These Hair Loss Treatments Aren't Worth the Apparent Risk
The chorus of concerned voices warning the public about the potential adverse side effects of hair loss medications Propecia and Avodart have been getting louder recently.
The latest voice to join the chorus comes from Boston University School of Medicine whose research has shown that Propecia and Avodart, two drugs frequently prescribed to treat hair loss, can cause irreversible sexual dysfunction in men.
That sexual dysfunction is listed as a potential side effect of these medications and that physicians continue to prescribe them - and that furthermore, men are willing to take on that risk - is nothing short of shocking. It speaks to the desperation of those who lose their hair and who seek out this type of treatment that offers negligible results in the first place.
It seems that our modern culture should have evolved long past this level of shortsightedness where we undermine our most basic human functions and drives in a desperate attempt to gain back our hair. To mate, to procreate, to enjoy our sexuality is one of the most basic pleasures of being human. Why would we risk losing that even temporarily for something non-life threatening? It begs the question: Why would the FDA approve such a drug?
If you watch and analyze the marketing messages coming from the biggest players of the hair loss industry (Hair Club for Men, Bosley) you would swear that hair restoration is all about increasing sex, not taking it away. The carefully presented images of a man with a full head of hair, with a woman in each arm is undermined when we know what the women don't know. He's lost his libido. Now he has to take Viagra and an anti-depressant.
At present, there is no known cure for what is termed "genetic hair loss", or androgenetic alopecia, hair loss that is caused by a variety of genetic factors in both men and women. For this type of hair loss, only cosmetic "solutions" such as nonsurgical hair replacement will restore one's natural appearance and restore a full head of hair.
It's time to stop considering any treatment that essentially offers desperate people a "quid pro quo" approach to improving heath that silently states: "You can have some negligible hair growth back in exchange for your sex drive."
Even the best cosmetic hair loss treatment presents a "this for that" tradeoff but to a dramatically lesser degree. The position of HairLoss.Com is a no-brainer. Risking the very function and foundation of human life to gain negligible hair growth is a crapshoot that has virtually no odds of winning. Once you've paid for Propecia or Avodart, you've already lost.
The chorus of concerned voices warning the public about the potential adverse side effects of hair loss medications Propecia and Avodart have been getting louder recently.
The latest voice to join the chorus comes from Boston University School of Medicine whose research has shown that Propecia and Avodart, two drugs frequently prescribed to treat hair loss, can cause irreversible sexual dysfunction in men.
That sexual dysfunction is listed as a potential side effect of these medications and that physicians continue to prescribe them - and that furthermore, men are willing to take on that risk - is nothing short of shocking. It speaks to the desperation of those who lose their hair and who seek out this type of treatment that offers negligible results in the first place.
It seems that our modern culture should have evolved long past this level of shortsightedness where we undermine our most basic human functions and drives in a desperate attempt to gain back our hair. To mate, to procreate, to enjoy our sexuality is one of the most basic pleasures of being human. Why would we risk losing that even temporarily for something non-life threatening? It begs the question: Why would the FDA approve such a drug?
If you watch and analyze the marketing messages coming from the biggest players of the hair loss industry (Hair Club for Men, Bosley) you would swear that hair restoration is all about increasing sex, not taking it away. The carefully presented images of a man with a full head of hair, with a woman in each arm is undermined when we know what the women don't know. He's lost his libido. Now he has to take Viagra and an anti-depressant.
At present, there is no known cure for what is termed "genetic hair loss", or androgenetic alopecia, hair loss that is caused by a variety of genetic factors in both men and women. For this type of hair loss, only cosmetic "solutions" such as nonsurgical hair replacement will restore one's natural appearance and restore a full head of hair.
It's time to stop considering any treatment that essentially offers desperate people a "quid pro quo" approach to improving heath that silently states: "You can have some negligible hair growth back in exchange for your sex drive."
Even the best cosmetic hair loss treatment presents a "this for that" tradeoff but to a dramatically lesser degree. The position of HairLoss.Com is a no-brainer. Risking the very function and foundation of human life to gain negligible hair growth is a crapshoot that has virtually no odds of winning. Once you've paid for Propecia or Avodart, you've already lost.
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