So you’re losing your hair... Nothing will make a man’s heart drop like that first morning when he wakes up, looks in the mirror, and sees shiny scalp in the spot where he once saw hair... It’s irreversible, and it’s something that all men have to accept sooner or later... Or is it? The causes of baldness are many... Forty percent of males are genetically pre-destined to be bald... The others go thin and bit more gradually. High testosterone levels contribute greatly to loss of hair... The use of anabolic steroids leads to hair thinning or loss in the vast majority of users... Men have been fighting baldness for hundreds of years... Herbal quackery held the reigns for many centuries, until recent advances in modern medicine have helped men combat this condition... Rogaine and Propecia are two popular compounds used to combat baldness... However, not everyone responds to their use, and they only work in certain sections of the scalp... Rogaine, for example, is only to be applied to the “vertex”, or the balding spot in the back of the head... Hair “plugs” are an alternative, used by plastic surgeons to actually graft new hair follicles to the scalp in patches... This procedure is invasive and unpredictable, and very often unnatural looking... There are all less effective ways, such as scalp massage treatments and of course, the obligatory scalp spray that always runs down the face of the user when the spotlight is the brightest! Science has been hard at work on a highly effective method of hair replacement that works in everyone without exception... A new technique, called hair cloning, might be the next big breakthrough... Hair cloning involves the creation – through cloning – of hair follicles in a laboratory... These follicles are then injected directly into the scalp of a balding man via needle. Currently, the procedure has shown to regrow hair in patches... However, researchers have yet to figure out how to make the hair grow back consistently, and as thick as it was in the first place... The receptors in the scalp are just too sensitive to testosterone... Additionally, steroid users will have an especially hard time growing hair, as the DHT levels in the body as a result of artificial testosterone converting, places their scalp receptors in a particularly precarious predicament... For the time being, men will have to choose between steroid use, and trying new ways to combat male pattern baldness, and not using steroids at all... But the cure is coming…
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Though there is no shampoo to date that has been FDA approved as a hair loss treatment, there is some scientific evidence to suggest that ketoconazole, an ingredient found in shampoos such as Nizoral and Revita may help combat hair loss due to its “weak” anti-DHT binding properties in the scalp to hair follicles.
Ketoconazole when ingested orally, inhibits the binding of androgens to receptors in the body which includes the binding of dihydrotestosterone (DHT) to hair follicle receptors. It is NOT recommended to take ketoconazole orally because it is a toxin that will most likely cause liver damage.
Because ketoconazole seems to work quickly (if at all) when applied topically compared to other DHT inhibitors such as Propecia, it is suspected that ketoconazole may combat alopecia due to it’s sebum removal properties. Sebum is a fatty substance that accumulates around the hair follicles in the scalp. It has been speculated that the removal of sebum may help unclog the hair follicle (similarly to unclogging a drain), improving blood supply and exposing it to more nutrition. Topical ketoconazole is known for removing and reducing sebum deposits.
