Will Minoxidil Use Cure Your Baldness?

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 are hundreds of baldness cures on the internet, but only minoxidil and finasteride have been approved by the FDA to reverse thinning hair in men and the FDA has only approved minoxidil as a baldness treatment by women.

It therefore follows that these are the only 2 products which have scientific evidence of their effectiveness as baldness treatments which is sufficient to convince the FDA of their effectiveness, and only one, minoxidil, has sufficient scientific evidence of it’s effectiveness for women.

If any of the hundreds of other baldness cures advertised on the internet had sufficient scientific evidence behind it to prove to the satisfaction of the FDA that they work to reverse thinning hair you can bet the application would be made to the FDA as fast as possible. To get a baldness treatment successfully approved by the FDA could be likened to a licence to print money, and any company that was able to produce this evidence in support of their product would seek approval as fast as possible.

But whilst minoxidil is the only FDA approved treatment of thinning hair in both men and women, you do need to understand a few things about using minoxidil before you start using minoxidil to treat your baldness problem.

Clearly minoxidil works. If it didn’t the FDA would not have approved it. But this doesn’t mean that minoxidil works for everybody. There are cancer treatments which are proven to work, but they don’t work for everybody and it’s unrealistic to expect any baldness treatment, no matter how effective, to be any different. Minoxidil use may or may not reverse your thinning hair, though the chances that it will work are better than just about anything else.

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 judgement 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 the last thing to understand about using minoxidil for hair loss is that even if you have a successful result you will need to continue using minoxidil to maintain that result. If you discontinue minoxidil use all of the hair regrowth that you have achieved will gradually be lost again and your thinning hair will return.

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.

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