Hair Loss Treatment For Men

Hair Loss Treatment For Men

Nobody wants to lose their hair, especially if you’re only in your 20’s or 30’s! Losing your hair can cause emotional distress to men who are suddenly finding clumps of hair in their hands when they wash it.

Thankfully though nowadays there are several hair loss treatments for men that actually work, the problem is finding the best one to suit you. Take a look at the following hair loss treatment for men and hopefully soon you’ll have an idea about which one is right for you.

1. Ketoconazole

Found in some anti-dandruff shampoos as the active ingredient to treat dandruff! It is a well known anti-dandruff ingredient but as far as a hair loss treatment it has not been fully proven in tests so can not be marketed as a treatment for hair loss even though it is rapidly gaining recognition for this property.

Ketoconazole will soon also be available as a pill and a foam but until then for the shampoo, it is suggested that you leave the lather on your scalp for between 3 – 5 minutes before rinsing. Due to it’s ease of use and lack of expense, you could quite easily combine this with another hair loss treatment.

2. Copper Peptides

Copper peptides work by shortening the resting and falling out phases of your hair growth cycle in your hair follicles thereby increasing the amount of hair you have growing on your scalp at any one time. Copper peptides also work to block the conversion of testosterone to DHT, the compound which is overall responsible for causing hair loss in men. This makes it a two fronted attack on hair loss. Copper peptides are applied topically and so far no side effects have been found.

3. Hair Transplants

Obviously we have to mention hair transplants as no hair loss treatment for men article would be complete without a mention. Hair transplants work by removing live and bald resistant hair follicles from the back and sides of the head and relocating them to the affected bald areas. These transplanted hairs will typically continue to grow for life as they are genetically resistant to going bald.

Hair transplantation has come far from the days of Elton John but can still be quite painful. However it is constantly evolving and now rather than transplanting single hairs, a process that can take many months and much money to complete, hair grafts of about 4+ hairs are used to speed the process up.