Hair today Gone Tommorrow

Balding is not something anyone would look forward to. Even though we are unable to stop aging we can help ourselves when it comes to hair loss.

Our hair does get thinner as we age and more for some than others but with today's medications and creams etc we may be able to slow this down.

I have looked into many hair loss remedies and have found some that are better than others in how they say the can slow down hair loss and some even say they will help your existing hair grow more and stronger. I do not know about that but have heard of some of the good some of them do.

Saturday, November 28, 2009

Will Minoxidil Use Really Reverse Your Thinning Hair Problem?

By Peter Albertson

It is estimated that 50 percent or more of men will suffer from some form of baldness in their lives, generally the result of the inherited condition known as male pattern baldness, or androgenetic alopecia. Minoxidil is one of 2 products approved by the FDA for use as a baldness treatment in men. But will minoxidil use work for you?

There are hundreds of baldness cures on the internet, but only minoxidil and finasteride have been approved by the FDA to reverse thinning hair in men and the FDA has only approved minoxidil as a baldness treatment by women.

It therefore follows that these are the only 2 products which have scientific evidence of their effectiveness as baldness treatments which is sufficient to convince the FDA of their effectiveness, and only one, minoxidil, has sufficient scientific evidence of it's effectiveness for women.

If any of the companies that make the miracle cures for baldness found on the internet could produce sufficient scientific proof that these products actually worked to reverse thinning hair you can be absolutely certain they would apply for FDA approval today. FDA approval for a product to treat hair loss is as good as a licence to print money, and if they had the evidence of the effectiveness of the product they would apply for FDA approval immediately.

But whilst minoxidil is the only FDA approved treatment of thinning hair in both men and women, you do need to understand a few things about minoxidil use before you start using minoxidil to treat your baldness problem.

Obviously minoxidil works to reverse thinning hair or the FDA would not have approved it. But just because it is proven to work doesn't mean that it works for everybody. Just as there are cancer treatments which are proven to work to treat cancer, they do not work for everybody, and it is not realistic to expect minoxidil to be any different. Do not expect that just because it works for others that it will also work for you, though of course there is a good chance that it will.

And secondly if you are considering using minoxidil you need to understand that even if it works for you the results take time to achieve and that you should be prepared to commit to using a product for at least 6 months, and preferably 12, before you can make a judgement about whether it is working for you. Otherwise you may find that you discontinue minoxidil use too early, and before it has started to work.

And the last thing to understand about using minoxidil for hair loss is that even if you have a successful result you will need to continue using minoxidil to maintain that result. If you discontinue minoxidil use all of the hair regrowth that you have achieved will gradually be lost again and your thinning hair will return.

There is no doubt that using minoxidil works to reverse baldness in men as well as women, but you need to have realistic expectations and understand that this does not mean it will work to reverse your thinning hair. To increase the likelihood that minoxidil used for you there is now a new product which combines minoxidil together with a range of essential hair nutrients which has been found to increase the effectiveness of minoxidil use for thinning hair.

To find out which product increases the likelihood that minoxidil will work you by combining it with a range of essential hair nutrients visit my website.

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