What Are You Able To Do About Male Hair Loss?

If you’re troubled by male hair loss, you have three choices. You can embrace it, hide it or treat it.

Embracing Male Hair Loss

I wonder who was the first bald-headed man - Did Noah have hair? Or is male hair loss strictly a postdiluvian occurrence? Whatever the case, we do know there have been hairless guys around for millennia. Consider all those Roman statues—most of those men were bald.

Not everyone thinks male hair loss is a tragedy. Some of the sexiest gentlemen around today are bald. Think Sean Connery, Bruce Willis, Lou Gossett, Jr. or Patrick Stewart. What about Lex Luther and Professor X?

One of the things you can do about male hair loss is to shave what little hair you've left and go for the chrome dome look. It’s actually quite sexy.

Hiding Male Hair Loss

I’m not being judgmental, and I sure do not want to hurt anybody’s feelings, but this is the least attractive realizable alternative for dealing with male hair loss. Bald-headed is sexy; comb-overs are not.

I suppose you could make a case that hiding male hair loss is connected to power. Look at the dreadful toupees some of the news anchors put on. They are pretty powerful men. Both Gaius Julius Caesar and Napoleon wore comb-overs. I guess some men would rather be powerful than sexy.

Treating Male Hair Loss

A lot of gentlemen like their hair and do not want to lose it. They prefer to treat male hair loss.

90% of men who go through hair loss have androgenic alopecia, or male pattern baldness. It’s caused by a build up of dihydrotestosterone (DHT) around the hair follicles, which kills the follicle and causes hair to fall out.

DHT is a by-product of testosterone (which gives credence to the bald guys are sexy hypothesis), but some men have a genetical immunity to the effects of DHT on their hair. Those guys don’t go bald. The mother gives the gene for DHT resistance, so if your mom’s father is bald, you could go bald, too.

Treatments for male hair loss work either to raise hair growing, or to block DHT.

Minoxidil (Rogaine® is an nonprescription treatment for hair loss in either men or women. It works by supporting hair growth. You may still lose as much hair as ever, but you should (you hope) grow it back faster.

Propecia is a prescription treatment only for male hair loss. It works by stopping DHT. Avodart, a medication used to treat benign prostatic hypertrophy, also blocks DHT, and some physicians prescribe it to treat male hair loss.

Saw palmetto is an herbal treatment that is also believed to block DHT. It can be bought at numerous drug or natural food stores.

Whatever medicine you take, if you stop taking it, your hair will fall out again. For a more stable solution, you can have a surgical hair transplant, where your own naturally growing hair is transplanted from one part of your body to your head.

Whether you choose to embrace it, hide it or treat it, you are able to do something about male hair loss. You just have to select if you want to be sexy, powerful or beautiful.