Does Propecia Really Work

Propecia should never be used by pregnant women as it can cause neonatal anomalies. Long term Use of Propecia has caused a side effect for some men of lack of sex drive and impotency.

Both men and women find hair loss to be a sensitive issue with them, we continue to wait for medical science to give us a clear reason for the cause of hair loss and a remedy that will work. Many of the top magazines tell us that one of the main reasons for hair loss is from our hormones and genetics, and that male pattern baldness is seen in almost 95 percent of all people that deal with hair loss. The main cause of male pattern baldness is played by DHT, Propecia is used to control DHT. Many people have reported that their hair loss has stop after using Propecia.

When our body holds to much DHT, our hair follicles start to shrink and become thinner until the follicles are so small that the hair can no longer be replaced and permanently falls out. Early in our life DHT is the main hormone we use in developing our body. But as we grow older too much DHT to our scalps will completely shrivel our hair follicle and needs to be blocked.

With excess DHT being identified as one of the culprits of hair loss in research that has show that men dealing with male pattern hair loss have a much higher level of DHAL in their scalps. If you remember our hair has a normal cycle of three phases they are- Expansion (growing), Dormant (then falling out) , and new expansion (new hair). The problem with too much DHAL speeds up dormant phase and shortens growing phase. the end results is a thinning of hair on our scalp.

In short here is how it works, DHAL will bind with the our follicle receptor which are located on our scalp, Propecia will help prevent the transition of testosterone into DHT this in turn will help preventing hair loss. Propecia (Finasteride) also called Proscar when it first came out was widely used to help control hair loss because of its ability to block the enzyme 5 alpha-reductase which help reduces the DHT level in the scalp. Most doctors only prescribe Propecia to help stop your hair loss and not for re-growing new hair.

One of the downside to Propecia, is it doesn’t seem to aid at all in restoring hair or re-growth in the frontal areas. Propecia seems to produces great results when it has been used with Minoxidil 5% especially in the re-growth of hair around the crown area of the scalp. The frontal area of the hairline can only be restored with hair by means of a hair transplant surgery. You also should be aware that hair loss prevention using Propceia works best for older men, and the best results are achieved if your balding has taken place for less than 5 years.