Is Your Hairline Being Threatened

by GotHair 4. November 2009 21:14
I don't know a thing about you, but I'll bet that when you first noticed that your hair was thinning it was a source of great anxiety for you. You're not alone; many men suffer a dramatic effect on their confidence and self-image at the first signs of hair recession. Maybe it started with a little bit gone around your temples, and then maybe the thinning became more noticeable on the crown of your head.

How did this happen to me? What caused my hair to start falling out? I'm only in my mid 20's I can't be going bald already can I? Baldness is for old men. Maybe wearing that baseball cap all the time is the cause; everyone says wearing hats to often can cause you to lose your hair right? Well the truth is that old baseball cap your so fond of didn't cause your thinning hair.

Hair recession can have many causes, some of them complex and difficult to deal with, some causes of hair loss may not be able to be treated, and some may need expensive and sometimes painful surgical intervention to repair.

One of the most common causes of hair loss is male pattern baldness, which tends to be an inherited condition, but before you blame your father, you should know it's a genetic trait from both sides of your family and just because your father had or didn't have a full head of hair is no guarantee that you'll either keep or lose your hair.

Male pattern baldness happens because of excess in your body of a chemical called DHT or dihydrotestosterone. In a nutshell, this DHT starves the hair follicles of the vitamins and nutrients they need to be healthy. These causes the hair follicles to make thinner and thinner hairs until they burn out completely and give up the ghost, and now you're another victim of male pattern baldness.

Maybe your suffering from the dreaded "friar tuck" my personal nightmare, you know that loss of hair staring at the crown of your head and spreading outwards. I remember thinking to myself; I'd rather shave my head down to "the wood" rather then walk around in public with a friar tuck.

So now your looking for options, can you stop the march of your receding hairline, maybe even re-grow that lost hair?

Well let's look at some of your alternatives; first you could consider simply hiding your hairline with a hairpiece. I don't know about you, but for me this just isn't much of an option. Of course another option is surgical intervention, while its true 47% of men losing their hair would spend their life fortune to restore their hair, for the majority of men suffering from receding hair this just isn't an option either, hair replacement surgery can cost tens of thousands of dollars and in the case of male pattern baldness could simply be overkill for the situation.

What's needed is a good natural solution to treat the causes of hair recession, many products marketed purport to cure and reverse the loss in men. What should you know about these products before you consider trying one of them?

Well first and foremost make sure your using a product that has been clinically proven and designed to stop hair recession and re-grow that loss. You want to make sure that any product you choose contains medical ingredients approved by the FDA to help re-grow your hair. Propecia and Minoxodil are the only products approved by the FDA for this purpose, and only Minoxodil is available without a doctor's prescription.

Now that you're armed with this valuable information, your next step? Take what you've just learned here today and fully investigate what a natural hair loss remedy can do for you.

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