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The Most Common Cause of Hair Loss – And How to Stop It

by Harley Street Hair Clinic on Nov 22, 2010

Hair loss , a condition that affects thousands of UK residents in one way or another, is caused by a limited number of things. Almost all cases of pattern baldness are the results of the over production or mutation of a single male hormone – testosterone, which morphs into the androgen DHT, or dihydrotestosterone. DHT prevents the human scalp from forming new hairs to replace the old ones, which fall out on an average life cycle of anything between a few days and six months.

So – if hair loss is so common, and so simply caused, how can it be so difficult to reverse or treat? Well, the good news is this: it isn’t. It used to be but now it’s not. That’s because older techniques relied on uncertain information, and were bent towards less guaranteed methods of treatment. Modern hair treatments – which are split broadly into the categories of minor surgery and medication, are prescribed with a much better idea of the causes of the hair loss being treated. That...Read More >>



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Modern Hair loss medication really works. That is the message being put out by top level hair clinics like the Harley Street Hair Clinic – which, as Britain’s most respected institution for hair loss research and treatment, packs a pretty hefty weight behind its opinions. The general consensus is this: modern research into the causes of hair loss has led to enough of an understanding of the underlying structures of balding ailments that medications designed to treat them really do work.

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