A new report in the Ukmedix newsroom says that coffee could be the answer to Male Pattern Balding. The bad news is that you’d have to drink around 60 cups every day for it to have a noticeable effect on your scalp!

Apparently according to the new research caffeine can stimulate the hair follicles on the head in men and thus make them more resistant to falling out. More research is being done to see whether a treatment can be formulated so that the caffeine is applied directly to the scalp and thus make it a viable treatment. The money that pours into hair loss research is significant especially as the Male Pattern Balding problem is found in half of all men in the UK over the age of fifty.

Research has shown that men who go bald in the UK have more of a problem with balding than many other European men who are more comfortable with their hair loss. Hair loss has been known to foster depression in some men and loss of self-esteem.

The research on caffeine that has been reported on in the International Journal of Dermatology explains that caffeine actually blocks the dihydrotestosterone (DHT) that is the principal reason for male pattern balding in men.

A German company called Alpecin that sponsored the research looked at individual hair follicles of men who suffered from MPB by perform scalp biopsies on them and then had them placed in caffeine rich solutions, The hair follicles that were placed in these solutions had a better growth rate then the other hairs and much better than those placed in a testosterone solution.

The research is still at early stage but could maybe one day develop into an effective hair loss remedy to help men with Male Pattern Balding. At Ukmedix we are always on the lookout for new hair loss procedures and we maintain an open mind about new advances. At present the drug that is the most effective and the most clinically proven remedy for Male Pattern Balding is Propecia made from a drug called finasteride that blocks the formation of DHT in a man’s scalp.