Over the last few decades hair loss treatments have become substantially more effective.
Following some significant scientific breakthroughs about the role of DHT in baldness the best hair loss treatments now use proprietary DHT blockers.
Let's examine what DHT is and how DHT blockers to combat your balding.
DHT, (or what is scientifically known as Dihydrotestosterone), is what is known as an androgen.
An androgen is a compound that controls the development of particularly male characteristics in men.
Dihydrotestosterone is formed from the male hormonal testosterone in the adrenal glands, prostate, testes and in particular in the hair follicles.
Dihydrotestosterone controls the development of a wide range of male characteristics, particularly during puberty, including the development of hair, for example male facial hair.
As you probably know male pattern baldness, or androgenic alopecia, is something that you inherit from your parents and other generations.
However although male pattern baldness is known to be genetic the reasons are now much better understood and have to do with the development of DHT in the male body.
It also has a role in female pattern baldness.
It seems that those with the genes responsible for male pattern baldness develop much more Dihydrotestosterone in their bodies than those who do not.
And it is the DHT that is primarily responsible for balding.
In fact it is estimated that up to 95 percent of all hair loss is caused by the action of DHT.
Effectively what happens is that the Dihydrotestosterone gathers around the base of the follicle and strangles it by means of reducing the amount of nutrients available to that hair follicle.
It forms a sort of waxy base around the follicle.
As hair depends hugely on an adequate supply of nutrients this means that it struggles to reproduce successfully and becomes weak and thinner.
Once it was understood how DHT reduced the capacity of the hair to take in nutrients more was understood about how to produce a cure.
The most well-known of these is what is called minoxidil.
This was the first and only product approved by the FDA for use as a balding loss treatment and it is now known that minoxidil works extremely well in many cases.
Minoxidil works to increase the blood flow to the hair, thereby increasing it's ability to take up nutrients.
The very best baldness treatment utilising minoxidil as an active ingredient goes one step further.
I mentioned the role of nutrition in hair health.
The very best baldness treatment relies on minoxidil to increase blood flow and nutrient take up however also provides a range of essential hair nutrients to be taken orally.
This is an essential step in the hair restoration process.
There is no point in and allowing the hair to reabsorb the essential nutrients without providing the essential nutrients at the same time.
One product does this extremely successfully.
And it includes a natural product called Saw Palmetto which has been shown to reduce the effects of DHT.
Hopefully this helps you understand the essential role of DHT in hair loss and provides new information to you on how to tackle that thinning that you may be experiencing.
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