Thinking about ordering some Vichy Dercos Aminexil Men again.
Getting a bit hard to find nowadays, but I'm not sure about newer anti-hair loss products that promise to do the same thing. The Vichy stuff helped me some ten years ago with some stress-related hair loss, and given that I'm under a lot of stress again at the moment, maybe it will help reverse the growing corners above my temples. Like it actually did ten years ago.
Vichy still advertises an almost identical product for women on its web site, but it's probably formulated differently because women's hair loss has other causes. Aminexil is said to be a similar molecule to Minoxidil. It helped me, but it doesn't have the amount of clinical studies backing it up as Minoxidil.
Apparently, aminexil has fewer side effects than minoxidil. Aminexil was developed by Vichy as a solely cosmetic product because they felt disinclined to run it through the entire clinical studies process to get it approved as a medical treatment for hair loss.
Which doesn't mean it's ineffective, and it did help me last time.
>because they felt disinclined to run it through the entire clinical studies process
That sounds like quite the double edged sword to be honest.
I would imagine you can still get generic versions despite it not being pharma, but if not, I bet you can compare the men's and women's versions. if they both have the same percentage of the active ingredient, the rest will be fluff.
Of course the easier answer is to just be bald, but I'm sure this won't be the first time you've heard this here.
We don't really go fully bald in my family. My grandad was 78 and still had full hair.
What's true is that stress can promote hair loss, because among other things, cortisol constricts blood vessels, which then starves hair follicles of oxygen and nutrients. If you have no way of reducing your stress at a given point in time, then substances like minoxidil or aminexil can help treat your hair loss.
>>6769 Just embrace it - I'm amazed (but also not surprised, its another creeping Americanism breaking out fully in the UK) at the lengths some people go to to look like they have hair.
Personally I would rather go with the hair-arse-transplant direction if I really wanted hair again - hormones/drugs would be bottom of the list.
>at the lengths some people go to to look like they have hair.
I saw a youthfully dressed mid-20s lad with an actual fucking combover the other day. And the way he styled it, it sort of looked like a young Justin Bieber/lesbian haircut gone horribly wrong.
Nobody has any business wearing a combover to begin with, unless it's in an awkward 1970s-80s company staff photo.
