Men's Hair Loss Facts - 10 Interesting Facts About Men's Hair Loss!

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I would like to share some pretty useful and interesting men's hair loss facts with you. I picked these ten facts up from various online and offline sources. These men's hair loss facts should not only help you gain a clear understanding of the condition, but may offer some hope that an effective treatment may exist for you.

I hope this helps!

10 Interesting Men's Hair Loss Facts:

Androgenic alopecia, better known as male pattern baldness, is the most common type of hair loss on the planet, and it affects nearly 50% of every man over the age of 50!


The primary cause of male pattern baldness is a build-up of male sex hormones known as androgens. The most loathsome of these is dihydrotestosterone, or DHT.

DHT adversely affects normal hair growth by clinging to your follicles and rendering them unable to absorb proper nutriment from the scalps blood supply. In essence, DHT chokes hair to death!

Initially the effects of DHT build-up will manifest themselves as thin patches on the crown and in the "widow's peak" areas of the head. The hair will usually be very fine and beginning to disappear.

If left untreated for a long period of time, androgenic alopecia will continue to starve your hair follicles until they are no longer thin... they're gone! This is how total baldness occurs.

If an individual happens to be in this late stage of alopecia, his treatment options are very limited. Plugs, transplants, hair pieces, hats, and good ole Bic razors are pretty much what he's limited to!

In the early to middle stages of alopecia, when the hair is thin but still visible, DHT blockers can be used to slow, stop, and in many cases even reverse hair loss.

The only FDA Approved hair loss treatments available for men with early to middle stages of alopecia are finasteride (Propecia) and minoxidil (Rogaine).

Minoxidil was originally designed as a blood pressure medication. One of its commonly occurring side effect was excessive hair growth! This stuff worked even before it was supposed to, and today yields a success rate of approximately 64% when used alone.

Finasteride boasts an even higher success rate... 83 percent. Unfortunately, this mens hair loss treatment option also comes with the risk of serious sexual side effects. A natural alternative to the drug is the extract of a North American palm plant known as saw palmetto.

In addition to these ten mens hair loss facts, you may like to know that minoxidil and finasteride (or saw palmetto) can be taken concurrently, and when they are, the success rate is through the roof.