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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.

The market for thinning hair treatments is enormous and like all these things where there is a market there will be a product, or lots 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. But sadly the most likely result you will get from using these products is to empty your wallet.

The reality is that there is only 2 products for thinning hair that are approved by the FDA for use as a balding treatment. The first is finasteride, marketed as Propecia, which is a prescription only balding treatment. Minoxidil is the second and is found under a range of different names. 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 to women because studies have shown that the use of finasteride by women can have unpleasant side effects.

Neither of these products was designed as a hair loss product, finasteride was originally intended to treat the prostate and minoxidil to treat high blood pressure. 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. In each case positive results were observed.

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 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.

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 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 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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