How Do You Choose 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. For some men it’s fashionable to be bald but it is certainly not fashionable for women to be bald and it’s probably fair to say that balding in men is still upsetting. So there are millions of people who are looking for the best product for thinning hair. Lets have a look at thinning hair 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 estimated that up to 95 percent of all men and a similar percentage of women all suffer from 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. One hormonal called DHT causes the balding because it slowly decreases the capacity of hair follicles to absorb nutrients essential to hair health meaning that the hair will gradually weaken and die.



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 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. Unfortunately many of these will do nothing for you other than to empty your wallet.

In fact FDA approved balding treatments are very limited, in fact there is only 2. The first is finasteride, marketed as Propecia, which is a prescription only balding treatment. The 2nd of these goes under different names but is called minoxidil. 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 minoxidil or finasteride were designed as hair loss treatments, minoxidil was originally a blood pressure treatment and finasteride a prostate treatment. 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. And good results were achieved for both.

There’s many products to choose from if you’re in need of a good thinning hair treatment. There is only the 2 products mentioned above that are approved by the FDA as baldness treatments and none of the others are approved so use them 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 it is also very important to understand that even if you use one of the 2 products approved for use it may take quite some time before you can see any regrowth of hair and you should commit to a minimum of 6 months, and preferably 12 months, before you are prepared to make a judgement on whether 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 minoxidil as the effect of increasing the supply of blood to the follicle which in turn allows it to take up more nutrients. And one company has recognised the potential of this approach and so supplies minoxidil together with a range of essential hair nutrients so that when the hair follicle is able to take up more nutrients they are available.

This would seem to be a much cleverer approach than simply selling minoxidil. It does make sense that it lack of nutrients causes hair loss that supplying all hair nutrients and increasing the capacity of the follicle to absorb them must work better.

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