These days only surgical therapies are used while there is a wide and somewhat confusing range of non-surgical treatments. People who don’t want to receive surgical treatment have countless non-surgical treatment options. Rogaine and Propecia are perhaps the most popular medical hair loss treatments. Similarly, saw palmetto’s dried fruits and He Shou Wu (also known as Fo-Ti) are those natural ingredients that are often used in different alternative hair loss remedies.
The non-surgical hair-loss treatments can be principally broken down into alternative and medicinal treatments and so far the methods of application are concerned, they are divided into topicals, oral some others like LaserComb. etc. Regardless to the above noted breakdowns, hair growth treatments work by stimulating hair growth or blocking the action of dihydrotestterone that is also known as anynandrogens.
Propecia
Dihydrotestosterone (DHT) is a biologically-active byproduct of the metabolism of male hormone testosterone and it is also considered the basic reason of male as well as female hereditary pattern baldness. DHT miniaturizes the hair because the hair gets thinner and finer with every new cycle of hair growth till the hair sacs decline to produce other hair at all. It is still not known what is the exact mechanism by which DHT acts on hair sacs but under its trade name Propecia, Finasteride is known better as the only tested and FDA-approved antianderogen which is used to treat male pattern baldness. It prevents the occurrence of DHT in the hair scalp. After the launch of Propecia, there are many other drugs and therapies that claim antiandrogen activity.
