Slowing thin hair growth is often noticed by those with in the early to mid stages or male or female pattern baldness.
In the more advanced stages there is very little hair left to observe, thus making slowing thin hair growth a much less important issue.
Why does this happen? The simple answer is that blood flow and nutrients, along with hair shaft building materials such as keratin, are cut off or reduced to the hair complex, causing the hair replacement mechanism to basically shutdown.
What is the cause? The cause is a combination of heredity and androgen hormones.
The hormone thought most responsible for slowing or halting thin hair growth is dihydrotestosterone (DHT), which is a more potent form of testosterone.
Where and how does the conversion process take place? The conversion of testosterone to DHT takes place in the hair cell and is mediated by the enzyme 5 alpha reductase type 2.
Over the course of a couple of hair replacement cycles a buildup of DHT occurs.
This accumulation is often the greatest in hair follicles located on top of the head for men, and fairly even disturbed around the scalp for women.
In women the condition is a general thinning rather than a predictable patterned balding process.
Will thin hair growth continue to slow? Yes, it will continue to slow as the number of impacted follicles increases and the follicles already impacted shrink even more.
Will slow thin hair growth reverse itself? If thin hair growth has slowed because of male or female pattern baldness the answer is no, and steps must be taken sooner rather than later, to stimulate thin hair growth.
What can be done? You will have a number of options including the use of the topical hair stimulant minoxidil twice daily, herbal solutions such as saw palmetto and nettle root, along with alternative solutions such as essential oils combined with scalp massage.
Does Minoxidil work? For some yes, for others no.
Studies indicate that minoxidil has a relatively poor track record of re-growing lost hair and covering newly balding areas.
The generalize statistics estimate the efficacy of minoxidil for achieving this to be somewhere around 20 percent.
On the other hand, if your goal is to stimulate thin growth the numbers are much more encouraging.
Minoxidil has be shown to stimulate existing hair growth in over nine out of ten instances.
It also has the added bonus of slowing the progression of male and female baldness dramatically.
What Next? There are currently a handful of thin hair growth products (specially formulated for both men and women) which have been proven effective both in blocking harmful hormones and bringing the all important dead hair follicles back to life.
These specially formulated treatments can be used both as a preventative tool, starting before hair loss becomes severe, or after loss of hair has become noticeable.
Whatever the level of balding or thinning you are experiencing these products could be just what is needed to overcome this latest life challenge.