Is It Realistic To Expect Minoxidil Use To Cure Your Thinning Hair

by Peter Albertson on 26/11/2009

Estimates are that over 50 percent of men will suffer from thinning hair during their lives and this is usually a result of inheriting the condition called androgenetic alopecia, or what is commonly known as male pattern baldness. There are 2 products approved by the FDA as baldness treatments for men and minoxidil is one of those products. But will minoxidil use reverse your thinning hair?

There’s dozens if not hundreds of baldness cures on the Internet. Apart from minoxidil and finasteride none of them are approved by the FDA for use as a baldness treatment, and minoxidil is the only product approved by the FDA for use as a balding treatment by women.

Therefore it makes complete sense that there are only 2 products which are proven to work to reverse thinning hair in men, and only one of the these is proven to reverse thinning hair in women.

If any of the other hundreds of so-called miracle cures for baldness on the internet had sufficient scientific evidence to convince the FDA that they were a successful baldness treatment you can be absolutely sure that the company that manufactured them would apply to the FDA immediately for approval. Getting a product approved as a baldness treatment will make millions, so if they were able to successfully achieve it they would apply for approval today.

Minoxidil is the single product that the FDA has approved for use in cases of thinning hair in men and women. But before you start minoxidil use you need to understand a few things.

Clearly minoxidil use works to reverse thinning hair or it would not be approved. But that does not mean that it works for everybody. Just like so many other treatments for so many other health conditions, the results that you get from the treatment will vary from person to person. It is unrealistic to expect minoxidil or any other hair loss treatment to work for everybody, just as it is unrealistic to expect cancer treatments, which are proven to work, to work for everybody.

The second thing to understand is that if you are considering using minoxidil to treat your thinning hair then even if it works for you you need to give it sufficient time to start working. It is not sufficient to use minoxidil for 2 months and then decide that it’s a scam. You need to commit to 6 months use at a minimum and preferably 12 before you make any judgment about whether minoxidil works for you. It is too easy to decide that it’s not working and to discontinue minoxidil use too early.

And finally you need to understand, before commencing minoxidil use, that if you have a successful result you need to continue using the product or the results will be lost. Your thinning hair will return over time if you discontinue minoxidil use.

There is no doubt that using minoxidil works to reverse baldness in men as well as women, but you need to have realistic expectations and understand that this does not mean it will work to reverse your thinning hair. To increase the likelihood that minoxidil used for you there is now a new product which combines minoxidil together with a range of essential hair nutrients which has been found to increase the effectiveness of minoxidil use for thinning hair.

If, after understanding what using minoxidil means, you’re interested in finding out which product combines minoxidil with essential hair nutrients then visit my website.

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