Genetic fac­tors may pre­dis­pose males to hair loss, this is con­di­tion is often referred to as male pat­tern bald­ness. Male pat­tern bald­ness is more sus­cep­ti­ble in males who have high lev­els of DHT (dihy­drotestos­terone) a gene that is found to be the cul­prit of bald­ing. Pre­vent­ing hair loss should be a mat­ter of con­cern for those who are more sus­cep­ti­ble to hair loss and begin­ning to expe­ri­ence male pat­tern bald­ness. Obtain­ing knowl­edge and a clear under­stand­ing of the envi­ron­men­tal and genetic fac­tors that go into crest­ing this con­di­tion is imper­a­tive oth­er­wise, if not addressed, can lead to baldness.

Alope­cia is what doc­tors and other med­ical experts call hair loss that has been caused by genet­ics. In just about every case, this alope­cia is andro­genic in nature, mean­ing that there are hor­mones within the body that inter­act with hair fol­li­cles of the scalp. In some males, these fol­li­cles become sen­si­tive to DHT (dihydrotestosterone).

There is also sev­eral other genetic or envi­ron­men­tal fac­tors that go into mak­ing up the con­di­tion that cre­ates andro­genic alope­cia, and although it is referred to as “male pat­tern bald­ness” women are just as sus­cep­ti­ble. One such envi­ron­men­tal fac­tor has been iden­ti­fied that relates the kinds and qual­ity of aer­o­bic exer­cise to the bald­ness though the link is still some­what unproven.

At any rate, many men and women are con­fronted with grad­ual loss of the hair on top of their heads and quite often become alarmed by it. There are ways, through, to help pre­vent such loss these days. New prod­ucts– mostly nat­ural in nature – have come into the mar­ket that show great promise in help­ing men and women to keep what they already have on their head and maybe even add a lit­tle bit more to it.

Most of these new prod­ucts are com­posed mainly of vit­a­mins, herbs and min­er­als into sup­ple­ments that are taken orally and some­time are com­bined with a top­i­cal appli­ca­tion. Those who sus­pect or fear that they will become vic­tims of alope­cia can begin tak­ing these vit­a­mins and herbs as soon as they begin to expe­ri­ence hair loss. They do not have to accept exces­sive or per­ma­nent hair loss, espe­cially with all of the pre­ventable prod­ucts on the mar­ket today.

1. DHT Hair Loss: A Chem­i­cal Process

Dihy­drotestos­terone (DHT) is a nat­ural metabo­lite in the human body that is the main cause for hair loss.  The trou­ble starts once testos­terone com­bines with an enzyme present in the oil glands found in hair fol­li­cles. DHT shrinks the hair fol­li­cle which causes the hair fol­li­cle gets smaller and finer. This is referred to as minia­tur­iza­tion with which the hair ulti­mately falls off. This is how DHT is respon­si­ble for about 95% of hair loss. The men or women who lose more hair are those who are genet­i­cally pre-disposed in pro­duc­ing more DHT than others.

2. Mir­a­cle Hair Care Prod­ucts for Baldness?

 There is no mir­a­cle hair care prod­uct that will stop bald­ing. How­ever, if a prod­uct blocked enzyme pro­duc­tion in the oil glands and DHT it should result in block­ing the hor­mone that causes balding.

3. FDA Approved Prope­cia for DHT Hair Loss

 Finas­teride is a drug that was used to treat prostate can­cer but the FDA has tested this drug and found that it reduces the pro­duc­tion of the enzyme 5 alpha thereby reduc­ing DHT lev­els. Hair loss is pre­vented when using this drug, how­ever it is only intended for males to use as a pre­ven­ta­tive hair loss solution.