10/10/2008

The eternal enigma of baldness

God made a few perfect heads, and the rest, covered with hair. "This sentence, as it can be assumed, was pronounced by a famous bald, and that is that for a long time the irony-o-hair transplants were the only defenses hair loss in men who have counted.

More and more men, by resignation or by aesthetics, opt for the shaved head as the best solution. But this need not be so. "Hair loss is defined by three major characteristics," reported in Vichy Laboratories: "genetics, sex-linked linked to the place."

By sex-linked must understand the inflow of male hormones (testosterone) that tends to stunt the hair follicle by the effect of the enzyme 5-alpha reductase, testosterone is converted into dihydrotestosterone
Until the hair-growing of the future, there are treatments that allow delay or halt the fall in a significant number of cases: the finasteride (marketed under the name Propecia), Anti-first medicine that is taken orally, which acts by inhibiting action of DHT, the minoxidil, for topical use, which increases the hairiness, but does not produce the same results in all users; and Aminexil, Vichy Laboratories, which is absorbed by the roots of the hair and prevents collagen rigidificación that surrounds it, thereby contributing to its subject.

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