You’ve likely seen magazine ads, radio commercials and TV promoting miracle treatments for hair loss. Unfortunately, that is what’s needed for those treatments to work – a miracle.
The most common cause of hair loss in both men and women is genetic, and it’s called androgenetic alopecia, also known as male pattern balding and female pattern hair loss. In fact, heredity accounts for 95% of all the cases of baldness (alopecia) in the United States. In androgenetic alopecia, hormones related to testosterone (also called androgens) cause hair follicles to have a shorter than minimal growth phase, resulting in hair shafts that are abnormally short and thin.
