Treatment of androgenic alopecia – a long and costly process, which requires a lot of patience and a willingness to carefully follow doctor’s advice. Despite the fact that the issue of androgenic alopecia in women and men are not yet fully understood, researchers propose many effective ways to slow down hair loss.

Studies have shown that androgen levels in women with androgenic alopecia are often higher than normal. This suggests that the pathogenesis of androgenic alopecia plays a major role sensitivity of follicles to the action of DHT. In men, DHT-sensitive follicles located on the top and on the border of hair growth, which explains the characteristic shape of the male baldness. Female androgenic alopecia is diffuse and rarely leads to baldness.
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Androgenic alopecia is hair loss, often genetic, caused by one of the following reasons: the excessive content of the male sex hormone DHT (dehydrotestosterone) and increased sensitivity of hair follicles to DHT. Dehydrotestosterone, affecting the hair follicle, causing reduction in the growth stage, so that hair prematurely enters the stage of rest, followed by the deposition stage.

Often accompanied by signs of androgenic alopecia oily seborrhea and acne (blackheads), possible excessive hair growth on face and other body parts. In men, androgenic alopecia usually starts in front of the hairline and moving toward the top. In women, there is progressive thinning and loss of hair over the head and especially in the hair roots.
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