Surviving Male Pattern Baldness
By www.menhealthonline.biz
Surviving Male Pattern Baldness
It's truly sad for most people that suffer from Male Pattern Baldness at a relatively young age. I first suffered from Male Pattern Baldness at a rather young age of 18. During that time, I've noticed the gradual decline of my frontal hairline and vertex areas. The feeling of hopelessness and a devastating effect to self confidence are the main effects of Male Pattern Baldness. Imagine young sufferers who just started their new life in the society and just ventured into adulthood face one of the most saddening physical conditions a guy could possibly face.
Capitalists and opportunists have targeted this young group of people with hair loss miracles and potions that provide all sorts of guarantee in recovering from hair loss. However, most of these products are not scientifically based and therefore does not work except bringing in huge source of income for these unethical manufacturers.
One of the most common misconceptions for Male Pattern Baldness sufferers are that they do not do enough research or thoroughly understand about their condition before trying out these treatments. Consequently, most sufferers end up with 'Shooting without Aiming' which usually end up with a waste of resources and time. As hair loss is a progressively degenerative condition and should be treated as soon as possible, wasting time on fruitless treatments will only make matters worse.
Modern science has already discovered that Male Pattern Baldness is caused by Dihydro-testosterone or DHT in short. DHT is the binding of the male hormone Testosterone with the enzyme 5 Alpha Reductase (5AR) in our body. Progressively through time and hair growth cycles, excessive DHT will degenerate and miniaturize our hair follicles to a point where is it not visible to the naked eye. This is the cause of Pattern Baldness and therefore to treat it, no other hair loss products are effective to stopping Pattern Baldness except those targeted in reducing DHT or prohibiting the binding of Testosterone with the 5AR enzyme.
Still unknown to many Male Pattern Baldness sufferers, there are only 2 FDA Approved products that are widely used to combat Pattern Baldness. These treatments are known as Propecia (Finasteride in generic form) and Minoxidil. Propecia is used to stop the enzyme 5AR from binding with Testosterone and Minoxidil is used to stimulate hair growth. Although these 2 products are proven to hinder Pattern Baldness, in a lot of cases, there are still a considerable percentage of people using these products do not experience the recovery as expected and some even find these 2 treatments are totally ineffective for them.
The main reason for the ineffectiveness is because it takes more than just Propecia and Minoxidil to stop this stubborn condition.