Hair Restoration and Replacement

There is help for you if you are going bald and you want a hair restorer product or treatment that will help you to get your hair growing again. Ever since civilization began men have been trying to find a way to restore the full head of hair they enjoyed in their youth. A while ago an ancient hair restoration procedure was found drawn on the walls of an Egyptian tomb from about 3500 BC. It was with other hieroglyphs that were explaining the day to day life of the Egyptian nobility. Apparently hair loss and hair restorer products have been popular for at least that long.

Most of the work that has been done for re-growing hair and treating baldness in this country has been focused on drugs and products that can be sold by the big companies. The old remedies and treatments that have been around for years have not received any where near the exposure that these other methods have. This is really how it is in the US, the only things that get studied or get any press are things that make big companies more money.

If a hair restoration remedy has been around for decades or centuries it stands to reason that it must do something to help people get their hair growing again. That is only reasonable. It would be much better if our scientific community would spend time finding out why old time baldness treatments worked instead of developing new drugs with bad side effects. One of the current drugs from the big drug companies is so potent that a pregnant woman can not even touch the pill with her finger for fear of birth defects.

What is really interesting is when a natural hair growth remedy that has been around for hundreds of years is found to affect the body the same way an expensive drug does. One example of this is Saw Palmetto Extract. This natural hair loss supplement has been used in Europe for years to treat male pattern baldness. It has only recently been shown to act on the body the same way some of the hair growth drugs do.

The cause of male pattern baldness is a build up of DHT, dihydrotestosterone, an androgen hormone. DHT is a result of the metabolism of the male hormone testosterone. This DHT is found in the blood stream and elevated levels can cause male prostrate problems along with hair loss from male pattern baldness. Saw Palmetto helps the body the limit the amount of DHT that is present in the blood stream. Without the excess hormone the blood can continue to deliver oxygen and nutrients to the hair follicle thus allowing it to continue to manufacture hair shaft material. Thus the hair loss is stopped and the hair follicles can continue to grow hair.

It is very interesting that this is the exact mechanism that a drug called finasteride, marketed as Propecia, uses to combat hair loss. In fact, this drug was originally developed to treat male urinary system problems and it was only when the drug got into clinical trials that it was found to also treat baldness and bald spots.

This is only one example of a natural hair restorer that may work as well as an expensive drug. At least is operates in the same way on the causes of alopecia or male pattern baldness. Perhaps we should take a closer look at these old hair loss remedies.