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What Role Does Biotin Have As A Hair Loss Treatment?
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Peter Clark
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By Peter Clark
Published on 10/7/2009
 
If you have been researching hair loss and hair loss treatments you've probably come across biotin. It seems that there is a link between biotin and hair loss and even that increasing your intake of biotin can work as a hair loss treatment.

The major cause of hair loss in men is male pattern baldness. This is an inherited condition where the male sex hormone called DHT strangles the hair follicles gradually by limiting their ability to take in essential nutrients.

What Role Does Biotin Have As A Hair Loss Treatment?
If you have been researching hair loss and hair loss treatments you've probably come across biotin. It seems that there is a link between biotin and hair loss and even that increasing your intake of biotin can work as a hair loss treatment.

The major cause of hair loss in men is male pattern baldness. This is an inherited condition where the male sex hormone called DHT strangles the hair follicles gradually by limiting their ability to take in essential nutrients. And research shows that biotin is very important to hair health and so there may indeed be a hair loss biotin link.Let's see.

Biotin is a vitamin. Biotin is a soluble vitamin called vitamin B.It is found in a variety of foods and is also manufactured in the body and has a role in the metabolism of fats, carbohydrates and proteins into energy in the cells and therefore has a role in cell growth. Anyone who has a biotin deficiency is at risk of losing hair and eyebrows. It affects the metabolism of scalp oils in scalp follicles and therefore has a role in hair health.

And so many issue that biotin supplements work as a baldness cure. However there is little evidence that taking biotin on its own works to treat male baldness. But that doesn't mean that biotin cannot be used as part of a hair restoration treatment overall.

There are already well-known hair restoration treatments on the market. The best and most well-known is a product called minoxidil which is approved by the FDA. You find minoxidil marketed under a range of different product names but it is recognised as about the best hair loss treatment available today.

Using minoxidil on its own can be effective for many men. But using minoxidil alone is not necessarily the most effective treatment. To understand why you need to know a little more about why men lose their hair. The cause of the thinning hair in cases of male pattern baldness is the male sex hormone DHT which attaches to hair follicles on the scalp and slowly limits the ability of those follicles to absorb essential hair nutrients.

Minoxidil can certainly block the operation of the DHT and this allows the follicles to absorb more nutrition.The minoxidil will certainly limit the operation of the DHT and when it does this their hair follicles can absorb more nutrition. However if these are not available in sufficient quantities they cannot be absorbed. But there is excellent news that one product tackle this problem using a double-edged approach, providing minoxidil to inhibit the DHT and essential hair nutrients to become available to the hair follicles once the DHT is blocked. This product uses a revolutionary approach of blocking DHT together with providing essential nutrients.

There is now evidence that this approach produces the Best Hair Loss Treatment.

So whilst there is no clear evidence that using biotin for hair growth works successfully on its own, one excellent hair restoration product does use biotin as one of the active ingredients in its complete hair restoration system. It seems that combining biotin with hair nutrients and minoxidil is an effective hair restoration treatment and more effective than using minoxidil on its own.

I hope that's enlightened you more about the Biotin Hair Loss link.