Posts Tagged ‘Propecia’

How to decide the problem of androgenic alopecia?

July 8th, 2011

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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Propecia and alopecia: what is the link between them?

June 21st, 2011

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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Propecia pills for hair loss treatment

May 28th, 2011

Drug treatment of baldness is aimed at enhancing the functions of hair follicles and improvement of hair growth. Currently, there are many ways for medical treatment of baldness, and a huge number of pharmaceutical and cosmetic products to prevent hair loss.

Determine which medication or combination of drugs suitable for you depends on your age, degree of hair loss and budget. For the choice of treatment and use of drugs you should be tested in the clinic, and only after that, doctor will be able to select and prescribe treatment, which is always individual.
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Propecia or how to avoid hair loss

May 24th, 2011

Doctors identify several forms of hair loss, however, the most common of them so-called androgenic alopecia. According to some experts about 90-95% of people suffering from hair loss, are experiencing exactly this form of alopecia. According to the research it was found that a key role in the development of androgen alopecia in both men and women assigned to male sex hormones.

Dihydrotestosterone (DHT) is one of the male hormones that play an important role in the development of the male body, but with increasing age leads to hair loss. Dihydrotestosterone (DHT) gradually “shrinks” the hair follicles, so that eventually they become unable to reproduce the visible hair.
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Sportsmen choose Propecia

November 12th, 2010

More than ten years ago, finasteride was approved for the treatment of baldness. Now there is another brand name of the drug – Propecia.

For a long time, scientists believed that the cause of male pattern baldness was only dihydrotestosterone (along with genetic factors), so after the release of Propecia no one hasn’t doubt that finasteride will be used for this purpose. It was a breakthrough for men suffering from hair loss. » Read more: Sportsmen choose Propecia