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Propecia may sound like a fancy girls name but when it comes to dealing with hair loss she is definitely the Queen of hair restoration medications. Of all the hair loss products on the market there are only two medications that are approved by the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) as clinically proven to promote hair growth and hair regrowth while reversing baldness.

Finasteride or Propecia is one, and Minoxidil (Rogaine or Foam Rogaine) is the other and these are the only medications that the FDA has approved and only after very extensive clinical trials.

What is Baldness?
Baldness and hair loss is caused by testosterone, and in particular a version of it known as dihydrotestosterone or DHT, the male hormone that makes us look and sound like guys. The trouble with testosterone and DHT is that after we become adults they start having a very different set of effects on our body. You may start noticing hair grow out of your nose or out of your ears – why it does that we have no idea, but we also know that hair loss on our head also starts and we simply don’t buy into all the aerodynamic explanations that keep coming our way.

DHT starts to constrict the blood supply to your follicles and this starts to show initially as thinning hair leading to baldness. If you don’t start a hair loss remedy pretty soon after baldness sets in then you’ll only be able to get some hair on there if you go get a hair transplant.
A hair transplant is a pretty drastic and expensive way of hair replacement and it’s better to deal with the problem before it gets to that point. Tackling hair loss as soon as it starts is the best way of dealing with baldness – remember offense in this case is the best form of defense!
Enter Propecia – she’ll make your hair stand on end!

Propecia tackles hair loss by directly working on your levels of DHT in your body.
By lowering the level of DHT that leaves less to attack your follicles and so they stay healthier for longer.

Propecia doesn’t just do that though – Propecia actively works to stop DHT from binding itself to follicles and choking off the blood flow.