Feb 11
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Stress Drug May Offer Hope for Balding Men
Hey guys, Jill here with a story on a new drug that helps to block stress and also may offer hope for men who are balding or who are just starting to lose their hair because of hormones in the body called DHT, which is a testosterone based drug. Testosterone is actually the reason that mostly men have issues with balding, but women can deal with hair loss as well.
Balding and male pattern hair loss can be an excruciating occurrence for men at any age. Let’s face it – hair just makes us look nicer. It’s been coiffed, buzzed, gelled, flipped, hatted and more for years and years, and different hairstyles have come and gone for men through the ages.
Hair can make a man look darn sexy if he does the right stuff with it, that’s for sure!
Well, science and all its great inventions and innovations is certainly working very hard on trying to come up with a solution to the problem of male hair loss, and there may be a new drug on the horizon for this common issue.
The funny thing is, researchers only stumbled on the hair regrowth aspect of the drug by mistake. They were actually studying the drug for something else, and noticed that the mice responded strongly to the drug in growing hair back. Actually, 100% of the mice in the study responded to the drug when it came to abundant hair growth.
The mice actually had quite a dramatic hair growth in fact, making this a hopeful wonder drug for the next best thing in hair growth products for men – and perhaps hair growth products for women as well.
The stress related hormone that the drug blocks is called CRF, and some mice and some men (no pun or book reference intended he he), tend to over-produce this hormone, and they also therefore become more prone to extreme hair loss and male pattern balding, which men are more prone to anyway.
The drug not only helped to grow back lost hair that had been there before in the mice, but it also helped to prevent hair loss. Hmm, they may be on to something here. I smell a potential blockbuster drug!
However, don’t get too excited as we all know how slow the FDA is to approve new drugs, and this one sounds like it has not even made it into the approval pipeline yet. We shall see!
