What Really Works to Stop Hair Loss from Worsening

Baldness is a common occurrence, especially in men who have inherited the genetic trait to lose hair from one or both parents’ side of the family. While some men don’t seem to mind the loss of their hair, for others this is a somewhat traumatic experience. Millions of dollars are spent each year in an effort to prevent balding and to regrow hair. The Internet is full of advertisements for treatment products. There are also natural hair loss treatments and surgical procedures. Finally, the question many men are asking is, ‘Do any of them really work?’

The answer to whether there is any hair loss treatment that works is both yes and no. While there are treatments out there that do work, not all treatments work for every individual. Here are a few things that can help slow balding and even help to regrow hair in some individuals:

Bio-Cleansing Shampoo

Keeping your scalp clean through the use of the right shampoo is the foremost step to take in treating hair loss. The onset of hair loss is due to a scalp that is filled with grime, dirt, and excess sebum and oils. Hence, the start of the treatment ought to be cleaning the scalp as well. With a bio-cleansing shampoo—usually formulated with fennel and mistletoe extracts—the scalp can be rid of those 3 major hair loss–inducing substances.

Diet

Eating a healthy diet is necessary to keep our bodies in good health. Hair is part of our body and therefore needs the right vitamins and minerals to grow. Hair is made up mostly of protein and in some instances balding has been attributed to lack of protein in the diet. Obtaining protein from fish, chicken and other lean meats is believed to help prevent balding and possibly contribute to new growth. Other things your body needs to maintain healthy and growing hair is iron, vitamin C, vitamin B, silica, and zinc. Eating a healthy anti-aging diet is considered to be a good hair loss treatment.

Hair Loss Drugs

The hair loss treatment drugs finasteride and minoxidil are believed to have attained hair regrowth for 20–40 percent of users. On the other hand, once you stop using these, you’ll again start losing hair, so continuous use of these products are necessary to keep what you regrow. However, continuous use of finasteride and minoxidil can also cause harmful systemic effects such as swelling of the face and severe itching of the scalp (for minoxidil) and sexual dysfunction (for finasteride).

Hair Transplants

While transplants are considered a hair loss treatment, they don’t regrow hair. With hair transplants, healthy hair follicles are surgically moved to balding areas of the scalp. This surgical procedure, however, does not prevent the whole scalp from accumulating dormant hair follicles; thus, hair loss on other scalp areas can still be losing hair after the surgery.

While there is no hair loss treatment that will work for everyone, all is not hopeless as there are treatments that may slow the balding and even help regrow hair. By choosing a treatment with an informed decision, one or more of these treatments may greatly benefit you.