About Finasteride Propecia
About Finasteride Propecia
In the early 1990’s finasteride, a prescription
medication approved in tablet form for use to treat enlarged prostate
glands, was discovered to have the “side effect” of preventing
hair loss. With extensive clinical studies, it was determined that
even at 1/5th the dosage used to treat prostate conditions, finasteride
tablets can have a powerful effect on stopping male pattern hair
loss, and with continuing use, there can be hair regrowth. In 1994
Dr. Panagotacos began using finasteride on himself. in 1998
the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved finasteride as
a hair loss treatment, under the brand name Propecia. Now, with
prescription Propecia available in convenient tablet form, he finds
that many of his hair transplant patients choose to also take finasteride
to “keep what they have”. Dr. Panagotacos requires
an examination before prescribing Propecia tablets. Propecia
is for men only.
Some time in the future we will be able
to use gene therapy to change hair follicle sensitivity to DHT,
and prevent hair loss in the first place. Perhaps even sooner we
will be able to clone certain of our own hair follicles having reduced
sensitivity to DHT (typically those on the back and sides of the
head). With cloning we could create an unlimited supply of “permanent”
hairs to replace those that were genetically programmed to stop
growing new hairs. Presently we can cut a hair follicle in half,
and sometimes get the two halves to each grow back their missing
halves. When successful, each follicle will grow a new hair. This
is in essence a two-for-one deal. But often one of the halves does
not survive, and sometimes only thin hairs grow from the surviving
half. Eventually we will be able to grow entire follicles from a
few cells cultured in a test tube. This will allow an unlimited
supply of thick growing hair for everyone.
Dr. Gho of The Netherlands has already begun working on the cloning
of hair follicles from stem cells. He first reported new follicles
from stem cells in 1998. It is the opinion of Dr. Panagotacos that
it will be a couple of decades before patients benefit from this
research.
Until bravest researchers finish their work on better hair loss remedy’s there is Propecia to take care of your baldness.Available at our online pharmacy - only fda medication.
