Will Minoxidil Use Really Reverse Your Thinning Hair Problem?
Author: Peter Clark Date posted: Nov 22, 2009 Article views: 102 Wordcount: 526 Ezine Ready
It is estimated that 50 percent or more of men will suffer from some form of baldness in their lives, generally the result of the inherited condition known as male pattern baldness, or androgenetic alopecia. Minoxidil is one of 2 products approved by the FDA for use as a baldness treatment in men. But will minoxidil use work for you?
There's dozens if not hundreds of baldness cures on the Internet. Apart from minoxidil and finasteride none of them are approved by the FDA for use as a baldness treatment, and minoxidil is the only product approved by the FDA for use as a balding treatment by women.
It therefore follows that these are the only 2 products which have scientific evidence of their effectiveness as baldness treatments which is sufficient to convince the FDA of their effectiveness, and only one, minoxidil, has sufficient scientific evidence of it's effectiveness for women.
If any of the other hundreds of so-called miracle cures for baldness on the internet had sufficient scientific evidence to convince the FDA that they were a successful baldness treatment you can be absolutely sure that the company that manufactured them would apply to the FDA immediately for approval. Getting a product approved as a baldness treatment will make millions, so if they were able to successfully achieve it they would apply for approval today.
Minoxidil is the single product that the FDA has approved for use in cases of thinning hair in men and women. But before you start minoxidil use you need to understand a few things.
Clearly minoxidil use works to reverse thinning hair or it would not be approved. But that does not mean that it works for everybody. Just like so many other treatments for so many other health conditions, the results that you get from the treatment will vary from person to person. It is unrealistic to expect minoxidil or any other hair loss treatment to work for everybody, just as it is unrealistic to expect cancer treatments, which are proven to work, to work for everybody.
Secondly you must understand that if you start minoxidil use to treat a hair loss problem you must commit to a minimum amount of time before you make any judgment about whether it is working for you. 2 months is not sufficient time to use a product before deciding whether it is working. You should commit to a minimum of 6 months and preferably 12 months before you make any decisions about whether minoxidil use is reversing your thinning hair.
And the last thing to understand about using minoxidil for hair loss is that even if you have a successful result you will need to continue using minoxidil to maintain that result. If you discontinue minoxidil use all of the hair regrowth that you have achieved will gradually be lost again and your thinning hair will return.
Whilst minoxidil has been proven to work to reverse thinning hair in men and women, it has now been combined with a range of other essential hair nutrients to increase the chance that minoxidil will work for you. However you need to start using the product with realistic expectations.
