Hair loss is a problem for many men. "Until the 80th Age affects around 80 percent of all men more or less, "says Natalie Garcia Bartels (center of excellence for hair at the Charité in Berlin). A loss of up to 100 hairs a day is normal.
What goes beyond that applies as hair loss. "Most of these are to hereditary hair loss, known as androgenetic alopecia in men of 20 Of age can use. "In order to stop the hair loss to resort to two funds, the effect is proven by studies.
To the men suffering hair loss to form the various views, some of which border on myths. Surely this is also the fact that doctors do not even know anything about the slow hair loss. In fact, the disease is so widespread that health insurance companies do not even classify as a disease and therefore assume no treatment costs. The research is very advanced in recent years. "Hair loss is no longer destiny," said Professor Hans Wolff (expert in dermatology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich).
Many young men are already affected by hair loss
Cause of Hair Loss Research
According to current knowledge, the "androgenetic alopecia" of man is based on a system-dependent sensitivity to the hair shafts under the skin to male sex hormones (androgens). "There is an enzyme that converts the male hormone testosterone into dihydrotestosterone, whereas the hair follicle turn develop a strong sensitivity.", This explains the endocrinologist Gerd Hofmann of Munich. The shafts of the hair follicles, which are located under the skin. The follicles gradually wither away, the hair lose its thickness and length, and are always finer and thinner, finally, a bald forms. Always the hair above the ears and at the lower back of the head are preserved because they are resistant to the sex hormone.
Means to stop the hair loss
"First, there is the active ingredient finasteride, which is actually used in high doses for the treatment of prostate," explains Natalie Garcia Bartels, the current findings. "The inhibits the enzyme that converts testosterone into dihydrotestosterone harmful to the hair root." This prescription drug must be taken daily. Currently it is available in tablet form. However, as previously mentioned, the costs must be borne by each itself, since the insurance companies they will not notice. "If you stop the treatment, the hair loss will go back to the rule as before."
For external use, the active ingredient Minoxidil is provided. This material was originally developed as high blood pressure means. "This tincture should be applied twice a day," Garcia Bartels says. While finasteride can be stopped at 80 percent of users of hair loss, the success rate is the minoxidil at about 70 percent of all cases.
Clean up with fairy tales for hair loss
Another effective hair growth there is not currently active. Also cosmetic products that contain caffeine and creatine or other alleged agents of aloe to zinc, no, or at most a limited impact on investment-related hair loss. Very many of the highly touted, miracle cure 'remain any promise guilty.
However, far fewer external factors affect the hair loss, as most men believe. Not wearing a hat or a hair toupees still frequent washing or combing hair faster with a bald head. Not even stress or a "wrong" diet affect how fast or slow hair to fall out. Multivitamin supplements, iron tablets, gelatin capsules, silica, and all the Hefetabletten else offered and highly touted, remedies' are also ineffective in hereditary baldness.
To be learning to baldness
In an American study by Professor Albert E. Man (management professor at the University of Pennsylvania), his character is a bald carrier itself can be shown that the image of a bald man is often associated with "hyper-masculinity". From film and television you often know action hero with bald heads. In the study, "Shorn Scalps and Perceptions of Male Dominance" Prof. man showed subjects pictures of men with and without hair. Respondents linked with the bald-headed men terms like "dominant", "greater than" and "more". As the result of the study, published in the journal "Social Psychological and Personality Science," writes.
Probably it would be better if a man learns to stand on his bald head, says the psychologist Roland Henss from Saarbrücken. For a bald head have also advantages. "Studies have shown that men are not only an average of three to four years older bald appreciated, as they are actually bald men are usually regarded as a family man and faithful husbands," says Henss.
