Written by Stuart Stevens | Thursday, 05 April 2007
There is quite a bit of advice that you can get about hair loss by looking through the internet and while this is a good thing at Ukmedix News we feel that we want to warn you that a fair bit of the stuff that you’ll find out there is in fact a load of rubbish. Many companies who sell hair loss medication that has not been subjected to clinical testing and trials often accompany their web sites with serious sounding articles about the causes of hair loss and especially male pattern baldness. Very often these articles tend to be poorly researched and are really only there to make you believe that the medicine being sold has been properly researched and also to beef up the website’s content so that search engines may find the site when doing hair loss searches.

For example we often come across stories saying that you can reverse the effects of male pattern baldness by a changing your diet and getting a good dose of protein. While we obviously encourage a good diet at Ukmedix News and we know that a healthy diet can make you look healthy it is not going to have any effect on the genetic roots of male pattern baldness. We have come across articles on some websites that say that by the simple fact of eating a good amount of say tuna or other fish you can make an impact on your hair loss but this is not the case at all.
If for example you were to eat a ridiculously unhealthy diet devoid of any sort of nutrients and protein it is true that maybe your hair would suffer but at the same time your teeth would probably also be falling out and you would look so ill that your hair loss would be the least of your problems. Male pattern baldness is a genetic and hereditary condition and cannot be cured by any form of special diet. The only way to cure male pattern baldness is through the use of medication such as Propecia.
