Whether you are suffering from hereditary baldness or alopecia areata, the key to your successful treatment is to identify the most suitable remedy for your current condition. Although there is no ultimate cure available for most of the known hair loss conditions, some treatments can help you slow down the balding process or even recover a portion of the lost hair. Professional consultation is strongly recommended to start with. Dermatologists will typically prescribe medicinal treatments such as minoxidil and finasteride to hereditary hair loss sufferers and steroid injections, topical anthralin, topical immunotherapy or PUVA for alopecia areata. All of these medicinal treatments are associated with causing negative side effects that many hair loss sufferers are unable or unwilling to put up with.

A patient’s fear of medicinal therapies is frequently exploited by quack manufacturers, who tend to overemphasise the potential negative side effects of medicinal treatments, in order to lure you into their scam. This does not automatically imply that all non-medicinal hair loss treatments are scams but the vast majority of them are ineffective to most hair loss sufferers and are solely designed to earn money for their originators. Natural hair loss treatments are sold as cosmetics and thus are less well regulated than pharmaceuticals, which enables their marketers to exaggerate their potential benefits. The growing popularity of natural hair loss treatments stems, besides the widespread belief that they are free from negative side effects, also from the general assumption that they are more effective than medicinal drugs. However, none of these assumptions has ever been confirmed by scientific evidence. No herbal extract or naturally-derived substance has been clinically proven to promote new hair growth. The few existing studies were conducted on rodents or in vitro; or as very small, sponsored, human studies. Admittedly, there are some promising substances of natural origin but all of them require further examination in order to establish safe dosages and efficient delivery systems.

Given the fact that more than 90% of all commercially available hair loss remedies are ineffective to the majority of hair loss sufferers, with only a few proven to work to some extent, you need to look for references for any new product you intend to buy. You are encouraged to visit Dody’s blog for hair loss product reviews and do not be ashamed to use the REVIEW IT function to share your experiences of the products you have used.