So, you’re losing your hair? It felt like the end of the world is not it? Well I’m here to give you some good news and bad news. We’ll start with the bad first, and that unfortunately hair loss is not only interfere with the changes that take place by breaking the golden years. Other changes include erectile dysfunction, swelling of the prostate, urinary symptoms that go with a large prostate, reducing time to sleep stage 4, and the list goes on and on. The way I see it going bald is that most concern you. Ok so the good news is that in this age of pharmaceuticals, there are some great choices to solve the many problems mentioned above, including hair loss.
So you do not have to accept your fate is determined genetically. Not only are there good pharmalogical choice but the choice of semi hair implant surgery is always improving. So what causes hair loss known as male pattern baldness? Well it is in the genes as mentioned above. Rumor is that it runs through the maternal line. So, if your mother’s father is bald than you should start getting ready. That’s not the whole story though. It turns out that there is an enzyme that converts testosterone to dihyroxytestosterone or DHT. DHT is produced in larger quantities and that some are more sensitive to the action in various ways, including hair roots and actually act as a poison to the hair to permanently end the ability of cells to produce hair proginator to continue to grow hair.
One of the best treatments is a drug called finasteride or Propecia which inhibits an enzyme, alpha 1 reductase that catalyzes the reduction of testosterone into DHT. If started early enough to prevent (or significantly slow) hair loss. This drug has been proven highly efficacious with a relatively low dose, which limits side effects for at least tolerable. One of the problems with drugs that recently have made many in the media is the Olympic ban on Propecia. It turns out that it can and has been used as cover-ups to improve the performance of anabolic steroid drugs. So a significant issue that fortunately only a very small minority affects bald men.
As mentioned there are also options for temporary implant that looks like it makes you look worse than just a hair. Rows of corn are not what most people would go and every thing but natural. But now you really have a hard time seeing the difference unless you are around a guy and suddenly they have a head of hair that did not use to be there. . So like I said, compared to the other problems that will eventually crop up, hair loss is tame. But do not let us suffer in the looks department fortunately there are good options to stem the “disease.”