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The symptoms
How to react?
The treatment
International List of HRT and Rating for the Hair 
The symptoms
With menopause and the loss of ovarian-made estrogen, women lose 80% of their estrogen secretion. Unfortunately, the androgen levels only decline by 10 to 30 %. The androgen to estrogen ratio thus increases substantially.
This unbalance can lead to symptoms of hyperandrogenia (excess of male hormones), including in terms of the hair’s density. This applies to women who have, by a genetic predisposition, an excessive sensitivity to the scalp and androgens. For those women, the unbalance often has strong consequences: it can accentuate or cause a deterioration of the hair, because their feminine hormones no longer act as an antidote limiting the androgen’s negative impact. We then speak of menopause androgenetic hair loss (see framed section). The problems usually arrive around the age of fifty. But they can begin four to five years beforehand (with premenopause), sometimes even earlier. The condition’s intensity is very variable, depending on how strong the predisposition and the stress it generates are. It can go from simple hair thinning to the loss of a major portion of the hair. |
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How to react?
You will first have to make sure, via an in-depth hair diagnosis,
that it is not, for instance, a simple seasonal hair loss, or one caused by iron deficiency or a medical treatment, but truly one of long-lasting hormonal origin. The process may slow down, seem to stop for a while, but it will always resume if it is not treated.
The treatment
In order to neutralise the deterioration process, it is important to intervene precisely where the hair’s life is developed, i.e., the root and the hair follicle.
LOCALLY. By an adapted local treatment, it is possible to act on the hair’s vital functions and generate, on the zones where there is less hair, regrowing hair that is as abundant and strong as on the rest of the head. On those same zones, it is even possible today to reenact dormant hair follicles, for as long as they have not been so for more than a year.
ANDROCUR*. In the case of especially serious androgenetic hair loss, Centre Clauderer can advise you to consult a gynecologist, in order to see if an Androcur treatment is an option. An actively anti-androgen progestin (cyproterone acetate), Androcur is effective in 50% of the cases.
According to our experience, the synergy between a local hair treatment + Androcur then gives the best results: the first balances the scalp’s ecosystem back and boosts the regrowing hair, and the second decreases the androgen’s impact on the hair follicles. Androcur is usually well-tolerated and can be renewed under medical supervision.
*The name of Androcur may vary from one country to another: Cyprostat, Cyproteron, Procur, Cyprone, Cyprohexal, Ciproterona...
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On the other hand, just like for the contraceptive pill, HRTs are far from always positive for the hair. However, some of them can bring a definite improvement to your hair problem. If you do decide to follow one of those treatments, it is best to know the ones that will be positive for your hair.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
Hair Loss - Women's Androgenetic Alopecia
Impact of Androgen Hormones on Hair Loss
Thinner and Fewer Regrowing Hair
Being on Medication and Hair Loss
Daily Hair Loss: What Is the Norm?
Hair Loss Treatments FAQ
FOR TREATING
Androcur
Climen
Hair Growth and Regrowing: Where Precisely to Act?
CLAUDERER Anti-Hair Loss Treatments
Clauderer in-Depth Hair Diagnosis
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