It’s a guy’s worst fear, looking in the mirror and seeing that the luxurious locks on the top of your head are starting to thin or recede back towards your scalp.
But don’t panic just yet. Your hair may be running away, but you don’t need to. Male pattern baldness is inherited, but your father’s bald head doesn’t need to be yours.
Propecia, a drug on the market that’s older than you think, (1992) is as close are we currently are to the ever sought after “hair loss cure”. It may not be a magical cure, but it certainly has a long history of research and medical studies to back up the claims that it can, in fact, reduce or often completely stop balding in its tracks (see FDA approval studies).
Propecia or Finasteride (It’s non branded name) is available by prescription from a doctor in Australia. There is also a horde of websites claiming to sell the prescription medication online. Many of these places are legitimate and many are not, so we recommend doing your research if you are one of those “I’m not going to the doctor” types.
Wayne Rooney, Bradley Cooper, James Nesbit and many other celebrities are taking the pills at the first sign of hair loss, and if you are a man, chances are you should too. It has FDA approval, a league of studies behind it, and is prescribed by a doctor.
Gone are the days of rubbing in miracle paste that is little more than a smelly pomade into your hair, there is finally a way to beat balding that has research behind it. Note: Pomade should actually work better after using Propecia, since you will have more hair to use it with.
Propecia doesn’t interact with any other drug, and all you have to do is pop a pill in the morning and get on your way. It’s the same as taking a multivitamin the morning.
It does have a small risk of sexual side effects that come along with it, but these are very rare and usually reversible by stopping the medication.
If you are wondering how it works, here is a quick explanation. Your hair is actually under attack. Well, sort of, testosterone in your body is converted into DHT (Dihydrotestosterone) which attacks your hair follicles. This conversion of testosterone is due to a little enzyme called 5-alpha-reductase. Propecia goes in and destroys this 5-alpha-reductase, leaving your testosterone unharmed, but in no shape to attack your hair. If you are worried about this destroying testosterone, fear not, no damage will be done to your hormones, no decrease in muscle tissue or anything else related to testosterone shortages has ever been reported with Propecia.
So if you are looking at yourself in the mirror and wondering, “Am I balding”, don’t take the chance, make your way to one of Australia’s many dermatologists and get an appointment, it may just save your hair.
