Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Quick Hair Loss Treatment

Quick Hair Loss Treatment
It is never too late to reverse the effects of hair loss. It affects 85 million men and women in the U.S. alone, and many of these people go through expensive and at times painful processes in order to get the results that they desire. To know what will stop and reverse hair loss, it is first important to understand what causes hair loss.

To put it simply, hair loss is caused by a hormone called DHT (dihydrotestosterone) which binds to hair follicles, causing them to gradually grow thinner and eventually stunting growth all together. The most proven way to prevent DHT from binding to hair follicles is by the use of minoxidil, an ingredient found in the leading hair loss reversal products, which is approved by the FDA (Food and Drug Administration).

Minoxidil works by inhibiting DHT's process of binding to the hair follicles, which can have the side effect of dry and itchy scalps. The best product I have found in my search for the hair loss cure has been one particular product, which contains minoxidil, along with a combination of natural herbs that act to sooth and prevent dry and itchy scalps. What also drew me to it was its list of ingredients, which includes vitamin B6, Biotin, Zinc, Saw Palmetto, Nettle root, Pumpkin Seed, Eleuthero, Uva-Ursi extract, and Muria Pauma. These terms are pretty technical, but from someone who has tried almost everything, it was these few ingredients that stood out to me from the other products I've tried. I capitalized Saw Palmetto because it is becoming a more widely known ingredient that has been proven to actually promote the growth of hair, beyond simply preventing the loss of hair, which is the selling point of most other products I have seen.