The moment that a man discovers he is losing his hair he is a different person. First of all, he is shocked that he is losing hair–no matter when it happens, whether he is young, middle-aged, or a little older. It’s a shock because you think it’s normal for other people, but it’s just not going to happen to you. Now it’s probably less of a shock if you have your dad balding earlier. But regardless, we have this youthful image that we’re younger than we really appear to be, so that’s just not on our mind.

Most men find their hair fall to be so disturbing because they associate it with getting old. And usually they’re in the prime of their life when they start. Clinical studies have shown that half of all men start thinning by the time they reach 30. And 85% have patent baldness by the time they reach their fifth decade. But surprisingly, one-fourth of those men who have inherited their hair loss (95%) actually start thinning before their twenty-first birthday. Obviously the younger you are when you experience hair fall, the more upsetting it is.

After the initial shock you then rush to find a treatment or cure on the Web to end this curse. And what do you find? A plethora of hair fall treatments ranging from topical solutions and foams to hair fall vitamins and shampoos. Of course, you can get a check-up with your physician to see if it’s an hormonal imbalance or stress like losing your job or experiencing a death in the family. And you can even see your dermatologist to check for your scalp and hair follicle condition.

Now you can search a whole lot of places to find hair fall solutions for men, but the truth of the matter is that while there may be a fantastic product and another not so, every body is unique. And so everyone is going to handle it differently. Something that works for someone over here may not work for someone over there. One person may have an allergy; another person needs something super strong. And for yet another just the smallest help does the trick in the beginning.

Okay, so what exactly did you inherit hair fall from? Well, you were born with a genetic predisposed sensitivity to a hormone called dihydrotestosterone (or DHT for short). You see because your brain easily detects this DHT, it over-reads it as something that is harmful. The brain reacts the same way when one has an allergy to something such as to hay or ragweed. When your brain detects the substance entering your nasal passages, it reads it as an attack or invasion. To protect you, the brain secretes its defensive mucous which makes you feel sick. So in reality the hay or ragweed is not making you sick; it is your own body causing you to feel that way.

So what does the brain tell that hair follicle to do in response to this sensitivity? Well, it tells the follicle to shrink, to actually close up, in order to protect itself so that it does not come in contact with this hormone, dihydrotestosterone.

So you will notice that as your hair starts to thin, the hair itself will get thinner, duller, weaker, and it will fall out sooner because the follicle is shrinking. It’s not getting the right nourishment to the hair strand. It’s not able to hold the hair strand in as long as it would the other hair. And then you’ve also got some hair follicles that are way more advanced, so they’re completely closing up. And of course, when they close up, there is no way to hold the hair strands in the hair follicles.

The most common way to reverse hair fall in men is by blocking the DHT in the first place. That way your brain doesn’t tell your hair follicles to shrink. Minoxidil is an ingredient approved by the FDA to actually block DHT. In clinical studies it has proven as a single ingredient to reverse hair fall in 80 percent of it’s users.

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