Hair loss treatments are a close second when it comes to the kinds of remedies most commonly sought out in wellness stores or on the Internet. Only weight
loss remedies are able to ever surpass the consumers’ search for healthier looking, younger, and more attractive self. Cleverly marketed to men, late night infomercials and also television ads time and again bring home the point that a loss of hair is virtually synonymous with an end to life as the average man knows it:
- Dates will become a thing of the past as women will no longer find a man with thinning or no hair attractive.
- A promotion at work will be out of reach since only the young studs are considered worthy of the higher end positions, and hair loss indicates old age.
- Choice work assignments are given to the more attractive looking men.
- Even those highly athletic will no longer be taken serious because of hair loss.
It is not surprising that in light of these messages – faulty though they may be – the search for hair loss treatments is currently running rampant. Enterprising scam artists perpetrated a well documented hoax by using every day sports creams, using them to fill specially made up containers and then selling them online. Masking the scent was harder, and even though not entirely successful, they were able to defraud many a hair loss sufferer by leading them to believe that the hot and cold sensations they were feeling on their heads was actually due to the stimulation the hair follicles were receiving. In fact, hair restoration treatments are more popular than ever before.
Hand in hand with remedies that could be considered not your mother’s hair loss treatments is the use of herbal supplements that are later on found to have little – if any – effect on re-growing hair. If the name saw palmetto rings a bell, it is probably because not too long ago supplements geared toward hair loss reversal used this substance as its main ingredient. Celebrated as an entirely natural substance, the stated goal of the remedy was the lessening of the blood’s testosterone levels which were sought to wreak havoc with the hair and thus caused hair loss. Diverting from the usual target market of men, it was the female hair loss sufferer who was taken in by these claims which later on were proven to be false.
Other natural cures are leaves of the stinging nettle. These leaves are carefully collected, bruised and crushed, and then strained in spring water. Even though much of the sting is removed by the straining, the remaining tincture will still leave a somewhat prickling effect on the scalp and thus may cause the uninitiated to believe that there is actually a working remedy! Sadly this, too, is not a working solution.
It does not matter if you are choosing to supplement your diet with more zinc or less potassium, or if you believe that it is an overall lack of bodily energy which is forcing your hair follicles to suspend hair growth in favor of channeling all of the available energy into simply the life sustaining bodily functions, the fact of the matter simply comes down to this: when you leave the path of solid medical science and instead opt for those kinds of panaceas which are clearly not your mother’s hair loss treatments, the odds of being taken in by scammers greatly increases
