Androgenic Alopecia Support Group

As a physician, I can tell you that there is not really much that truly works. If you have alopecia areata, steroids (lots of side effects) may help, or maybe it will regrow on its own. If you have male pattern baldness, I would look into hair transplantation or just shave it off (bald men look great if they stay in shape). If you have female pattern baldness, my heart goes out to you. Hopefully your hair is thick enough that you can hide your condition with a perm or a good haircut or style. If not, you can try women's rogaine, it may irritate your scalp but it may help. Birth control pills and aldactone may help slow the hair loss but usually do not help you regain hair. It is worth checking your thyroid and iron levels, although again, correcting these may not help to the degree you hope. Try to learn to see the bright side of things, and if you are truly obviously balding, do not be ashamed to seek out a wig or topper. There are worse things in life, I know. I too struggle with this every day.

For men, the best thing I have found is a product called "HairX" by Solaray. The cheapest place to buy it is from Vitaminlife.com

The next thing that is pretty well documented to be just as effective as Propecia, but without the side effectis, is Saw Palmetto Extract. I buy mine (the 320 mg ones of 85-95% extract) from SwansonVitamins.com They're the cheapest on the net for most things.

With those two thing, I'm seeing my hair grow back in.

For woman, I don't know... but I'd try MSM (methyl-sulfonyl-methane), B-vitamins (especially Biotin and B-5).

For more stuff, for both men and women, I'd highly recommend the book "Prescription For Nutritional Healing" by Balch & Balch, available for $20 to $25 from Amazon.com and every Whole Foods grocery store.

Best $20/$25 you'll ever spend.

I am a female who lost a lot hair from Topamax. I recently began using JASON shampoo from Vitacost.com and in just 2 weeks my hair is doing much better!