern baldness to some degree or other. While some just have a slowly receding hairline and try to pretend it will go away, others do something about it.
Believe it or not, women too experience loss of hair. For women, the symptoms come later in life and usually show themselves as thinning hair rather than the absence of hair in large areas of the head. Nevertheless, it is a cause of terrible anxiety and embarrassment to see it happening.
Both men and women can benefit from the latest hair regrowth treatment. First of all, let’s look at what causes loss of hair. It is caused by a natural hormone called DHT (dihydrotestostrone). DHT binds itself to hair follicle receptors and literally chokes them off. The hair gradually grows back thinner and thinner until finally the hair follicles die off. This process can be arrested and stopped with the right treatment.
First developed and used as a medication to treat high blood pressure, a chemical compound called Minoxidil was discovered to have a remarkable side effect – it reversed baldness! Originally, Minoxidil was taken orally, but further studies showed that it could be used in a targeted manner to treat male pattern baldness.
Women’s thinning hair and baldness isn’t caused by DHT as it is in men, but Minoxidil works just as well for them. This has been proven time and time again.
It took many years before Minoxidil was approved by the FDA as a safe treatment for thinning hair. Now that it has been, men and women everywhere are beginning to discover that at last there is a treatment that works to reverse those balding signs! Those who used to laugh at hair loss treatments aren’t laughing anymore. This stuff has been proven to work! You don’t have to beg your mirror for help anymore!
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