The Good News and the Bad about Baldness Cures on the Internet

Posted on 2009-11-19, 05:30, by peter1, under Conditions and Diseases.

Are there any good baldness cures on the net, or are they a scam?

There are tens of millions, or possibly even hundreds of millions, of men in the US searching for a baldness cure. It is estimated that around 50 percent of men will suffer some form of balding and most of them will hate it. For this reason baldness cures, particularly on the Internet, are big business. But how do you go about finding a genuine cure for baldness?

Baldness cures aren't cheap and so the market for hair loss treatments is worth hundreds of millions of dollars or more. Where there is that much money at stake, there will be many products to fill that demand. But that doesn't mean that all of them work or even that they would be safe for you to use.

The Internet is pretty much unregulated and it's very easy to put up a website selling hair loss treatments. There is no requirement that anyone who does to this demonstrate that their hair loss treatment does anything to reverse hair loss or even that it is safe to use. You have to beware of any cures for baldness on the net.

It's very easy to get ripped off buying baldness cures on the Internet. Not only is there a fair chance they will not reverse your hair loss, there is also a likelihood that they may be harmful to your health and to your wallet. Does this mean that you should forget about regrowing your hair?

Not at all. We have an organization whose job it is to regulate these things. The FDA has approved two products to use as men's hair loss treatments. Both of these products have been demonstrated to the satisfaction of the FDA to work to counter male balding, including cases of male pattern baldness because that causes over 90 percent of men's balding.

It is fair to assume that where the FDA has approved a product as a men's hair loss treatment, that there is sufficient evidence in the form of proper scientific studies, that these products work to reverse hair loss. However, it is also true that these products will not work as a cure for baldness for every man suffering from male pattern balding. It is too much to expect any product to work for everybody.

The FDA has approved minoxidil and finasteride as men's hair loss treatments. Finasteride is marketed as Propecia and is not approved for use in cases of women's hair loss because it has been demonstrated to cause some serious side-effects for women. It can also have some side-effects for men, including loss of libido.

Minoxidil is the only hair loss product approved for use by men and women. It is thought to operate to restore hair growth by improving the blood flow to the hair follicle, thereby improving the availability of nutrients to the follicle. As a lack of nutrients is the reason why a hair dies in cases of male pattern baldness, this makes complete sense.

And whilst it is clear that minoxidil on its own works as a hair loss treatment, one company has seen an opportunity to improve the results and has combined minoxidil with essential hair nutrients to maximize the chances that their hair follicles will absorb enough nutrients to start to regrow hair.

This product seems to work more effectively than simply using minoxidil on its own.

But you must be aware that despite the fact that there are dozens of baldness cures on the Internet, there are only 2 cures for baldness in men that are approved by the FDA and only one, minoxidil, is approved as a male pattern baldness cure as well as a cure for baldness in women.

On my website, you can find out which company markets minoxidil combined with a range of essential hair nutrients in a total hair loss treatment to maximize the chances of successful regrowth of your hair.

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