THE TRUE FACTS ABOUT MALE HAIR LOSS

Men experiencing hair thinning from male pattern thinning, commonly misinterpret naturally falling hairs as hair loss.

If your hair is falling and you are experiencing hair loss, you MUST seek professional advice from a Trichologist (a hair specialist) NOW!

Your Trichologist is qualified to provide safe, effective combination therapy treatments for Male Pattern Thinning.

Hair Loss and Hair Fall are signs something is not right in your body and has interrupted your hair cycle.

DON’T IGNORE THE SIGNS!

Common hair problems are the result of a combination of causes including an interrupted hair cycle or a hair cycle that has resumed, but is growing diffuse damaged hairs in place of the original terminal hairs.

Diffuse hair loss may be temporary and self correcting, or may require professional intervention to stop the loss and assist in the return of a normal hair cycle.

Male pattern hair loss or male pattern thinning is the most common cause of hair loss in men.

* Male Pattern Hair loss in men is not a result of stress.

* Male Pattern Hair Loss is not a result of wearing a hat or helmet.

* Male Pattern Hair Loss is not a result of hair styling in your younger years.

* Male Pattern Hair Loss is not directly a result of a health problem.

* Male Pattern Hair Loss is not related to your age.

* Male Pattern Hair Loss is not a result of excess sweat or oil on your scalp.

* Male Pattern Hair Loss is not a result of dandruff or a scaly, flaky scalp.

Male pattern hair loss or male pattern thinning is clinically called Androgenic Alopecia (AGA), and for a reason:

Male pattern hair loss or male pattern thinning is the result of hormones (Androgens) and a genetic (hereditary) predisposition, hence the name.

Androgenic Alopecia (also known as androgenetic alopecia or alopecia androgenetica) is a medical condition that is the most common cause of hair loss in men.

Male Pattern Hair Loss has a classic pattern of baldness. Hair will thin in a well-defined ‘typical’ pattern. The pattern of thinning can begin above the temples, at the recessions, through the top and at the crown of the scalp or in a combination of locations.

Male pattern Hair Loss is a gradual ‘thinning’ of the effected hairs. It is NOT actual ‘Hair Loss’.

Your hair DOES NOT fall out with male pattern thinning.

Male pattern thinning will result in the appearance of ‘hair loss’ if left unchecked as your terminal hairs miniaturize leaving vellus hairs and gradually complete loss of the hair and bulb can occur resulting in baldness.

Male pattern thinning left unattended can result in total loss of hair on the top of the head leaving a rim of hair, like a ‘horse shoe’, around the sides and back of the head. The horse shoe of hair left at the sides and back of the scalp will never be lost by men with male pattern hair loss.

Men who have male pattern hair loss, male pattern thinning, Androgenic Alopecia, Androgenetic Alopecia or Alopecia Androgenetica lose hair through thinning because your hair follicles have been programmed to become sensitive to the changing hormonal activity in your scalp at a predetermined hair cycle, it is your genetic predisposition. Specific hair follicles in the male pattern thinning area will become sensitive to your naturally occurring hormones.

Research has proven that male pattern hair loss is related to hormones called androgens, particularly an androgen called dihydrotestosterone (DHT).

Androgens are important for normal male sexual development before birth and during puberty. Androgens also have other important functions, such as regulating hair growth and sex drive.

Male pattern hair loss is caused by a genetic sensitivity of hair follicles to DHT, which causes the hair follicle to shrink or "miniaturize". A percentage of your testosterone is converted by 5-alpha reductase to DHT which binds to the androgen receptors around the growing hair bulb.

The DHT restricts blood carrying nutrients and oxygen, from reaching the hair bulb. Over time this effect prevents the hair bulb from maturing to a full size hair. A mature hair is termed a ‘Terminal Hair’ A miniaturized hair as a result of damage from DHT is termed a ‘Vellus Hair’. DHT will cause your terminal hair to gradually shrink to vellus hairs resulting in the appearance of a thinning of hairs in the effected locations on the scalp.

IMPORTANT POINTS TO REMEMBER:

* If you block DHT effectively, the hair will not thin any further.

* If you remove the effect of the DHT, the hair can reverse back from vellus to transitional.

* If you combine blocking DHT with removing the effect of DHT, reversal of vellus hairs back to terminal hairs can happen.

* If you can see a hair, even a tiny translucent vellus hair, it is alive and still has the bulb attached.

* If you have vellus hairs, you can transform them back to terminal hairs over time.

* Oral, natural DHT blockers, require your body to be in an alkaline state with a pH of 6.8 -7.2, to be effectively absorbed.

* If you don’t know what your pH is, don’t bother taking oral natural DHT blockers, you are wasting your time and money.

* If you use topical applications to remove the effect of DHT, the scalp must be correctly cleansed and prepared.

* If you are not correctly cleansing and preparing your scalp for topical treatments, you are wasting your time and money.

* If you don’t block DHT, topical applications to remove the effect of DHT will have limited results as you a fighting a losing battle against the internally developing DHT.

* Combination therapy will achieve the best results when treating Male Pattern Thinning.

PREVENT MALE PATTERN THINNING FIRST TIME - EVERY TIME!

Clinical Hair Loss can speed up male pattern thinning. 'Diffuse Hair Loss' and 'Telogen Effluvium' are common types of hair loss that can speed up male pattern thinning, due to a combination of hair loss and hair thinning on the same scalp.

Diffuse hair loss is a shedding of hairs over your entire scalp (not in patches, patterns or typical areas), and will result in more hairs (200 plus) falling or shedding, than normally expected in your individual daily hair cycle.

