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Your Hair Is Thinning. What Should You Know About Choosing Thinning Hair Products?
- By Peter Clark
- Published 11/1/2009
- Alopecia Research
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Peter Clark
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It is estimated that around half of all men and a quarter of all women will experience some problem with baldness at some stage in their life. Whilst for men baldness can sometimes be fashionable it is certainly not fashionable for women, and it's probably true to say that men who suffer from it generally do not consider it fashionable. So there are millions of people who are looking for the best product for thinning hair. Lets consider the options you have when searching for products for thinning hair.
First of all let's consider the causes of hair loss. It is estimated that up to 95 percent of all men and a similar percentage of women all suffer from pattern baldness. This is a condition inherited from previous members of your family which genetically predisposes you to some degree of balding. There is men's pattern baldness and women's pattern baldness and the effects for different individuals vary wildly but the method by which it operates is the same for all. There is a hormone called DHT which causes individual hairs to thin, weaken and die by slowly restricting their capacity to absorb nutrients.
The market for thinning hair treatments is very big and where you find a big market you find a plethora 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.
But in fact there are only 2 products approved by the FDA for use as balding treatments. The first is finasteride, marketed as Propecia, which is a prescription only balding treatment. The second is minoxidil which is found in a range of products.
Both minoxidil and finasteride are approved for use as a balding treatment for men however it is only minoxidil that is FDA approved as a balding treatment for women because studies have shown that the use of finasteride by women can have unpleasant side effects.
Both these products were originally intended to treat other conditions, finasteride to treat prostate related conditions and minoxidil to treat high blood pressure. In both cases trial subjects observed an increase in hair growth and so further studies were undertaken on the effects of these treatments as a balding treatment. And good results were achieved for both.
There's many options available if you're looking for the best thinning hair product. None of the hair products for thinning hair marketed on the Internet, other than the 2 mentioned above, are FDA approved and so you choose to try any of these hair loss products 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 equally you should be aware that observable results, even when using either of the 2 approved products, may take quite some time to appear and you should be prepared to use either of them for a minimum of 6 months and preferably 12 months before you decide if they are working for you. But both of these thinning hair treatments are effective.
The cause of the hair loss is the same, namely that the hair dies because the DHT limits it's available nutrients. It is thought that the way minoxidil increases hair regrowth is by increasing supply of blood to the hair follicle thereby improving its ability to uptake nutrients. One innovative company has combined the use of minoxidil with a range of essential hair nutrients that are made available to the hair follicle so that when the minoxidil allows the follicle to increase its uptake of nutrients all those nutrients are available.
This approach makes sense and would seem to be more effective than simply using minoxidil by itself. It seems to make complete sense that if lack of nutrients causes hair thinning then supplying more nutrients and increasing the ability of the follicle to absorb those nutrients must ultimately be the best approach.
First of all let's consider the causes of hair loss. It is estimated that up to 95 percent of all men and a similar percentage of women all suffer from pattern baldness. This is a condition inherited from previous members of your family which genetically predisposes you to some degree of balding. There is men's pattern baldness and women's pattern baldness and the effects for different individuals vary wildly but the method by which it operates is the same for all. There is a hormone called DHT which causes individual hairs to thin, weaken and die by slowly restricting their capacity to absorb nutrients.
The market for thinning hair treatments is very big and where you find a big market you find a plethora 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.
But in fact there are only 2 products approved by the FDA for use as balding treatments. The first is finasteride, marketed as Propecia, which is a prescription only balding treatment. The second is minoxidil which is found in a range of products.
Both these products were originally intended to treat other conditions, finasteride to treat prostate related conditions and minoxidil to treat high blood pressure. In both cases trial subjects observed an increase in hair growth and so further studies were undertaken on the effects of these treatments as a balding treatment. And good results were achieved for both.
There's many options available if you're looking for the best thinning hair product. None of the hair products for thinning hair marketed on the Internet, other than the 2 mentioned above, are FDA approved and so you choose to try any of these hair loss products 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 equally you should be aware that observable results, even when using either of the 2 approved products, may take quite some time to appear and you should be prepared to use either of them for a minimum of 6 months and preferably 12 months before you decide if they are working for you. But both of these thinning hair treatments are effective.
The cause of the hair loss is the same, namely that the hair dies because the DHT limits it's available nutrients. It is thought that the way minoxidil increases hair regrowth is by increasing supply of blood to the hair follicle thereby improving its ability to uptake nutrients. One innovative company has combined the use of minoxidil with a range of essential hair nutrients that are made available to the hair follicle so that when the minoxidil allows the follicle to increase its uptake of nutrients all those nutrients are available.
This approach makes sense and would seem to be more effective than simply using minoxidil by itself. It seems to make complete sense that if lack of nutrients causes hair thinning then supplying more nutrients and increasing the ability of the follicle to absorb those nutrients must ultimately be the best approach.