Hair Restoration and Replacement

The goal of this blog is to give you good information you can use to make intelligent decisions about your hair loss and what can be done about it. The fact is, a lot of people are fed up with the big drug companies and how they are always pushing expensive drugs that have terrible side effects on people. More and more of the people I talk to are going the way of Mother Nature and finding natural remedies that do the same as the expensive drugs without the expense and the terrible side effects. Luckily, there is a natural hair loss treatment that many people are finding effective.

First a little primer on Hair Loss. If you are a man then there is a 95% chance that you will be losing your hair because of male pattern baldness. This is the common name of a medical condition that is passed down from generation to generation called androgenic alopecia. When a person suffers from this terrible condition your hair on certain parts of your head are susceptible to falling out. The is because the hair follicle, also called hair roots, can be attacked by a hormonal substance known as DHT. If you are looking for a natural hair restoration solution it needs to deal with this element.

DHT is the bad guy when it comes to hair loss due to androgenic alopecia. The key to stopping your hair loss is to either lower the levels of DHT or protect the hair follicles from attack. There is a drug that is used to control your levels of this substance. The drug is called Finasteride and it was originally developed to treat male urinary tract problems, in particular enlarged prostate. What happened during clinical trials was the men taking the drug found out that their male pattern baldness improved along with their prostate. Further studies found both hair loss and male urinary problems are tied to DHT so it makes sense that they would both have positive results. Finasteride is effective but it has some nasty side effects. In men it can lower the sex drive which kind of makes growing more hair a waste of time. But the real bad problems are in women. In fact, women can’t even touch the tablets for fear of the chance for birth defects in male babies. The drug causes their sexual organs to not develop correctly. Fiansteride does not sound like something I would want in my body.

Natural Hair Loss Treatments

As nature would have it, there is actually a natural treatment for hair loss that seems to mimic the effects and mechanism of this drug. The Saw Palmetto plant has been used for centuries by Native Americans in the Southeast to treat male urinary problems. Recently it has also been tried as a natural hair loss treatment and many people are reporting good results.

It appears as though the saw palmetto extract works on the DHT in a similar method as the Finasteride does. If this is true, then this could be one of the natural treatments for hair loss that a person could use instead of the expensive drugs with bad side effects. If this interests you then do more research and talk to your doctor. You should always discuss any health remedies with your doctor to be he or she is aware of all the substances you are putting in your body.