FACT - We all lose hair every day, 70 - 160 hairs per day in fact. This is a healthy hair cycle. If you are not losing your normal quota of hairs, it means your hair cycle is disrupted. A disrupted hair cycle is another hair problem. Hair loss and a disrupted hair cycle will contribute to the degree of severity and speed of male pattern thinning and limit treatment results if not correctly diagnosed and addressed.

CORRECTION OF THE HAIR CYCLE IS ESSENTIAL!

What is the significance of all of this?

Only the following treatments are going to work, and most successfully, in combination:

* Treatments that block, stop or inhibit the DHT, internally (orally) and externally (topically).

* Treatments that break down the existing DHT causing the hair follicle miniaturization.

* Treatments that stimulate hair growth.

* Treatments that correct, normalize and stabilize the hair cycle.

THERE IS NO IMMEDIATE COSMETIC SOLUTION FOR HAIR LOSS. WE MUST TREAT THE CAUSE AND ONLY THEN WILL RESULTS BE ACHIEVED.

Baldness and hair loss CAN be prevented and SUCCESSFULLY treated.

This formula is the holy grail of a successful hair loss approach and will eliminate up to 90 percent of the hair loss products and cures you see advertised.

ALWAYS REMEMBER:

* There is no 'miracle cure' for any hair loss, but with correct diagnosis and combination therapy, you can be confident you can arrest hair loss and better still, reverse hair loss.

DIAGNOSIS OF HAIR LOSS:

If you have not had a professional diagnosis, you may be treating the wrong hair loss problem, or you may only be treating one hair loss problem when in fact OTHER hair loss problems may be present.

ABSOLIQUE Trichology has developed the ‘HAIR HEALTH CHECK’ which is an informative diagnostic consultation session using a highly magnified microscope to scientifically diagnose your individual hair loss problem.

HAIR HEALTH CHECK shows the hair at scalp level so your Trichologist can assesses the population of terminal, transitional, vellus, diffuse damaged hairs and note empty follicles, over the entire scalp areas of your hair loss concern.

Carolyn Evans is a Trichologist at ABSOLIQUE HAIR HEALTH CLINIC. Carolyn has extensive experience and success treating men with hair loss problems.

The HAIR HEALTH CHECK will quickly diagnose your hair loss problem and determine which treatment would be most effective for your individual hair loss problem.

HAIR LOSS TREATMENTS - DO THEY WORK?

When you hear about a new hair loss treatment - the only things that matter are the ingredients, the results, and the supporting data.

* Do the ingredients address DHT?

* Do they stimulate hair growth?

* Do they correct an interrupted hair cycle?

If Hair Loss Treatments simply seek to disguise the problem, IT IS NOT A TREATMENT and will not have lasting beneficial effects.

When making decisions concerning Hair Loss Treatments, ALWAYS:

* get the ingredients list and;

* research studies on the ingredients

* look for genuine testimonials and photographic evidence that the treatments work

AND:

* don’t be blinded by flashy advertising and claims of miracle cures - there are none!

Your Trichologist is qualified to provide safe, effective combination therapy treatments for Male Pattern Thinning and Hair Loss.

As you’rer probably not a chemist, we have done the groundwork for you. ABSOLIQUE Trichology has hair loss treatments that have worked for our clients and most importantly, continue to work, with ingredients backed by results.

At ABSOLIQUE Trichology, we are focused on acquiring effective treatments to use in combination while continuing to research and test new and developing technologies.

If healthy hair and appearance is important to you, please take advantage of our research and treatments. They are supported by results. We have spent years consistently and painstakingly documenting and trialling many products, treatments and combinations.

IF IT IS NOT IN OUR PRODUCT CENTRE OR ON OUR TREATMENT MENU, IT IS PROBABLY NOT GOING TO WORK!

ABSOLIQUE Trichology Hair Loss Treatment products and information is available at our Product Centre and is obligation free!

HOW TO GET RESULTS?

If you haven’t figured it out yet, correct clinical diagnosis of your hair loss is a must!

A certified trichologist is the only qualified hair specialist who can correctly diagnose your hair loss.

Nine out of 10 male clients visiting ABSOLIQUE Trichology have associated diffuse hair loss or past diffuse damage in addition to their male pattern thinning.

Treatment of the male pattern hair loss WILL NOT be effective if you do not address the hair cycle problem!

REMEMBER, all is not lost.

The general rule of thumb is that hair can be EFFECTIVELY TREATED anywhere it is still growing. If the follicle is open IT IS POSSIBLE TO RE-ACTIVE HAIR GROWTH.

However, the longer the hair thinning is left untreated, the more chance the follicles will close as the DHT will eventually completely cut off the blood supply to the hair bulb.

Once the follicle has closed, the hair bulb is dead and CANNOT be restored.

Hair replacement will then become your ONLY hair loss solution.

ABSOLIQUE Trichology is also qualified and experienced in hair replacement and can provide you with lasting, completely undetectable non surgical hair replacement solutions.

There has never been a better time to get a Hair Loss Treatment Program written and prescribed by a certified hair loss specialist.

YOU HAVE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO LOSE!

And don’t be dissuaded by expensive cosmetic solutions. At ABSOLIQUE Trichology, we are highly trained and experienced in the fields of Hair Loss Treatments and Hair Replacement and WE GET RESULTS!

Contact Carolyn Evans on 07 3229 3242 or email for more information on non surgical hair replacement solutions.

MOST IMPORTANTLY, call 07 3229 3242 to book your HAIR HEALTH CHECK before it is too late!

This work is copyright 2011. Apart from any use permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, no part may be reproduced by any process, nor may any other exclusive right be exercised, without the permission of Carolyn Evans Absolique Hair Health Clinic Trichologist at Zash Fine Hairdressing 23-26 Gallery Level Brisbane Arcade 160 Queen St Mall Brisbane 07 3229 3242