DHT or Dihydrotestosterone is the foremost culprit in the vast majority of Male Pattern Baldness cases. A derivative of the common variety of Testosterone present in the human body, DHT has serious issues with our hair follicles. That grudge translates into hair loss. Read on for the full story of how this unfolds.
Androgenetic Alopecia, commonly known as male Pattern Baldness is an inherited condition. It's not however a matter of inheriting weak hair. Not at all. The source of hereditary hair loss is an over enthusiastic enzyme termed 5-alpha Reductase. That's what passes though the genes and is the main cause of the receding hairlines and thinning crowns so typical of Male Pattern Baldness.
This 5-alpha Reductase enzyme is responsible for synthesizing Testosterone into the follicle killer, Dihydrotestosterone or DHT for short. Dihydrotestosterone congregates at the roots of hair follicles, restricting the flow of nourishment and ultimately destroying the follicles totally. The result? Progressively thinning hair and finally male pattern baldness.
As the accumulation of DHT in our hair follicles increases, these begin to grow weaker and weaker hair. Shedding hair in the course of our day by day behavior is a natural cycle. With healthy follicles, this lost hair is re-generated, balance is maintained and we never visibly thinning hair. As the DHT attacks our follicles however, weaker hair starts to grow back, which is lost easier and grows back slower. As the cycle repeats itself, hair regrowth can't keep up with lost hair and male pattern baldness sets in.
Logic dictates that slowing down the effect of the DHT would be a very effective hair loss treatment. The logic here translates into real science and there have been several clinical studies into the effectiveness of various DHT blocker preparations.
One of the most effective DHT blockers is Minoxidil. Originally developed to treat high blood pressure, Minoxidil was highly successful but did have one major stumbling block. Minoxidil displayed a very common side-effect. Hair growth. Lots of hair growth. This became so common to users of the drug that the makers were forced to acknowledge this in their literature.
For people with high blood pressure and a full head of hair, this side-effect was probably unwanted. For sufferers of Androgenetic Alopecia around the world though, this ushered in the surfacing of Minoxidil as the first truly effective DHT blocker.
Further clinical analysis reached an undeniable conclusion. Minoxidil acted directly on the 5-alpha Reductase enzyme, reducing its ability to metabolize Testosterone into DHT. The evidence was pretty convincing and Minoxidil became the most efficient DHT blocker to be had on the market.
Minoxidil is in fact so successful that the FDA has approved it for use as a DHT blocker. Both forms of the medication have been approved, with 5% solutions and 2% solutions for use by men and women correspondingly being on the FDA list of approved drugs.
Many of the world's greatest scientific breakthroughs have been the results of accidents. In the case of Androgenetic Alopecia, thousands of sufferers have benefited from that unwanted Minoxidil side-effect. In the battle against hair loss, our new best friend is an efficient DHT blocker.
No matter how that friend came about - even by chance.
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More and more people are turning to a DHT Blocker in their struggle against hair loss. Find out more about this demonstrated cure and why this is the most successful Hair Regrowth Treatment on offer today.
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