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Mens Health:Trichologist Gary Heron – Splitting hairs: We sort fact from fiction when it comes to your hair. Can baldness be cured?

Splitting Hairs

We sort fact from fiction when it comes to your hair

Can baldness be cured?

“Take the legs of a newt, the fingernails of an insurance salesman…” Amid the bogus pills, internet potions and improbable scalp-weaves there’s genuine hope for the six million Brits afflicted by male pattern baldness (MPB). “Among the estimated 300,000 hair loss treatments available, two have been clinically proven to slow MPB and help re-growth,” says Gary Heron, trichologist at The Hair Centre in London. They are finasteride (available as the one-a-day private prescription pill Propecia) and minoxidil, an externally applied solution sold as Regaine. Research in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology  found 80% of men using finasteride retained more hair than placebo-takers, and two thirds actually re-grew hair. Roughly half of men using minoxidil staved off further balding, and 15% recorded re-growth.

Does baldness come from my Mum’s side?

Tony Soprano could pin plenty on his ma, but like any thinning man he can’t let the maternal side of the family take the full rap for his forehead expansion. “Genetics do play a major part in male pattern baldness, but the gene can come from either parent,” says Heron. Just because your Dad’s as bald as Britney in breakdown, it doesn’t mean you will be, but your grandma’s wispy moustache doesn’t mean she’s in the clear: “MPB can often skip a generation,” adds Heron.

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Do you have Hair Loss Problems, read our Hair Loss Help

Hear Trichologist Gary Heron On BBC “The Breakfast Show” Talking About Hair Loss, Baldness and Cures

The Andrew Peach Show

BBC Radio Berkshire 104.1, 104.4, 95.4 & 94.6 FM
‘People you Know, Travel you Trust.’

Every weekday BBC Radio Berkshire’s breakfast show presenter Andrew Peach focuses on a new subject for discussion.

Today Andrew Peach and Gary Heron discuss Hair Loss, Baldness and Cures.

Click on and listen:

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/berkshire/

Do you have Hair Loss Problems, read our Hair Loss Help

Hear Trichologist Gary Heron On BBC "The Breakfast Show" Talking About Hair Loss, Baldness and Cures

The Andrew Peach Show

BBC Radio Berkshire 104.1, 104.4, 95.4 & 94.6 FM
‘People you Know, Travel you Trust.’

Every weekday BBC Radio Berkshire’s breakfast show presenter Andrew Peach focuses on a new subject for discussion.

Today Andrew Peach and Gary Heron discuss Hair Loss, Baldness and Cures.

Click on and listen:

baldness_part_one

baldness_part_two

http://www.bbc.co.uk/berkshire/

Do you have Hair Loss Problems, read our Hair Loss Help

Who Is the Right Person To See About My Hair Loss Problem? Is It Your NHS Doctor? If Not Who?

To get advice and treatment for hair loss, you should always start with either your GP or a Trichologist.

Until very recently hair loss of any shape or form was regarded as a natural process to be endured. Your Doctor would be neither sympathetic nor understanding or helpful if you plucked up the courage to see him or her about your hair loss problem.

But things may be slowly changing. An increasing number of doctors realise that hair loss can have psychological consequences that significantly diminish quality of life, especially for both younger men and women alike, and they are becoming slightly more willing to take your hair loss problem more seriously than in the past.

If you are lucky enough to have an enlightened GP, by all means seek their advice at the very least, youll get a referral to a reliable Trichologist (although youll probably have to pay for any treatment you receive).

A Trichologist, by the way, is a hair specialist whose training covers both the cosmetic and the medical aspects of the subject.

Do you have Hair Loss Problems, read our Hair Loss Help