Red pepper (Capiscum) - a popular folk remedy that involves application of a red pepper poultice to scalp to act as a skin irritant. This draws blood and nutrients to scalp and encourages release of histimines to stimulate cell division and hair regrowth.

Safflower oil (Carthamus tinctorious) - Eastern health practitioners believe that safflower oil applied to scalp acts as a vasolidator that dilates blood vessels. This allows more blood to deliver nutrients to hair follicle thus creating an environment conducive to hair regrowth.

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4. This leaves soft, fine hairs that provide poor scalp coverage.

5. The growth phase becomes shorter until these soft hairs are lost for good.

Excessive hair loss can occur at any age and may even stop only to start again. As time progresses process of hair loss accelerates leading to its logical conclusion.

Understanding this process helps to explain how currently available treatments for male pattern baldness work. Propecia is one of only two FDA-approved hair loss treatments and it works by interfering with process outlined above. In brief, Propecia inhibits formation of DHT in system thus slowing down and eventually stopping adverse effects of DHT on hair follicle.

Most of non-drug, commercially prepared products operate on a similar basis by utilizing natural ingredients that attempt to interfere with production of DHT. Presently most popular natural ingredient is saw palmetto although some products combine this with other herbs such as pygeum, stinging nettle and green tea.

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