Island Life Magazine Ltd October/November 2013 | Page 85

Helping
to beat baldness
According to a 1995 article in the
‘British Journal of Psychology’, balding
men have been found to have lower
levels of self-esteem than their peers,
are less sociable, suffer more from
depression, and are less likely to succeed
in life. A 1992, survey of 145 balding
men found that 84 percent were
preoccupied with baldness.
Hair loss remedies have advanced
dramatically over the past 10 years.
Today drugs like Propecia and Rogaine
can slow or even stop hair loss, while
hair transplants can restore hair that
was lost. Current hair transplants are so
natural that even a hair stylist can’t tell.
To overcome hair loss you first need
to understand the cause of hair loss,
and then you can move on to stopping
and reversing it. For the vast majority
of men who are losing their hair (95
per cent) the loss is genetic. It has
nothing to do with wearing tight caps or
combing too much or too little.
How vulnerable we are to hair loss
or not, is largely pre-programmed into
our genes before birth, but our genetic
fate can be altered by using an effective

hair loss treatment like Propecia or hair
restoration surgery.
Baldness is largely the result of certain
hormones interacting over time with
those hair follicles that are vulnerable
to their effects. For men who are
experiencing thinning hair, their follicles
on the top of the head are genetically
vulnerable to baldness.
Over time, these genetically vulnerable
follicles are acted upon by the hormone
DHT. This hormone binds with the
receptor sites of these vulnerable
follicles and causes a miniaturisation
of the hair shaft and follicle over time
and this process of hair loss gradually
breaks down the follicles' ability to grow
healthy hair.
Hair loss drugs like Propecia work
by inhibiting the creation of DHT in
our bodies. By reducing the amount
of DHT that can affect a man's hair
follicles hair loss can be slowed or even
stopped. Hair restoration surgery works
by relocating the bald resistant hair
follicles from the back of the head to
the balding areas on top, because the
transplanted hair follicles retain their

genetic resistance to DHT and balding
they continue to grow for a life time.
Today hair restoration surgery is a one
day out-patient procedure requiring
only local anaesthesia. St James Clinic
will be offering a hair transplant
service in the very near future. Anyone
interested in a free consultation to
discuss their hair loss should contact the
clinic to book an appointment.
St James's Clinic, 68a Upper St James
Street, Newport, Isle of Wight. PO30
1LQ. Tel: [phone]

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