Any Luck With A Natural Holistic Approach To Hair Loss?

[meetjoeblack]

I met a natural pathic doctor when I was seeking a cure to acne. I ended up using Accutane which lead to male pattern baldness. I am curious if there's any success with natural remedies for hair?

If I needed powerful drugs for acne, I imagine hair won't be too much different.

 

[davesmith420]

You can't fight nature with nature.

Finasteride and minoxidil are the main things that we have to combat male pattern baldness.

 

[Retinoid]

Finasteride is equivalent to oral antibiotics for Acne and Minoxidil is equivalent to benzoyl peroxide. Together they work well for most people. There is no slam dunk like Accutane is with acne at this time. And just like benzoyl peroxide and oral antibiotics they only work as long as you use it and sometimes, just like Acne, the hair loss can get out of control of these treatments...except there is no Accutane.

The 'natural' treatment approach is not really natural. When you are applying rosemary essential oil you are applying a very concentrated amount of the volatile oils...not drinking rosemary tea. There is science behind this for hair loss, for example.

The problem with ''natural" treatments is that there is rarely large and long term studies due to lack of funds and you then get bombarded by anecdotes on message boards by people who either don't stick to the stuff, say it is working when it is not (it feels like it is working...) or say it is giving some side effect that is unrelated. Natural treatments is a rabbit hole but to say they are not effective is not accurate. Again, you are taking things not actually found in nature, they are standardized and highly concentrated and are very similar to drugs.

Also Accutane will not cause male pattern baldness...it can cause overall hair thinning and diffuse thinning but would not call for a DHT blocker while minoxidil may help.

 

[Afro_Vacancy]

The 'natural' treatment approach is not really natural. When you are applying rosemary essential oil you are applying a very concentrated amount of the volatile oils...not drinking rosemary tea. There is science behind this for hair loss, for example.

The problem with ''natural" treatments is that there is rarely large and long term studies due to lack of funds and you then get bombarded by anecdotes on message boards by people who either don't stick to the stuff, say it is working when it is not (it feels like it is working...) or say it is giving some side effect that is unrelated. Natural treatments is a rabbit hole but to say they are not effective is not accurate. Again, you are taking things not actually found in nature, they are standardized and highly concentrated and are very similar to drugs.

Quoted for truth.

 

[whatevr]

The most natural you are going to get is S-Equol, it's made by bacteria from soy isoflavones, normally in your gut. But you will have to get it in a powder form from an unnatural chemical process, mix it with high purity ethanol (unnatural) and distilled water ( also unnatural) so that you can naturally apply it to your naturally balding head.

In the end I am not sure how natural all of that is.

 

[The Balding Boulder]

First and foremost, finasteride and minoxidil (to a lesser extent) are fundamental to any hair loss regime, as these are the only two FDA-approved products proven to slow down and even regrow hair (if you're lucky).

Although not anywhere near as effective, what you eat and drink may have some kind of impact on how quickly you bald. It's very complex, because each and every individual is different, and what one person reacts to well — another gets no benefit from.

Alongside the two clinically proven products I've mentioned, I use Alpecin Caffeine Shampoo, biotin tablets and drink a lot of green tea. Can't say any miracles have happened, because they haven't. At best, it has given me a negligible improvement. I'm coming up to the two year mark of my hair loss regime now, and looking at the photos from May 2016 to now, I see a very small and subtle improvement. I can be pretty confident in saying there is stabilisation in my hair loss, but the ultimate thing I will need is that first hair transplant to get back some of that lost hair on top.