OVERVIEW:
Every week, we receive dozens of letters asking about the effectiveness of hair loss treatments. Here are our answers to the 15 most frequently asked questions.
1. What is the most effective anti-hair loss treatment today?
There is no one-size-fits-all treatment, such as aspirin for a headache. It all depends on the hair loss origin and your particular characteristics, but also your sex and your age. However, there are effective products adapted to each particular case. What is important is to find the treatment adapted to yours.
2.Can hereditary hair loss be neutralised?
Yes, most of the time, for women. But, even for some men’s hair loss, it is possible today to considerably slow down the alopecic process by regularly boosting the hair’s vital functions. It is even possible to reactivate dormant hair follicles, for as long as they have been so for less than a year.
3. Dermatologists only believe in 3 treatments: Propecia, Androcur and minoxidil. And you?
Propecia:
We often recommend it for young men (18-35) who are starting to bald and have a strong family history. In parallel, we recommend a local treatment to increase the regrowing hair’s strength and diameter.
Androcur:
We only recommend it in the case of serious androgenetic hair loss, especially if the loss is accompanied by signs of hyperandrogenia (irregular or lack of periods, acne, major seborrhoea, hyperpilosity…). In synergy with a local treatment, it then often yields good results.
Minoxidil: We rarely recommend it, because the treatment is too restrictive and addictive. We also strongly advise against it for sensitive or irritated scalps. Its prolonged use requires an additional local treatment in order to hydrate the scalp and increase the regrowing hair’s calibre.
4. Why do you insist on establishing a diagnosis before recommending a treatment?
The main reason is to separate triggering factors from aggravating ones, because hair loss is often the result of several factors that reinforce each other. If, for instance, you have a natural predisposition for androgenetic hair loss, a thyroid problem or a poor diet can strongly increase your condition. Understanding the whole of the problem is essential: it enables us to offer a global treatment.
5. Can stress cause hair loss
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Yes, a major psychological shock (losing a loved one, divorce, surgery…) can cause major hair loss, a short while after the event ( telogen effluvium). But daily stress can also strongly aggravate androgenetic hair loss, or alopecia caused by a lack of iron. That is why it is so important to distinguish, during the diagnoses, triggering from aggravating factors, in order to treat the whole of the problem.
6. My hair falls too much and I have already tried several treatments. What can I do?
First, have the state of your regrowing hair checked. Is it thinner than the fallen hair? Hair loss is not always the most important symptom in alopecic problems: what matters is the regrowing hair, which must be as strong and numerous as the hair it is replacing. If that is not the case, then there is a problem that will need to be looked into. In any event, do not start an umpteenth treatment without knowing the hair loss’s exact cause(s).
7. How could your treatment be more effective than the ones I have already tried?
First, because we are going to recommend a tailored treatment, perfectly adapted to your particular problem. Then, because our deliberately hand-crafted approach enables us to accompany you throughout the whole of your treatment. We regularly control your hair to measure the progress made, and modify your treatment if needed. Such follow-up analysis can be done by post (with you sending us hair samples) or at the Centre. See Testimonials
8. Why are your treatments always based on a 4 month period?
This duration is not random. Based of the length of an average hair cycle, it corresponds to the minimum time needed in order to rebalance a hair system, stabilise the hair loss and enable new regrowing hair to appear.
9. It says in forums that your treatments are expensive...
It is a common misconception against which we fight everyday, by proving that Clauderer treatments are the most cost effective solution on the market, given the quality and purity of the ingredients they use. And for those with a limited budget, we offer the possibility to pay in several low instalments. What is important is for people to begin their treatment.
10. When will a drastic treatment
against baldness be available?
In 10 to 15 years genic therapy,
applied to the hair, should be able to radically modify the baldness gene(s)’s programme. If you are a young man, you will more than likely be able to benefit from it. That is not a reason to passively wait by saying to yourself: “I will treat my hair when genic therapy is ready…” because the therapy will only act on hair follicles that are still alive. Current treatments therefore remain essential: they enable, in the meantime, to keep as many hair follicles as possible alive.
11. What are the chances of success?
After 4 months of anti-hair loss treatment: 79% of Clauderer clients notice that their hair loss has stopped or considerably diminished. 94% of clients notice an increase of their regrowing hair. And, for 70% of them, the regrowing hair is stronger (source: 2006/07 study carried out on 100 Clauderer cases). See also In vivo test of Clauderer anti-hair loss treatment
That being said, no false promises: we will not bring you back the hairs you have already lost, but we do guarantee to bring back the ones with hair follicles that are still alive. On those, we guarantee a success rate of 98%.
12. How can a diagnosis carried out by post be valid?
Because the hair is somewhat the body’s black box, and that we carry out a laboratory analysis of the hair sample sent. By combining this analysis with the answers provided in the Clauderer Questionnaire, we are able to understand in depth the hair loss’s causes, and recommend the means needed to stop it.
13. What are your products against hair loss made of?
100% natural molecules. Over-concentrated in sulphured proteins, minerals and vitamins needed for the hair’s renewal (Biothinyl-GHK formula, among others), Clauderer products are a complex symbiosis of plants, adapted to each scalp:
- They act precisely where the hair’s life is elaborated: the hair follicle and the root.
- They neutralise the hair follicle’s receptivity to androgens.
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They balance back the hair’s five vital functions.
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They bring the hair all of the fundamental active ingredients it needs to grow back.
- They neither lead to dependence nor to unwanted side effects.
14. At what age does heredity hair loss begin?
For men, it can begin as of the end of puberty. Precocity is always a negative factor: it is between the end of puberty and the age of 35 that androgen has the strongest negative impact on the scalp’s cells. The impact is then smaller, and normally progressively diminishes after the age of 40 or 45.
In women, it can begin at any age, starting at adolescence. Some periods are however more favourable to triggering the condition: they are the key moments of a woman’s biological life: after puberty, with child-bearing, during pre-menopause (after the age of 40) or at menopause.
15. Is it normal to lose hair with aging?
With aging, the hair loses some of its volume, but very little: the hair ages much better than skin does. The loss can begin after the age of 40, but should not exceed 20% of the initial density, at an older age. If your hair tends to fall in a noticeable fashion, that means that other problems are at stake, and their cause needs to be identified. In women, for instance, hair loss, at menopause, is due to an androgenetic predisposition that needs to be treated as such.
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