Hair loss causes great stress and anxiety...

Toby Young who is a regular writer for many UK newspaper and magazines has recently penned an article for the Daily Mail in which he spoke out against the way that scientists and researchers are claiming that they have invented a “cure” for baldness. He said that male pattern baldness is not an illness, that there is nothing wrong with him, that he is perfectly happy being bald and he doesn’t need to or want to grow back his hair.

There is a lot of talk in the press at the moment following the announcement that a team of scientists in America have been able to read grow hair on skin that was previously without hair follicles. The research that was done on mice is still at early stages and the likely to actually be put to commercial use for many years to come. However a company called Follica has been set up to manage the commercial interest for the new discovery.

We like to get excited about any new hair loss research and we frequently publish articles about new discoveries that are promoted in the press. The problem with many of these new discoveries is that they are over hyped in order to raise funding for the companies and scientists involved and very few of them actually come to be established as commercial hair loss remedies.

It is in the interest of companies promoting hair loss medication to define male pattern baldness as some sort of sickness as it gives the impression therefore that men who do not have a full mane of hair have something wrong with them. The same marketing tactic is also used to market erectile dysfunction medication in that older men who can't have sex as often as they used to when they were younger are deemed to be suffering from an illness.

At Ukmedix News we believe that the actual falling out of the hair of a man suffering from androgenetic alopecia is not an illness and does not affect the health, however if the hair loss causes great stress and anxiety it will affect the well being and confidence of the man and this can be defined as an illness in itself. So in fact when a doctor prescribes a hair loss drug like Propecia in a sense he is prescribing a drug to enable a man to feel happy about himself and to stop being anxious and stressed. Maybe Propecia should be categorised as anti anxiety and anti depressant drug instead of a hair loss remedy?